Trash Panda Disc Golf owner Jesse Stedman sold 10,000 discs two weeks after launching them, but it was far from an overnight story.

He posted a video on the “Trash Panda Disc Golf” YouTube channel that dove into the specifics, including what made him start a business and when his business almost shut down for good. The business started with him wanting to solve a problem he encountered as a disc golf player, as it baffled him that no other manufacturer made discs out of recycled plastic.

“If I want this to be a thing, I guess it’s going to be me,” he said.

He naively went into the project thinking it would be quick, but it was a lengthy project that was days away from disaster.

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Stedman’s first step was learning to weld discs so he could mass-produce them in the future. He thought it would be easy to learn, but he said it ended up taking six months to build the right injection machine and the right mold. Even with this progress, future business growth came slowly.

“It genuinely took 30 minutes to make a single disc,” he said in the video

With the weld and mold in place, Stedman had to load up on plastic to make the discs.

“I bought 200 pounds of recycled plastic on eBay,” he said.

Stedman learned the hard way that when it comes to disc golf, some plastic is better than others. He said that TPU plastic is the best option for creating discs, but he didn’t know that when he first bought 200 pounds of recycled plastic on eBay.

Shortly after making this discovery, Stedman said that he got a lucky break. A local recycling company had loads of TPU plastic, and they were happy to give it to Stedman.

“They literally let me come in and use a shovel to dig plastic out of their big boxes and bags and put them in my little boxes and bags to take them back to my garage and recycle,” he said on “Trash Panda Disc Golf.”

He said that Trash Panda Disc Golf wouldn’t exist without this partnership.

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While discs are the objects you throw in disc golf, minis are the things that you use as markers. Once you find your disc, you have to put a mini on the ground to mark your spot. Minis are smaller than discs, which means they are easier to make.