Loki Eye
Your cameras, recorded on your own machine.
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Loki Eye is a super light network video recorder that turns a PC, Mac or Linux machine you already own into a private camera system. It saves H.264 and H.265 streams to disk exactly as your cameras send them and uses your cameras' own ONVIF motion events. Your footage never leaves your network.
PH · launched Sep 27, 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
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Tech
- Home security
- Security
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Could you build this?
Partial A basic desktop wrapper is easy, but managing concurrent RTSP/ONVIF video streams, demuxing H.264/H.265, and direct disk streaming without transcoding requires specialized multimedia systems work.
What it would actually take: A production version would be built in Go, Rust, or C++ interfacing with FFmpeg or GStreamer libraries, packaged as a cross-platform desktop binary (e.g., using Tauri or Electron). The complex parts are robust ONVIF WS-Discovery/event parsing across buggy IP camera firmwares and high-throughput, low-CPU disk writing of fragmented MP4/mkv streams without dropped frames. Systems-level media streaming and hardware interaction expertise is needed.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 141 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #119 of 142 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 196 days after the earliest competitor.
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