Amanda and her husband Gabriel drove out of state to South Carolina to pick up a truck bought at auction. A broken transmission sensor stranded them at a Days Inn for two weeks — stormy weather, nowhere to go.
They wanted to play coin dozer machines. They searched everywhere. Drove to North Carolina looking. Amanda spent the entire two weeks Googling, even bought extra data trying to find machine locations.
There was absolutely no way to track these machines online. No app. No map. No directory. Nothing. She was furious.
Before leaving, they finally found ONE machine. On the drive home — Amanda in the truck, Gabriel in the rental — she made a decision: "I'm going to create something to track these machines." The idea hit her like comparing hotel prices. Chirper was born that day.