I'm Steven — a retired engineer, and a proud grandfather of five.
My two daughters are like most parents today: their phones are full of thousands of photos, but a lot of the little moments — the birthday cake, the beach trip, the ordinary afternoon in the backyard — mostly just stay there. Never printed, never really seen again.
I noticed it in my own family before I noticed it anywhere else. All those photos, and nowhere to actually put them — nothing to hang up, nothing easy to give as a gift.
After retiring, I wanted something to fill my time with — not just to stay busy, but something that felt worth building. A podcast I came across introduced me to someone who'd built a business doing something similar, and hearing her encourage others to go try it themselves gave me the push I needed to actually do it.
So Magnet Stars started with a simple idea: turn the photos already sitting on someone's phone into something they can actually see every day. On the fridge. In an office. Wherever it makes someone smile. Something worth printing. Something worth giving.
I still think about my own family every time I build something new here. If this makes it a little easier for my daughters — or yours — to finally get those photos off the phone and into the room, it's doing exactly what I built it to do.