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Flock Wants the Most Detailed Map of Its Surveillance Cameras Taken Offline

205 points · 101 comments · bookofjoe

  1. bilekas · · focus · HN ↗
    I am starting a surveillance company in the US. I'll sell the data to anyone who wants. I'll put cameras up wherever I like, call it protection of the people, the police will enjoy it doing a lot of work for them and then I'll point cameras squarely at my competition, 24 hours a day, 365 a year, until they ask for regulations.

    If anyone would like to kickstart let me know.

    1. ejj28 · · focus · HN ↗
      Y Combinator had no problem backing Flock, you should give them a try.
      1. bilekas · · focus · HN ↗
        Flock are competition, their investors would never like my idea.
        1. fragmede · · focus · HN ↗
          That's not how investors think. They don't want to bet on one pony winning the race. Instead they bet on the whole race, on the off chance that one of them turns into a rocketship to the moon.
          1. walrus01 · · focus · HN ↗
            I do not follow in detail the individual companies that YC puts money into at early stages (there's so many of them), are there any examples of two companies YC invested in that serve basically the same purpose and market vertical where one was clearly the "winner", or both became successful and self sustaining?
            1. fragmede · · focus · HN ↗
              Mixpanel vs Amplitude vs Heap.

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