Why I built MirrorMe

After college, I spent three years traveling the world as a digital nomad. I wanted to remember all of it, so I was constantly taking photos and filming myself against the landscapes I’d come so far to see.

I always used the back camera. The wide lens and the quality were just better, and these were once-in-a-lifetime moments I didn’t want to capture in anything less.

The problem: I could never see myself. I’d line up a shot, hope for the best, and only find out later that it didn’t come out, my hair was sticking up, I was squinting into the sun, or someone wandered into the background. I stopped posting almost all of them. I tried the stick-on mirrors, but they scratched, fell off, got lost, and needed charging. None of them worked.

So I built the thing I wished existed. I brought a prototype to VidCon and creators loved it. That sent me to China to find a manufacturer and make it real. I came back the next year, the response was even bigger, and I placed the full production order.

That’s how MirrorMe got here. It’s for anyone who wants to feel confident in front of the camera, and finally post the photos and videos you take, shot on the back camera you paid for.

— Blake, Founder, Visibly