Vicinity- Expose Smart Glasses & Cameras
Detect Smart Glasses
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Details
- External ID
- 1267402
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Vicinity- Expose Smart Glasses & Cameras
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 3, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.33
- Tags
- Android, User Experience, Privacy, Wearables
Description
Vicinity is a premium mobile app that passively scans for wireless signals to expose active recording smart glasses and wearable cameras nearby, protecting your visual privacy.
Enrichment
- Niche
- rf and signal detection equipment
- Vertical
- Security
- Function
- Observability & eval
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- detection scanner for smart glasses and cameras
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Detecting specific smart glasses and hidden recording cameras via mobile wireless scanning requires low-level RF/packet sniffing, proprietary device fingerprinting, and hardware-level wireless capabilities severely restricted by iOS/Android sandboxes.
What it would actually take: Building an effective wireless scanner requires capturing and analyzing raw 802.11 Wi-Fi management frames and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) advertisement packets to fingerprint MAC addresses, OUIs, and device-specific payloads (e.g., Ray-Ban Meta broadcast signatures). Because standard mobile OS sandboxes (especially iOS) restrict monitor mode, promiscuous packet inspection, and MAC address reading, this typically requires custom firmware/hardware or jailbroken devices combined with deep signal analysis. Developing it demands specialized RF engineering, reverse engineering of proprietary device telemetry, and hardware-level network driver knowledge.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 66 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #28 of 67 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 309 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Nearcom · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Barbershops Nearby · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- spectre-csi · github · 2026-10-10 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.38