Frigate: Local AI Camera Detection

I used to pay a camera company every single month to record my own driveway. Cloud storage, per-camera fees — year after year, money auto-renewing out of my account while I never looked at the bill.

Then I switched to Frigate.

It's free. It runs on hardware I already own. It watches for people, cars, packages with AI — and it charges me nothing. No subscription. No auto-renew. It's already paid for itself.

This is the whole mindset this community runs on. You don't get ahead by working a second job — you get ahead by keeping more of what you already make. Every subscription you kill is money you stop shipping out. And money you keep, you get to point somewhere.

I stopped being a subscriber to my own life. I became the owner.

Your turn. What's the subscription you know you're overpaying for and still haven't cancelled?

Drop your starting numbers in a POST. See everyone in here kill one thing this week. We do this together, not alone. One subscription gone by Sunday — that's the whole win.

Two alternate punchlines if you want to swap one in:

"I'm not the customer of my own money anymore — I'm the owner."

"Frigate ended up cheaper than my morning coffee habit. And it can't be auto-renewed."

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Frigate: Local AI Camera Detection