We like to write about kid inventors every chance we get, because it’s just such a fantastic inspiration to see how kids come up with great solutions and brilliant ideas when they invent with simplicity and fun as the foundation of their product ideas.

Texas based Maddie Bradshaw is a young successful inventor with a profitable and fun story to tell. She came up with an awesome product idea when she was on 5th grade.

Maddie was looking for a cool magnet to decorate her school locker and couldn’t find one that she liked. Using a bag of bottle caps given to her by her uncle, Maddie decided to create her own magnet. She decorated the bottle cap by herself and put it in her locker. Several kids at school loved Maddie’s idea and asked her to make them a magnet just like hers. After making magnets for her friends, Maddie realized that she could turn her cool bottle caps into interchangeable necklaces. That’s how her Snap Caps product idea was born. Maddie’s idea of necklaces expanded into bracelets, hairpins, ribbons, picture frames and stationary. Maddie, her mom and her sister opened a business together and named it M3 Girl Designs.

Many Snap Caps and years later (Maddie is now about to go to college), the business is still very successful. Maddie wrote a book “You Can Start A Business Too” to inspire other kids with a business idea to pursue their ideas and be successful.

Looking at Maddie’s product Snap Caps, we can learn a useful lesson to take on our inventing journey: if you invent for a consumer category that you know deeply, your chances of success are greater. A simple rule to follow that can potentially bring you big results.

By Andrew Krauss

Source: Inventright