Lookup
Ask Video Anything
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Ask Video Anything
259 followers
Lookup turns raw footage into structured answers, proof clips, and automations with just a few lines of code. From counting people to compliance checks, it makes video searchable and programmable—this will help any app see.
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👋 Hey Product Hunt!
I’m Ajay, co-founder of Lookup, and today we’re launching.
The problem:
Most vision products are narrow. They optimize for one thing — safety, checkout, traffic — and stop there. But vision is only valuable when it’s inside another product. As a superpower.
If you’re a dev or PM, you don’t want a “vision startup.”
You want your app to see. So it can improve metrics and outcomes on its own.
What Lookup does:
👉 Upload or connect video
👉 Ask a question in plain English
👉 Get structured answers — counts, timelines, events — with proof clips you can trust.
We hide the heavy lifting (detection, tracking, reasoning). You just call the API.
How it works:
Lookup runs a cascade of models (motion → detection → video-language).
We store results in:
– Object DB: what + where
– Temporal DB: when + order
Together, video becomes queryable like a database. See once, remember forever.
Who it’s for:
⚡ Product / FDE / Dev teams — add “eyes” to your app, build your app workflow on top of vision.
Why now: Cameras are everywhere. Storage is cheap. What’s missing is a layer that makes video useful for any product. Lookup is that layer.
Who we are:
We’re second-time founders in video AI.
– At OurEye.ai (YC W22) we scaled to 1,500+ deployments.
– At AvairSense, our AI camera hit 1,000+ homes.
We learned one thing: computer vision only wins when it disappears into the workflow. Lookup is that lesson, turned into a platform.
Playground:
Try it yourself. Upload a video, ask questions, see answers. No training. No labeling. Just truth from video.
👉 If your app could see, what would you build?
We’d love to hear. 🚀
Shoutout to @thisiskp_ for hunting us. Also @zaczuo and @rohanrecommends for the help.
@ajaykumar1018 huge shoutout to the team lookup is going to save me hours
Thanks@subash_yadav1, great to hear Lookup’s saving you hours, that’s the goal
@subash_yadav1 @ajaykumar1018
This is great to hear
Will it be possible to upload a YouTube link (or any kind of link from a third-party platform) instead of only uploading the file?
@busmark_w_nika not yet :( but we will be building that soon
@sourav_sanyal4 I think it would be a useful addition :)
@ajaykumar1018
What if the video data is too large to upload or query via your cloud API. I'd imagine this indexed data could get unwieldy real fast. What if the organization wasn't comfortable sharing their sensitive video footage to the cloud? Do you have a plan in the roadmap to do all of the processing and indexing at the customer's edge or customer-managed cloud and giving them full data sovereignty and visibility into their indexed data without leaking the data and metrics to the big boys? I'm sure there are all sorts of privacy and multi-tenancy laws to adhere to if this system is hosted in the cloud especially for enterprise live cameras. For example, Illinois has stringent facial recognition and associated biometrics laws in place to analyze footage without consent
@anand_setlur Great question! We’re already building for both modes: a hosted cloud API for teams that want speed to market, and an edge / customer-managed deployment for orgs that need full control and data sovereignty. Mode of development can vary as per orgs preference.
Privacy and compliance are core to our roadmap, we don’t do biometric identification and our design is around public regulations from day one.
very cool!
how long of videos do you support right now?
also, does it provide timestamps for given events?
@itspsneha the video memory is unlimited, and it does provides timestamps for every event and clip :)
This looks cool!! Can we run this over a live stream of video and get structured output for further processing?
@tt_omkar Yup, you can run it on live streams using a RTSP link, and for output format, you can define your own structured output format or just get plain text answers
hey amazing product I often use Gemini 2.5 pro video understanding for the same task, I dint get it is it open source? if commercial how your API pricing fares against other LLMs
Thanks @vatsmi , Lookup isn’t open source, it’s a commercial API. Pricing is competitive with LLMs, and unlike them we support unlimited memory understanding
Wow! This is what I was looking for. Excited to leverage the vision capability in our product. Let me loop in our tech team
@shubham16180 Great to hear that. Excited to see how your team puts it to use, happy to help with the integration 🙃
@shubham16180 thanks Shubham