In 2009, two software engineers in San Francisco decided to help one of their fathers solve a mystery.
Dog droppings kept appearing in his yard, although he owned no animal. Frustrated, the man tried to set up a surveillance camera to catch the neighbor’s pet in the act. A software engineer by trade, it should have been easy for him to hack together a live video feed, but he ran into all kinds of streaming problems.
His son, Greg Duffy, looped in fellow engineer Aamir Virani. They purchased a camera, reverse engineered it, and created software that could record and display live video from multiple devices. The pair started slapping their logos on top of the re-configured cameras and selling them for hundreds of dollars.
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