Homeye
Your old Android phone, as a home camera. No cloud.
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Homeye turns the Android phone in your drawer into a home camera you watch from your everyday phone. Both sit on the same Wi-Fi and stream directly to each other over WebRTC. No account, no cloud in the middle, no ads, no analytics SDK. It also tells you the truth. When the picture freezes it says so and why. When it lowers quality because the phone is hot, it tells you that too. Honest limit: LAN-only, so no remote viewing on mobile data. Free, 6.7 MB, Android 7+.
PH · launched Sep 22, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 0 views
Niche: webcam and video streaming utilities · 91 launches, 6 in the last 7 days ▼ -60% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Security
- Hardware & robotics
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Android
- Privacy
- Home security
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Could you build this?
Partial A simple camera streamer can be built, but creating a reliable zero-cloud, direct local WebRTC streaming Android app that handles device sleep, hardware video encoders, and network reconnects requires native Android and networking expertise.
What it would actually take: The app requires native Android development (Kotlin) interacting with CameraX and the Android MediaCodec subsystem for hardware H.264/VP8 encoding. The core engineering hurdles involve zero-cloud signaling over local Wi-Fi (using mDNS/NSD), peer-to-peer WebRTC connection management across variable local networks, and preventing Android OS battery management from aggressively killing background streaming services.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 410 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #338 of 411 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 235 days after the earliest competitor.
- CamMonitor · github · 2026-10-18 · 27 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Security Hub · ph · 2026-10-10 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- tellyscope · github · 2026-10-22 · 157 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Cloud Dock TV · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- homedroid · github · 2026-09-29 · 42 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- house-control-android · github · 2026-10-22 · 102 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Easy Video Downloader · ph · 2026-10-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- house-control-tv · github · 2026-10-19 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.46
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