Good things come to those who ... code
Plain and simple, I like to build things. Normally I run out of steam before a product is complete. I've often wondered about why that is. I think I can distill it down to one factor :
passion.
On many of my projects I just run out of steam because I just don't fully believe in it. For instance my last project I was going to write an app that would allow you to compare hospital prices for common procedures. I completed the back-end, seeded it with open source medicare and geospatial data. Thought I would sell it for .99 cents on the app stores. But ran out of steam when it came to building the clients. It dawned on me that never again would I embark on a project I wasn't going to be all in on.
Fast forward half a year and I am fussing around with with a few of my IP cameras that were misbehaving. The network configuration on those things are typically a nightmare, and setting up a DVR system never materialized for me. I was thinking of purchasing a couple of Dropcam cameras, but really wasn't digging the overall cost for the system. Then I thought, heck I've got a few Android devices laying around, I'm sure someone has written a surveillance service for Android. At a minimum I was looking for a discreet recording, motion detection, and most importantly cloud DVR. To my surprise there was nothing out there that fit the bill. Usually I would just move on and look for the next best thing. But in this case I just didn't want to settle. So I sat down and penciled in the first outline that would become elemcam.
