THE ALL-WEATHER PHONE TRIPOD

Shoot in full sun.
Film in pouring rain.

A selfie stick, tripod, and phone mount with a built-in canopy that shades your phone — so your screen stays readable, your lens stays dry, and your hands stay free.

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The Selfie Shade: a tripod selfie stick with an integrated canopy arched over a mounted phone

GLARE

Readable screen at noon. The canopy shades your display in direct sunlight.

RAIN

Dry lens in a downpour. Rain rolls off the canopy, not your camera.

HEAT

No overheating shutdowns. Shade keeps your phone filming in tropical heat.

HANDS

Hands-free, person-free. Tripod, telescoping pole, and remote — no second person needed.

FIELD-TESTED

One tool for both sides of the forecast.

A creator filming on a bright beach, the canopy shading the phone screen

FULL SUN · UV 11

Glare-free at high noon

Film and frame in direct tropical sun — the screen stays visible, the phone stays cool.

STEADY RAIN

Tested in real rain

Canopy soaked, phone bone dry. Keep rolling when everyone else packs up.

ONE UNIT, NOT AN ACCESSORY

Everything built in. Nothing to clip on.

STEP 01 — SNAP

Phone on, instantly

A dual mount holds your phone magnetically or with a universal grip — works with or without a magnetic case. On in one motion.

STEP 02 — SHADE

Canopy over your phone

The built-in canopy deploys above your phone — shading the screen and keeping the lens dry, out of every camera's view. No clip-on umbrella, no extra parts.

STEP 03 — PLANT

Stands its ground

Wide tripod stance, telescoping to standing height, with a ballast hook for a sandbag or water bottle when the wind picks up.

WHY THIS EXISTS

It started at the Grand Canyon.

In May 2026, I drove my family out to the Grand Canyon. Somewhere between the glare, the heat, and the crowds, the whole idea found me.

I had my selfie stick out the entire trip, and everywhere I looked, everyone else did too — phones up, trying to catch the moment. And everyone was fighting the same thing I was: sun blowing out the screen so you couldn't see a thing, heat, and rain that sent people scrambling to cover their phones. Great shots, lost to the weather.

A few nights later, I had a dream about it. A selfie stick with its own little canopy built right in — shade for your screen, cover for your lens, hands free. In the dream a stranger walked by and said how cool it was. I woke up thinking: that's the answer.

Funny detail — on the way out there, we drove part of Route 66, and it's turning 100 this year. Born in 1926, and here I was in 2026. I'm not superstitious about it, but it made me smile, and it stuck with me.

I didn't sit on it. Within days I filed a provisional patent, and I started designing the real thing — teaching myself the CAD, printing prototype after prototype at my kitchen table, testing what worked and throwing out what didn't.

I'm not a big company. I'm one person — an engineer with a demanding day job — building this at night and on weekends. My youngest son, who's starting engineering school this fall, got hooked on it early and has been my right hand and my sounding board ever since. This is a family project as much as anything.

The Selfie Shade is me solving a problem I lived, the way I wished someone already had. If you've ever lost a shot to the sun or the rain, you're exactly who I'm building it for.

— Ernesto Novelo, Founder · Tyler, Texas

Founders get in first.

Retail price will be $44.99. This waitlist gets first access when we launch on Kickstarter, where the first backers lock in $39.99 Founder's pricing, the next wave gets $42.99 Early Bird, before it opens to the public at $44.99. Flat-rate shipping, never marked up.