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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
6 followers
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!
How does the PDF export handle disputes if the landlord claims the photos could have been edited before being uploaded to the report?
@beyzanur7jzw Photos can't be edited before they hit the report — the app opens the camera directly, and the timestamp + GPS are burned into the image the moment it's taken. There's no upload/edit step in between.
Best practical defense: email the report to your landlord the day you move in. Their inbox timestamp proves the photos existed on day one — hard to argue with. The app now prompts you to do exactly that after export.
And full honesty: cryptographic proof-of-capture (hash anchoring via OpenTimestamps) is top of the roadmap.
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.
@canerokutu35590 Thanks — that means a lot. The no-account thing was a deliberate line in the sand: you're documenting the inside of your home, possibly mid-dispute with your landlord. That's about the last data that should sit on someone else's server.
And the PDF is the whole point — evidence you own, that works everywhere, and doesn't need my app (or my company) to still exist in five years for you to use it. Appreciate you noticing!