Hey Product Hunt 👋 When I was a kid, my sister and I buried a biscuit tin in the garden. Drawings, a cricket card, a note to whoever dug it up. We drew a map, lost the map, and dug up half the garden trying to find it. That tin is still down there. I’ve thought about it more than any photo in my camera roll. And I think I know why. Everything on my phone is one tap away, so none of it feels special. The tin mattered because it was somewhere. You couldn’t open it from the sofa. Vantage Point is the app version of that tin. You bury a capsule (text, photos, audio or video) at a real place and lock it to an object you scan there. To open it, you go back, and the camera has to recognise what you left it with. You can seal capsules for years, or share one with a friend at exact coordinates, a rough area, or no coordinates at all so they have to work it out. How it evolved while building it: My first version used a simple countdown on the phone. Then I realised a reinstall would quietly wipe it. Time locks are now enforced on the server. I started with standard geofencing, which needs background location. That felt wrong for an app about personal memories, so I wrote my own proximity check that only runs while the app is open. Early object matching unlocked on “close enough,” which killed the magic. It now only opens when it’s properly convinced. Everything is encrypted on your device before it leaves, with a recovery phrase so you don’t lose your vault when you change phones. It’s on Android today. [Launch day offer, e.g. “Product Hunt folks get X free for the first month.”] I’d love to hear one thing from you: what would you bury, and where? I’ll be here all day answering questions. Akshit

Vantage Point

Time capsules you can’t open from the sofa

Time capsules you can’t open from the sofa