Meow.camera

(meow.camera)

138 points | by surprisetalk 7 hours ago

19 comments

  • lIl-IIIl 3 hours ago
    This is an interesting looking cat: https://meow.camera/#7374059059738047159
    • ralfd 3 hours ago
      For people reading that later: a dog (pug) was feeding right now
  • isolay 4 hours ago
    Almost as good as the cat aquarium!

    https://customcataquarium.com/

    • lopatnov 25 minutes ago
      Not the same - different ideas. Cat aquarium is for cats, for their relax. But meow camera is for watching by human. From description: "It provides a platform for many cat feeders around china which can have food dispensed to them through the app." I don't understand how it's working
    • solfox 2 hours ago
      I am tempted to get a cat as an accessory for a cat aquarium
    • dylan604 2 hours ago
      There is yet still hope for the internet after all!
  • khernandezrt 3 hours ago
    If there was a button to feed them for a small donation id be broke.
    • MarsIronPI 6 minutes ago
      It's free marketing!
    • eightys3v3n 3 hours ago
      There is in the Purrr app if you install and open that.
  • dotnwat 1 hour ago
  • bovermyer 1 hour ago
    A lot of these enclosures are almost identical. There are only tiny differences. Is this a cat boarding house or something?
    • Computer0 55 minutes ago
      I believe it is a standardized feeding system for the strays in China.
  • saboot 1 hour ago
    Reminds me of the days when you could look up public camera feeds with a specific string in a google search. Some of the camera pages had controls! Spent a day with friends in a college dorm scrolling through them.
  • thoma4s 1 hour ago
    Thanks for bringing some joy to my day, I love whimsical projects like this
  • sudoing 48 minutes ago
    Does anyone know what cat feeder they use?
  • ge96 2 hours ago
    Ahhh my browser back button
  • stronglikedan 2 hours ago
    Funny that The Feline Relaxing Place is currently the least "relaxed" place.
  • mbo 2 hours ago
    man, this cat is ranking pretty high on the feline grimace scale :( https://meow.camera/#4258783365322591678 wondering how I would contact the hosts
  • junon 4 hours ago
    Several asleep in their bowls lol. Can relate.
  • ChrisArchitect 3 hours ago
    Some previous discussion from 5 months ago:

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45613047

  • stackdiver 3 hours ago
    Now we just need a cat presence detector!
    • antiframe 3 hours ago
      Isn't that what the "Feeders with hungry cats" category is? That's what I thought when I clicked around, at least.
  • shevy-java 14 minutes ago
    There are many cameras spying on cats.

    People are not concerned about private data being broadcasted of our feline overlords.

  • kogasa240p 1 hour ago
    Have known about this site for a while and it's very cute.
  • moffkalast 4 hours ago
    Every time this is posted I wonder if one could improve the backend so it doesn't take 5-10 seconds for a video stream to connect.

    Right now it's quite populated, but if I ever check it otherwise it's like this: wait 10 seconds, no cat, wait 10 seconds, no cat, wait 7 seconds, leave.

    • dcrazy 2 hours ago
      I get it, but also, it’s pretty amazing that it only takes 10 seconds to remotely activate and stream live video from a camera installed in a cat house placed on a sidewalk 6,000 miles away.
    • 0x3f 15 minutes ago
      They're in China so there's some inherent latency, but it only takes about a second to load each stream for me (in Europe).
    • buildsjets 4 hours ago
      The "Feeders with Hungry Cats" dropdown filters to the active cameras.
      • moffkalast 3 hours ago
        60% of the time it works every time. Sometimes those are all empty as well, or maybe there's a racoon instead :)
  • himata4113 2 hours ago
    I was reading that this is actually for neutering cats and that there is some deep dark secret behind these, might be something else tho.