Loki Eye
Your cameras, recorded on your own machine.
Details
- External ID
- 1261547
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Loki Eye
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 27, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Tech, Home security, Security
- Fetched at
- Sept. 29, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 29, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
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.
Enrichment
- Theme
- screen recording and demo creation tools
- Vertical
- Security
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- self-hosted local camera recording software
- Manually corrected
- False
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 — 59 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #30 of 60 (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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- Shacam for macOS · hn · 2026-06-29 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Simple Camera App · ph · 2026-09-08 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Prequel · ph · 2026-08-30 · 213 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Focus Studio - Screen Recorder · ph · 2026-09-24 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Lens · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Screen Recorder by Mamonov · ph · 2026-09-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- OmniFrame · ph · 2026-09-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.40
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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