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I'm not sure what list you were looking at, but I'm seeing many baby monitors for sale for under 20 dollars. And with 9 months to plan, I suspect that it is OK to get one shipped if it is not in stock locally. I'm just not sure how big the market is for people who cannot afford a monitor, yet live in homes so large that they cannot hear their baby.

I think deaf parents might be a better angle to take with this product, as it could give a non-auditory cue back to those parents.

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A visual LED cue is pretty standard on baby monitors, at least on the 2 cheapo ones I got on Amazon.

I also appreciate that neither monitor relies on my Wi-Fi network working.

I filtered Walmart.com by in store availability near my zipcode. What a new parent would find on the shelves if they walked into a local store earlier today and probably what they would find on the shelves at 2am tomorrow after deciding a baby monitor solves their problems. The fact that $100 is a normal price for a baby monitor even at Walmart suggests market inefficiencies. The plausibility of the arbitrage described in your comment is premised on market inefficiencies.

Please keep in mind that I described a feasible answer to "what problem does it solve?" That doesn't mean the OP's business is viable or likely to experience hockey stick growth. It's just that after a little reflection, I realized the basis for my initial dismissal was mostly "a $100 baby monitor isn't a big deal for most people I know well." They tend to have bank accounts and Visa cards and internet access.

They tend to be better off than many people I see in Walmart.

As i said the production will be in tunisia so we can have control on price .For the distribution we have two channels the first will be through online marketplace Amazon .The second through the babies shops. What do you think ? Now we want to collect data to know how american market react on our product because we're gonna launch firstable in french market and after we look to test the US Market

In the US, a lot will depend on the price point.

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