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Blantantly making stuff up is a bad look, they were founded as an HOA (private neighborhood) security service. >Flock’s camera and accompanying software is gea
by WarmWash 3d ago
Blantantly making stuff up is a bad look, they were founded as an HOA (private neighborhood) security service.
>Flock’s camera and accompanying software is geared towards private neighborhoods and neighborhood associations looking to decrease petty crime.[1]
[1]https://www.hypepotamus.com/flock-safety-funding-round-growth/ https://www.hypepotamus.com/flock-safety-funding-round-growt...
- LastTrain 3d agoI’m not making anything up any more than you are. Neither of us was there. My point: you don’t get YC funding unless you have a disruptive business idea. “Cameras, but to a niche HOA market” is not that.
- WarmWash 3d agoThe 350K HOAs are hardly "niche".
- dkarl 3d agoSame thing on a smaller scale, and they never would have got venture capital funding if they didn't have an upward trajectory from HOAs. There's only one path upward from private HOA surveillance, and that's government surveillance.
- thejazzman 3d agoYC won’t invest unless you convince them you’re potentially $100B company. The scope is always the largest possible audience…
- WarmWash 3d agoWell until there is solid evidence of them wanting a government mass surveillance apperatus, I'm not gonna grab a pitchfork. I've been on the internet too long to give credence to people who resort to conspiracy when data doesn't fit their desired narrative.
- tekla 3d agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49683853#49684407 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49683853#49684407 Founders own words
- WarmWash 3d agoFrom 2017 please... Unfortunately Google seems to have removed the ability to search only in specific time frames, but the original pitch I'm sure does exist out there. There are over 350K HOAs in the US, so scaling to just HOAs would still be an undertaking
- tekla 3d agoDoesn't seem to be what their YC Pitch was https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/flock-safety https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/flock-safety > From the moment we started Flock Safety, we had an incredibly clear, boldly audacious mission ... We provide a life-or-death product, a mission-critical system for cities
- WarmWash 3d agoLinks from 2017 would be the best way to see what YC invested in, no?
- orangeberrytea 3d ago[dead]
- WarmWash 3d agoI'm pretty sure HOAs would honestly want that, and I don't think the anyone would care about pocket networks in private communities.
- HNhelpsFlock 3d ago[flagged]
- WarmWash 3d agoLet me rephrase my comment you are replying to for clarity "Yes, HOAs would honestly want plate readers.."
- orangeberrytea 3d ago[dead]
- WarmWash 3d agoI don't think private HOA networks count as "mass surveillance".
- throwaway173738 3d agoAn HOA has a lot more leeway to do whatever it wants than other local governments. They get to act as government sometimes, then as a corporation sometimes, and then as a group of amateur lawyers sometimes. They can both pass laws and try you for violating them without recourse. And IME only the most toxic people stay on the board for very long.
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