Has anybody heard of the cell phone app OpenWatch?
   It used to run at [1]https://www.openwatch.net/ and let anybody upload
   video recordings live and secretly from their mobile phone, and
   publicized them.  Page archives show it came out of Boston and San
   Francisco.
   Since it was focused on monitoring of authorities, it makes sense it
   would have struggled as this could spread power in ways that are harder
   for authorities to control, making their various tasks more difficult,
   and possibly pitting the urgent engine of control of crime against the
   project.
   I don't see any evidence of OpenWatch having planned to discontinue, or
   notifying the public they were.  There is nobody on their irc channel,
   and their twitter account has been deleted.  Their github has an open
   improvement branch that is unmerged, and no following developer
   activity since.
   Nowadays there are services like [2]https://siasky.net/ and
   [3]https://bico.media/ and some others, that can connect with reliable
   decentralized storage backed by the strength of a blockchain.  As
   blockchains rise it is becoming easier to support apps like OpenWatch
   in ways that won't disappear very readily.  bico.media may go down some
   day, but the data uploaded is still stored permanently on the
   blockchain behind it, and the app that stores that data could be stored
   on that blockchain as well.
   I was wondering if anybody knew the story of what happened to
   OpenWatch, or if anybody was interested in resurrecting OpenWatch's
   work with a little motion towards migrating onto a blockchain.
   [4]https://github.com/OpenWatch/OpenWatch-Android
   Maybe planning for disruption a little could make project development
   ideas that last longer.  Like clear instructions for newcomers to
   rebuild after developers disperse.

References

   1. https://www.openwatch.net/
   2. https://siasky.net/
   3. https://bico.media/
   4. https://github.com/OpenWatch/OpenWatch-Android