So we built, we turned it into a product which basically just took, you know, took this hacky thing that I pieced together and made it a little more professional, kind of work through all the end-to-end parts.

But again, that same kind of four-step workflow that I mentioned.

For the first four months, it fell flat.

Well, I mean by that is we launched in January.

I had a bunch of people that had seen the

prototype. They were super excited about it. We gave them the product, and they never used it. It was a

really interesting kind of crucible moment for us where I was just scratching my head and like

thinking to myself, am I crazy? Am I the only one that actually thinks this is a good idea?

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