Built because our own cameras broke

The story

A perfectly good laptop — camera dead. External webcams out of stock or overpriced. The sensible fallback, “join from your phone”, breaks the moment a site demands you appear from “your device” or makes phone browsers second-class citizens. The obvious answer — use the phone as the laptop’s camera — existed, but every tool that did it wanted an account, a subscription, or shipped a watermark the other person could see.

So we built the version we wanted: a small browser extension that answers the camera question two ways — your actual phone camera, or a clean generated feed — with no account and every feature free.

Principles we ship by

• Video never touches a server. The pairing service introduces devices; the frames go directly, encrypted. This is architecture, not a policy.
• Say the uncomfortable thing early. Desktop apps are not supported. We show an on-page marker. The website is funded by ads and we say so in the same breath. If a limitation exists, you read it on the page that matters.
• Free means free. No watermark, no timer, no trial cliff. If you use it free today it stays free.
• Restraint over flash. Motion honors your system settings and can be turned off entirely. The product should feel calm.

What we will not build

No stealth mode, no proctoring evasion, no “undetectable” claims. Video calls are a place where people expect to know what the other side sees, and we design for that. The full position is on responsible use.

Where it is going

Next: the Chrome Web Store listing, the Play Store release, and 1080p plus cross-network pairing — free when they ship. The live list is the roadmap, and everything shipped so far is in the changelog.