No charge today. We are building this now and will email you when crowdfunding opens.
3channels: front + cabin + rear
60slocked incident clip, auto-saved
940nminvisible IR — cabin faces at night
$169early-bird, first 200 backers
Picture this: a passenger says you damaged their luggage. You didn't.
It's your word against theirs, and the platform usually sides with the passenger. Your dash cam recorded everything — but the clip is on a tiny SD card, in a camera you have to pull apart, on a card reader you don't own, in a file list of a thousand nameless clips.
Now imagine the other version. The moment of the hard brake, the camera locks 60 seconds — 30 before, 30 after — and pushes it to your phone before you finish the trip. You send it to the platform in under a minute. Dispute over.
That's the difference between a camera that records and a camera that proves. The DC-1 is the second kind.
Why we're building it
We read rideshare drivers' dash cam complaints. The same failures keep showing up:
Batteries that swell in summer heat. A lithium battery parked in the sun becomes a bulging, dead camera.
"4K" that isn't. Interpolated resolution and low bitrates — plates unreadable when it counts.
Night cabin footage that's useless. Faces invisible in the dark, exactly when a dispute happens.
Evidence stuck on an SD card. After an incident you're pulling a tiny card, finding a reader, hunting for the clip.
Parking hit-and-runs with no record. You come back to damage and no footage.
Cheap SD cards that die first. The card fails before the camera does — and takes your footage with it.
Five decisions, and why each one matters
1. A supercapacitor, not a battery
A rideshare car sits in the sun all day. Lithium batteries hate that — they swell, they die, and in the worst case they're a fire risk. A supercapacitor doesn't care about heat. It holds enough charge to finish saving a clip when power cuts, and that's all it needs to do. The part that kills most budget cams simply isn't in this one.
2. A sensor that sees plates at night — and honest resolution
Night is when disputes happen, and night is when cheap sensors go blind. A STARVIS 2-class sensor is the difference between "a car" and "that plate." And we publish the real resolution and bitrate — no interpolated "4K." An upscaled 1080p image doesn't become evidence because the box says 4K.
3. The clip finds you, not the other way round
Hard brake or impact: 60 seconds locked automatically, pushed to your phone over Wi-Fi. No card pulling, no file hunting. And locked clips back up when you're on Wi-Fi — so even if the camera is stolen or smashed in the crash, the evidence survives. The evidence should not live in the same box that just got hit.
4. Parking guard that can't kill your battery
Most parking-mode stories end the same way: a dead car battery. The DC-1 watches in low power, records on impact, alerts you — and cuts off before it can drain the car battery. Protection that creates a new problem isn't protection.
5. Cabin night vision you can't see — and neither can the passenger
940nm infrared is invisible to the human eye. The cabin camera sees faces clearly at night with no red glow, no distraction, no "am I being watched" glare. Evidence quality without changing the ride.
How it compares
Feature
DC-1 (target spec)
Typical $99 dash cam
Power
Supercapacitor — heat-proof, no swelling
Lithium battery
Night vision
STARVIS 2-class sensor — plates and faces at night
Generic sensor, "night vision" in name only
Resolution
True resolution, no interpolation, high bitrate
Interpolated "4K"
Channels
Front + cabin + rear, triple recording
Front only on most budget cams
Cabin at night
940nm invisible IR — faces visible, no red glow, no distraction
Visible IR glow or no cabin cam
Storage
High-endurance card bundled
Cheap card or none — first thing to fail
Heat range
Wide-temperature operation for parked-sun summers
Shuts down or dies in heat
Target specs, to be confirmed by sample testing. We will publish real night stills, bitrates and sensor details — not marketing numbers.
Who it's for — and who it's not for
For you if: you drive rideshare, taxi or delivery; you've had a false claim or a parking hit-and-run; you lend your car and want a record of what happened in it.
Not for you if: you only want a front camera for $49, or you want a 4K content camera for YouTube road-trip videos. This camera is built for evidence, not content — every dollar went into the minute that decides a dispute.
Why $199
Three things cost real money here: the STARVIS 2-class sensor, three channels recording at once, and the supercapacitor plus the backup path for locked clips. The $169 early-bird is the first 200 backers. Standard price is $199 — still below the $259 tier where the big-name triple-channel cams live, and those still ship with lithium batteries.
Price
$169 Early-bird First 200 backers. Triple-channel DC-1 + endurance card.
$199 Standard Triple-channel DC-1 + endurance card.
Add-ons Hardwire kit · CPL filter · spare mount Priced at launch. Cards, mounts and filters are the parts you actually replace.
What happens next
Now — validation. This page. We're finding out whether enough drivers actually want this before we pay for tooling.
Next — sample testing. Real night plate stills, heat-soak runs, true resolution and bitrate. Measured results published, good or bad.
Then — crowdfunding. Only if validation passes. Early-bird list gets first access and the $169 price.
Finally — shipping. After crowdfunding succeeds. If it doesn't fund, deposits are refunded in full.
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Honest answers
Is this real yet? No — it's in development. Sample testing (night vision, heat, true resolution) comes before any factory order, and before we take a dollar.
Why should I believe the specs? You shouldn't, yet. That's why we publish measured numbers from sample testing instead of asking for trust.
What if it never launches? Then you paid nothing and we email you to say so. The early-bird list is free.
Does it record cabin audio? Target spec: cabin audio off by default. Consent laws vary by state, and a camera that creates a legal problem for its owner is a bad camera. Final behavior is set after a legal check, before launch.
Does clip backup need a subscription? Target: no. Locked clips back up over Wi-Fi at no extra charge. If that ever changes, it changes before you pay, not after.
Will parking mode drain my car battery? No — battery protection cuts off before drain. That's a target spec, verified in sample testing before launch.
