Grace Chiang, a 25-year-old student as Stanford University working towards her degree co-founded the company Mani.me along with her two other friends; Jooeyon Song, and David Miro Llopis. Grace has always had a thing for manicures, but never had time to do her nails or get them done with being a full-time student. She decided she needed to change that, so she came up with the idea of 3-D printed manicures by subscription to sell to other woman that might feel her pain as well.

To explain this app and business further, you send a photo in of your hands for the company to measure it, translate it into a 3-D printing model, print the base, put the design on it and mail it directly to the customer. It is subscription based and for two sets a month it is $50, and for three sets a month it is $70. In the first two weeks of launching their business they made over $1,000 in just their area because they didn’t want to deliver yet. It became like a full-time job for them, along with having a lot of school work to do which was the hardest part through their business journey.

Grace has always been into manicures, as she worked at a nail salon and her grandma loved to do her nails for her, and she ended up doing her friends at school until she got too busy to do her nails and realized how much that bothered her. In the first week of school however, her co-founder Jooeyon and her met each other and connected on the fact that they both had just gotten manicures. They connected and wondered what it would be like to have 3-D nails, and have artists come around the world to help design. They worked together and made their idea become a success.