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09/03/2026

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08/26/2026

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08/16/2026

Before I buy any product online, that looks like an Independent Inventor might have created it, I always ask AI if that’s true. See a picture of my question. Below is the response for this particular idea. I searched Facebook and Amazon for the product name.

AI Research
I searched specifically for the history of this category, because your instinct that Not Just Sundays may be a newer entrant rather than the original concept appears correct.

What I found

Not Just Sundays⁠ appears quite new. Its own site says the questions were written over a three-month period, and its promotional material is dated primarily in 2026. It uses 150 question cards organized into three progressive levels—Laughter, Reflection and Transformation—plus 15 faith-oriented wildcards.

There are clearly Christian conversation-card products that predate it. Two worth investigating are Talking Point Cards — Christian Edition⁠ and And Let The Church Say⁠. Talking Point Cards has a substantial established product line and says its Christian deck contains 200 prompts developed with ministry/education professionals. And Let The Church Say is another independently marketed Christian discussion game with its own distinctive gameplay mechanic.

But there is an even more important predecessor: We’re Not Really Strangers (WNRS). Not Just Sundays itself acknowledges WNRS and specifically notes that WNRS already uses three progressive levels of conversation—Perception, Connection and Reflection. Not Just Sundays essentially applies a faith-specific purpose to the progressive-depth conversation-game concept.

So is somebody’s invention being knocked off?

Possibly, but I would not conclude that yet.

The underlying concept—draw a card, answer a personal question, develop progressively deeper conversation—is probably too broad and old to belong to any one recent Christian game creator. There have been conversation-starter cards and relationship question games for years.

What’s more interesting from an inventor/IP perspective is whether an earlier independent creator developed a specific combination of mechanics, such as:

progressive levels → relationship questions → Christian/faith prompts → prayer/action cards → defined gameplay method.

If someone documented or sold substantially that same system years earlier, then we’d have something worth examining.

I haven’t yet found evidence that Not Just Sundays is the original inventor of this category. In fact, the available evidence points the other direction: it appears to be a recent Christian adaptation/evolution of an already-established conversation-card format.

Given your invention-licensing background, I think the useful next step is different from a normal product search: trace the genealogy of the product backward. I can search Amazon history, Kickstarter, Etsy, trademark records, patent records and archived web references and try to identify the earliest independent Christian creator/product I can document, along with approximate launch dates and whether they obtained any IP protection. That should tell us whether there’s an overlooked original inventor behind the current wave.

08/10/2026

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08/10/2026

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08/09/2026

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07/14/2026

Swiped is a 2025 biographical drama film that dramatizes the creation of major dating apps like Tinder and Bumble, focusing on the real-life journey of Bumble founder Whitney Wolfe Herd.

Directed by Rachel Lee Goldenberg, the movie stars Lily James as Wolfe and is currently streaming on Hulu in the U.S. and Disney+ internationally.Plot and Real-Life InspirationThe 1 hour and 50-minute film tracks Wolfe's early career:Tinder Origins: It follows her time as an executive at MatchBox (which was later rebranded as Tinder), where she cracked the college campus marketing and saw the app's user base explode.Controversy & Creation: It depicts the rampant sexual harassment and toxic workplace environment she endured, leading her to leave the company.Bumble: She ultimately used this adversity to break into the male-dominated tech industry and launch Bumble, an innovative platform where women make the first move, paving her way to becoming a billionaire.Cast and CrewDirector: Rachel Lee GoldenbergWriters: Bill Parker, Rachel Lee Goldenberg, and Kim CarameleMain Cast: Lily James as Whitney Wolfe, alongside Dan Stevens, Jackson White, Myha'la Herrold, and Ben SchnetzerCritical ReceptionThe film received mixed reviews, holding a 44% critical approval rating and a 46% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. Critics generally praised the compelling true story and Lily James's performance, but noted that the ex*****on often felt formulaic and surface-level. Discussions across platforms like Reddit show a consensus that while it is an interesting watch, the glossy Hollywood packaging didn't fully capture the complexity of the subject.For a look into the story that inspired the film and Whitney Wolfe Herd's real-life experiences in the tech world:

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07/05/2026

Don’t worry about the future.
AI, Brain Machines and UFO lore will fix everything.
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Extensive research enables scientists to develop machines that can increase human mental abilities, including telepathy (mind communication) and telekinesis (moving things with the mind). For instance, the brain-machine interface (BMI), electroencephalogram, and mind-controlled video games are some newly invented brain machines, and many are in the works!

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07/04/2026

Carrie Jeske has always been one to strive. In some ways, she believes nothing has come easy for her. In other ways, she was born into great blessing. Life Times is a collection of poems beginning when she was 15 years old. That year, she experienced the death of her beloved Papa and was exposed to Emily Dickinson poetry. At the same time, Carrie began to search for meaning beyond the superficial behavior of herself and her peers. The next mix of events would forever change her; or awaken her, into a woman who strives to achieve with a deep compassion for the perils of humanity and the snares that so easily entangle us, as humans.

Life Times is thought provoking and contemplative.

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Carrie Jeske has always been one to strive. In some ways, she believes nothing has come easy for her. In other ways, she was born into great blessing. Life Times is a collection of poems beginning when she was 15 years old. That year, she experienced the death of her beloved Papa and was exposed ...

07/03/2026