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🗓️ 10 November 2025
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Tired of cables dangling each time your standing desk rises? A quick TikTok clip of magnetic rails snapping cords into place sparked a rush of orders for this savvy side hustler.
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| 0:00.0 | If you ever shop online, which, let's be real, who doesn't, you already understand how important |
| 0:05.6 | customer reviews are. You know this as a consumer, right? You always check the reviews before you buy |
| 0:10.1 | something and your customers are checking reviews as well. That's why if you run an e-commerce |
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| 0:48.2 | Lemonada. |
| 0:52.9 | Today we're going to hear from a user experience designer who loves a clean workspace |
| 1:01.0 | but hates crawling under the desk with zip ties. Have you ever tried to organize a bunch of |
| 1:05.9 | cables around your desk? You've got the computer cables and speaker cables and, you know, all the |
| 1:11.9 | peripherals and all the USB devices and all that stuff that we all have these days. |
| 1:16.5 | Well, mine is actually not super organized because I also don't like crawling under the desk. |
| 1:20.8 | And I would like it to look nicer, but I want it to happen kind of magically without a whole lot |
| 1:25.5 | of work on my part. |
| 1:28.8 | Maybe this guy that we're going to hear from today has found my solution. Instead of firing up a 3D printer, he goes online. |
| 1:35.1 | He looks around for metal fabrication shops. Within a week, he finds a Michigan vendor who's willing |
| 1:40.9 | to laser cut, powder coat, and basically create this whole invention that he has an |
| 1:47.7 | idea for. He drafts a sketch, kind of outlines how it's supposed to look, and finds this supplier, |
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