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Hi everyone, what do you think of the following idea? I'm an American student entrepreneur who is trying to launch a flying security camera. It's an IP, 720p HD camera with detection and stabilization algorithms and recording running centrally on the cloud. It's viewable in a web browser or on smartphone. I'm launching a Kickstarter to raise money to bring it to production - Do you think this idea is totally off, or do you think it has some merit?

HAHAHA I would be so scared if that happened to me! We thought about that actually, and are thinking of adding both audio and video.

You're completely right - that's one of the first things we thought about too. It would be terrible if some 16 year old's room camera got hacked and leaked all over the internet, or something. My partner is more of the lead in this, but we would use encryption to send the data and make sure only the user is able to access the video stream. Thanks for your responses! I need to get back to work, but if you think it's interesting, we still need to raise money to cover the manufacturing costs!

They are hard to use, or overly expensive. They don't sync to your home Wi-Fi and instead create their own network. The phone UI is ugly and unintuitive. They don't have common algorithms for security cameras, or cloud storage and viewing. And they don't have an easy charging mechanism if you're away.

For our first, residential prototype, it's about 5 minutes, with 30 minute charge. So if the consumer needed to check his/her home more than every 30 minutes, this wouldn't be for them. If they need more than a short glance on their phone/tablet, it also wouldn't be for them. We're doing some work on longer flight times but pretty far away from it right now, it's hard!