the-machine
A fan-made, open-source recreation of The Machine from Person of Interest — MPOV on your own cameras, plus the console. With deep thanks to POI.
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GITHUB · launched Oct 19, 2026 · 86 upvotes (top 16%) · 0 views
Niche: video analytics and processing tools · 94 launches, 13 in the last 7 days ▲ +63% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Security
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- computer-vision
- fan-project
- person-of-interest
- the-machine
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More like this: all 94 launches in video analytics and processing tools →
Could you build this?
Yes A fan-made web UI with a video replay hero, camera feed grid, and console is standard front-end work, and camera integration uses common streaming protocols.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 51 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #9 of 52 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 348 days after the earliest competitor.
- M-Film · github · 2026-10-29 · 82 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- OpenVector - Self-improving AI that turns any camera into an autonomous worker. · yc · 2026-07-31 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- soup-engine · github · 2026-10-22 · 35 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- Martini: AI Video Production for Professionals · yc · 2026-01-30 · 23 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- PaperMachine · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- Pac-Man with Guns · hn · 2025-12-21 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- Loki Eye · ph · 2026-09-27 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- massless · github · 2026-10-30 · 32 upvotes · similarity 0.35
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