Alibi

A DVR for your life

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A DVR for your life

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HeyUpdate

Interesting concept. I want something like this for my Mac. Use case is when testing software if a bug is found you can save the screen recording from the past 10 minutes to help with reproducing the bug. Still yet to find anything.

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12yr ago

Pivot

@tompedals I'd love to know if you find something that does that - would be incredibly handy.

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12yr ago

@tompedals some of the cloud ide's have this functionality. i haven't used any of them much, but i know that icloud9 has a fully rewindable environment. also, just thinking out loud here, there might be something emmet related for sublime text. emmet is pretty badass and one day hope to fully pimp out the functionality. just some thoughts.

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12yr ago

Automatic Selfie App

@tompedals that's fantastic idea!

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12yr ago

Sticky Fingers

How does the video capture work? Does it know when the phone is in or out of your pocket? Also how is the audio quality if the phone is in your pocket?

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12yr ago

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Maker

@jameswilsterman Audio quality from the pocket is surprisingly useful. Video still runs while in your pocket, but we're considering an update to run a little computer vision on one frame every few seconds and to pause video capture whenever it seems like the phone is in your pocket (if a frame is pure black).

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12yr ago

Product Hunt

@jeffmyers123 where'd this idea come from? I'm halfway hoping you have dramatic, personal backstory that inspired this. 😄

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12yr ago

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Maker

@rrhoover That story is nsfw

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12yr ago

Product Hunt

@jeffmyers123 at least tell us the PG-13 version. :)

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12yr ago

Gatsby

Maker

@rrhoover Just kidding. My co-founder thought of it after an unreasonable traffic stop. The initial idea was to create a piece of hardware for your dashboard (basically an always-on dash cam), but we realized we could accomplish it with an Android device.

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12yr ago

Waldo

@jeffmyers123 Cool idea -- love the idea of using a software-based solution over buying additional hardware, and everything else I'd seen in this space is hardware-based (Narrative Clip [http://getnarrative.com/], MeCam [http://www.mecam.me/], and Parashoot [http://www.theparashoot.com/]). Two questions for you: how's the effect on phone battery, and branding-wise, looks like you guys are going for more of the "protect yourself" vibe than life-logging vibe -- is safety primarily the purpose you're seeing people use it for, or have there been other use cases?

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12yr ago

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Maker

@wtwht Battery drain isn't bad, but we default to image capture rather than video. Video will have maybe 20% drain, anything else is unnoticeable. We've been leaning on the safety and accountability features of this, but life-logging is super interesting to me too. Would love to hear how people find uses for this!

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12yr ago

Backchannel

especially with everything happening recently re: police brutality and putting cameras on cops. who needs lie detectors if everything's recorded? you could just check your alibi :)

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12yr ago

Kinda reminds me of episode 3 of Black Mirror: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The...

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12yr ago

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Maker

Thanks Ryan! We wanted to turn phones into body cameras, or DVR's for our lives. We worked hard to keep it unobtrusive, and to minimize battery consumption. Hopefully this can keep us all more accountable. Feedback is welcome :)

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12yr ago

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