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TECH CorroboratedEvidence tiers: Early signal = 1 uncorroborated request — treat as radar, not a validated opportunity · Corroborated = 2-3 requests · Validated = 4+ requests from 2+ different people. Every count appears exactly once, in the fact bar below — each traces to a real source post.

Private Security Camera

2
builder posts asking
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2
different people asking
across 1 platform
who →
4
rivals shipping · web scan
how verified →

In their words

"I need to set up an exterior camera that stores or streams video off-device, but I can't have it talking to uncontrolled servers" — a builder, verbatim · sign in free to trace the source ↗

What they tried & dropped

Extracted word-for-word from the evidence posts below — every item is quoted verbatim from a real builder.

Nest Cam (IQ) — "prone to remote hacking and expensive" verbatimsign in to trace ↗
Nest — "talks to uncontrolled servers" verbatimsign in to trace ↗
Ring — (no stated shortcoming) sign in to trace ↗

Hard requirements

Non-negotiables stated by builders in their own words. Miss one and they will not switch.

open sourceself/cloud hostedself-hosted

Competitor pricing

Named rivals & real prices 🔒
Rivals charge $105.59/mo · names — log in ↗

How we checked

Where we searched
3 sources · GitHub (open-source check) · App Store · SaaS marketplaces
Verification funnel
51 raw matches scanned, then AI-de-duped · see the breakdown below
Last scan
13d ago · auto-refreshed every 30 days

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Every source post · named rivals with real prices · what builders tried & dropped · quantified pain — all traceable to the original posts

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What the numbers suggest

4 rivals shipping (fact bar) how verified → market is crowded; differentiate on the unmet requirements above, don't compete on breadth.
2 requests from 2 different people (fact bar) see posts → demand is independently reported, not one person repeating themselves.
2 demand signals vs 4 shipping rivals → supply already outweighs demand — enter only with an edge.
0 willingness-to-pay quotes yetno one has named a price — validate pricing before building.

Signal history

2 posts on record since Jul 2017 — not enough to plot a trend. We plot history once a gap has 3+ posts spanning 3+ weeks.

Evidence pool

2 source posts on record — each insight links back to a real one.

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