Cradlebird

About

A purpose-built mobile app that turns any certified off-the-shelf Wi-Fi camera into a full-featured baby monitor — cry detection, two-way audio, night vision, multi-caregiver pairing, sleep timeline, temperature and humidity — with no subscription, no cloud video storage, and no account required. The entire pitch is a single line: your baby, your data, your home.

The brand name was locked 2026-04-13 and cradlebird.com is secured. The project is in scoping phase — logo, app build, and launch date are pending.

Why This Exists

The Wi-Fi baby monitor category has drifted into a hostile pattern: premium hardware gated behind recurring subscriptions for features parents thought they were buying once. All footage lives on the vendor’s servers. The alternative — radio monitors like Infant Optics — avoids subscriptions but ships without an app, no remote view, no event history.

There’s a gap in the middle: a Wi-Fi-connected, app-driven, no-subscription, local-first nursery monitor. That’s the product.

Technical Highlights

• React Native + Expo SDK 54 with TypeScript end-to-end, building on the ViewPane codebase
• RTSP + ONVIF camera integration with per-vendor shims for Reolink, TP-Link Tapo, and Amcrest
• On-device cry detection via TensorFlow Lite (YAMNet-derived classifier) — no audio ever leaves the phone
• Two-way audio push-to-talk and hands-free, implemented over the camera’s native audio session
• BLE pairing for Aqara / SwitchBot temperature and humidity sensors
• Tailscale-based remote access — user-installed, encrypted, and never in our server path
• expo-secure-store for credentials and pairing keys in native keychain / keystore
• expo-iap one-time $24.99 purchase — no subscriptions, ever
• EAS Build + Submit pipeline for iOS and Android
• Sentry crash reporting with PII scrubbing on by default
• Minimal backend — Supabase and a Cloudflare Worker handle only waitlist capture, Amazon affiliate resolution, and store receipt validation. No video ever touches our servers.

Hardware Strategy

Path B — a certified-camera list. Parents buy the camera they like (Reolink E1 Pro, Tapo C210/C220, Amcrest ASH21-W, and others) from Amazon, and our app makes it work as a nursery monitor. Zero inventory, zero MOQ, zero fulfillment. Total customer spend lands between $60 (budget) and $155 (two-camera premium) — every scenario below a single Nanit’s sticker price and zero recurring cost after.

Revenue Model

One-time $24.99 app purchase on both stores. Amazon affiliate revenue as a secondary channel on the certified-camera links. No subscriptions. No ads. No data broker deals.

Privacy Architecture

• All video lives on the customer’s local network, never on our servers
• All ML inference runs on the phone or inside the camera — no cloud inference, ever
• Store declarations: “No data collected” on both Apple App Store and Google Play
• No ad-tech SDKs (no Meta SDK, no AppsFlyer, no Branch)
• Camera credentials and pairing keys stored in native Keychain / Keystore
• Tailscale remote access is optional, user-installed, and end-to-end encrypted

What Makes It Different

Most baby monitor apps are either a subscription trap with a pretty UI or a radio monitor with no app at all. This product is a one-time purchase that works with cameras the customer already owns or can buy for under $80, stores everything at home, and will never be sold to a company that adds a subscription later. The architecture makes that last promise enforceable, not aspirational.