OffgridCam
Private home camera. Local video. Alerts anywhere.
Details
- External ID
- 1248205
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- OffgridCam
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 15, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- iOS, Privacy, Home security
- Fetched at
- Sept. 16, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 16, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
Description
Turn two iPhones into a home or baby camera — direct over WiFi, no account, no server, no subscription. Available now on the App Store.
Enrichment
- Theme
- personal and family tracking tools
- Vertical
- Security
- Function
- Hardware & robotics
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- privacy-focused local video security camera for homeowners
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Creating a standard iOS app UI is simple, but reliable peer-to-peer WebRTC/local streaming, hardware camera optimization, and battery/thermal management require deep systems engineering.
What it would actually take: The app requires an iOS stack using AVFoundation, Network.framework / Multicast DNS (Bonjour) for local discovery, and WebRTC or custom RTSP/SRTP pipelines for low-latency streaming. The primary challenge is maintaining low-latency, continuous video streaming across varied local network configurations without overheating older iPhone hardware or dropping connections in the background. Specialized mobile systems and audio/video streaming expertise is necessary to build a rock-solid zero-server camera.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 190 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #101 of 191 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 321 days after the earliest competitor.
- TetherCam · ph · 2026-09-11 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.51
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- Log Cam: RAW 4K Video Camera · ph · 2026-09-29 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Lumixi · ph · 2026-09-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- iPhone app takes simultaneous images from 2 lenses, fuses into 1 photo · hn · 2026-08-08 · 329 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Simple Camera App · ph · 2026-09-08 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- LibreCam: Manual RAW Camera for iPhone · ph · 2026-09-27 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.44
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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