Some Denver small business owners breathe a sigh of relief Sunday as TikTok, the popular video-sharing social media platform, was restored hours after going dark Saturday night because of its federal ban, which President-elect Donald Trump promised he would pause Monday.

“I can’t help but to think about small businesses, like mine, who rely on the TikTok app,” Alejandro Flores-Munoz, a TikTok personality whose local Denver business benefited from the app, said.

On Sunday, Trump vowed to issue an order upon his inauguration Monday to give TikTok’s China-based parent company, ByteDance, more time to find a buyer before the ban takes full effect. Already, Google and Apple removed the app from their digital stores to comply with the law, which required them to do so if ByteDance didn’t sell its U.S. operation by Sunday. The law, which passed with bipartisan support in April, warns of steep fines.

When most TikTok users in the U.S. tried to open the platform Saturday night, they saw a pop-up message under the headline, “Sorry, TikTok isn’t available right now.”

“It’s been a roller coaster, for sure,” Flores-Munoz, with nearly 66,000 followers on TikTok, said of the previous 12 hours.

TikTok’s ban has sparked public outrage, namely from users, creators and small business owners who benefit from the app.

Flores-Munoz, owner of a local Denver food delivery service Combi Cafe, or Combi Taco, is among seven million U.S. small businesses who utilize TikTok as a marketing tool.

“Social media influence and the power it has on our community is relevant,” Flores-Munoz said. “We need to understand that importance … I rely on it to promote my catering business.”

Combi Taco offers taco food trucks and catering services. Flores-Munoz, alongside his crew of six employees, also prepares 300 meals per week for a Denver-operated homeless shelters.

“It’s not only my business that I was benefiting from the app for new clients and getting in front of people, but I also think of myself sharing how others can start a small business,” Flores-Munoz said. “You have people on the platform who are gardeners, who do car washes, who do food and they rely on showcasing their work.”

Tyler Kanwai, a Denver native, said he wouldn’t have been able to grow his business, TKs Surf & Turf in far southeast Denver, without TikTok.

“TikTok has put us in front of the masses each and every day,” Kanwai said. “You know, we ask customers where they’ve heard about us … 90% of the time it is TikTok.”

When opening TikTok on Saturday night, Kanwai said it was “heartbreaking” to see it inactive.

“Tiktok was the vehicle to expose my business to not only the state of Colorado as a whole, not even on the national level, it took us worldwide,” he said, adding the app has drawn people not only from the state, but from across the world while touring Colorado.

Kanwai’s local seafood eatery has over 26,000 followers with millions of views on TikTok. The app, he said, has led him to serve “some of the best seafood in the nation” and progress at his seafood restaurant in Denver.

“I always tell people that TikTok is like being in the room with the world,” Kanwai said. “But honestly, I was praying. I was praying that the ban wouldn’t take place, you know, because TikTok has been such a blessing to my business.”

The Associated Press contributed to this report.