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DepositCam
Timestamped photo proof that gets your deposit back
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Timestamped photo proof that gets your deposit back
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DepositCam guides renters room by room through photographing their rental at move-in or move-out. Every photo gets the date, time, and GPS burned into the image. Export a dispute-ready PDF your landlord can't argue with. No account, photos never leave your phone.
Does the PDF include which device took each photo or some kind of tamper-proof verification, or is the timestamp and GPS alone what holds up in a dispute?
@kenanbilalbfyw Right now it's the timestamp + GPS, burned into the image pixels at capture (not EXIF metadata, which is easy to edit and often stripped when photos get shared). No device fingerprint or cryptographic verification yet.
For where these disputes actually get decided — small claims — that's typically enough. The standard is "more likely than not," and a renter with an organized, dated, room-by-room report is usually up against a landlord with no documentation at all. The stamp being in the pixels also means it survives email/messenger compression, unlike metadata.
But you're right that it's not tamper-PROOF, and I don't claim it is. Cryptographic verification is the top of my roadmap: hashing each photo and anchoring it with a trusted timestamp (looking at OpenTimestamps) so a third party can independently verify "this exact image existed on this date." That's the difference between documentation and evidence-grade proof.
Curious whether you've seen a dispute where verification level actually mattered — that kind of detail helps me prioritize. Thanks for digging into it!
The local-only photos approach is genuinely thoughtful—plenty of apps treat your move-in docs like marketing data, so this feels like it was built by someone who's actually been through a deposit fight. Love that it spits out a PDF instead of forcing yet another login.