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What happens within inventor is they realize a problem, but they're worried that it's just them. You know, it's like, hey, maybe I'm just paranoid or I'm anal, or I'm just such a unique snowflake that I'm the only person that has this issue. At which point did you realize that you know what, this is not just me, this is widespread.
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As soon as I started telling friends, and I know some people are afraid I don't want to share my ideas gonna get stolen. Soon as you file is called first to file your provisional patent you have a year. And I did that, within weeks of inventing this and getting samples made and I ordered 1000 samples from the little factory in Georgia. We had stickers made that had the word either party pocket or pocket pals. That was the name, the original name. And we had patent pending. So we just started going to little vendor shows and had a big spinner rack and it had all the little colors purples and greens and blacks and grays. People were buying 567 at a time. Wow. And they the most have sold to a couple different people. But it is a company
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this was your it's about your friends and family. This is like complete
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strangers at you know little vendor shows Christmas shows. And I would just stand you know, and show the idea and say, Hey, your phone, and they are still using those original ones, I'll bump into people or they'll send me a quick text pictures. And this is still on our boat. This is still in our car. They've had them three years, four years, five years. And people they would buy the most have sold is 10 at a time, they would walk out with their arms, they'd have every color and every design and just they would buy 10 at a time. And they're going to put them in all their cars, give them all the kids bedrooms. And you can easily have 10 in your house. We must have 10 in our house at least. Then you have your phone everywhere you go and then you just have your little routine of okay, it's in the kitchen or beside the bed or in the bathroom. You just know. So that's how I knew I just kept like, wow, these people. So then that's when I said I've got to get more made, like larger volume and this little factory could do