Tell HN: We built a solar-charging wireless backup camera for your car

$400! No thanks

OP dun goofed. This is redundant for cars but would be marketable on pretty much everything bigger than a car. IMO you should target RVs, fleet truck/vans and people towing trailers with this.

As others have mentioned, too expensive and too late for cars.

Pickups and vans have longer service lives and IIRC some are exempt from the camera thing. People who DD small cars tend to suck at backing big stuff (like company trucks).

Using it as a rear dashcam could help reduce liability (e.g. "my driver didn't back into your fence and I have video to prove it"

Putting this on a trailer would make it easier to back into tight spaces with precision.

Since it's wireless and a self contained unit it could be marketed for use on boat trailers as well

A fleet that deploys these could easily swap them from vehicle to vehicle with near zero cost.

RVs suck to back, camera makes that less so. There's also a lot of older RVs out there since they depreciate so much they tend to get passed through lots of owners and stick around a long time. A $500 camera can be swapped from RV to RV and is an easy upsell when someone buys a used RV that they're likely planning on sinking some $ into

You also can't see behind you very well with an RV. If you're towing a trailer with ATVs, a small boat or something you can't see if it's back there unless you get out and check.

The list goes on...

hahaha, funnily enough these guys are all ex-apple and I immeadiately assumed they were going for the Apple page feel. I didn't like the apple mac redesign but it is a lot more intuitive than this page, as after most of the animation you are dropped back into a normal page scroll and it is reasonably intuitive when you are scrolling vs. animating. I found it annoying but at least I could grep what was happeneing