#hey u never check fb messenger now would be a good time

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ADHD Life Hack: ever get subtly stressed about replying to messages? So you avoid them and they build up a little? Tackle them when you're at a transition to something else you don't want to do. You can't do them straight but they're a GREAT procrastination because hey you're not PROCRASTINATING you're doing a useful! You're being good! It's fine that you've been sitting in your car for forty minutes, you'll just do one or two more

Today's hack is brought to you by: I don't want to do groceries

[leonarun-blog]

It's been so long since I wrote what was on my mind.

This is what happens when u stay up.. well when I post this it should be 32 hours awake just trying to get our new YouTube accounts ready and also real paper work from Amazon cuz we have a small snow bord and ski shop but we do all of out sells online since we moved out of the city. Anyway I'll tell u what guys. I haven't been on here in so long I'm surprised ppl r still on it. Well if that's the case I really came here for a main reason but also still a good hand full of other possible reasons too. So the main reason is me and my fiance broke up back in September 2018 and well got to a point it's time to open the doors back up. I tell ya one thing iv moe got a hard time doing is looking for the next one. U know. I just let it happen and hopefully they'll run into me cuz for like 24 years if been and I remember how minutely tired I was. Dating it like mildly exercising but for the brain as well. Hey its what ever I'm not saying I'm not or just get lazy about it just go with the flow of it and let time take me by the hand and slowly make our way down a road u have no idea how long it is, where it goes, or how dangerous it could get but like most chance takers out there would say

!!!!"Fuck It"!!!!

So hope at least someone out there would see my post and understand where my little story went. *sigh* you know and I'm not trying to sound desperate or needy and if u meet me in person or happen to be some of the few luckiest people the r my close friends u would know that, but hey your opinion is yours and no one can change it only u can. So I guess with all that said I'm not on here to much any more u know? I do and am on other stuff like the other messengers, streams, social media sites (not like Facebook). I'll just make a list of what I'm on way more cuz u know the most thing people keep with them more then anything eles in history and the world today. Cell Phones.....sorry just bored and feel like written a bunch of stuff and crap. So ya love to meet some new friends and it doesn't matter if you live 100s of miles away anything could happen someday and allways good to know people all around the country, especially someone like me that loves to travel and just not be bound down by stuff like a house, kids, all kinds of bills witch we all got but ya have a open mind and loving heart but allways remember our mind and heart can tell us what we need and want and what we can and can not do so think and feel on this one. Our mind will tell us we can and sometimes what we should not do or can not do. We must allways when we r at the point of letting go, giving up, or freaking out that the one thing that should have a tattoo on it that just says two letters. "DO" it is your heart that says dont give up the one that sometime we can feel a sensation of sarinaty come over us knowing we r loved in some way. The feeling of right and wrong it inspires us in unknown ways, it drives us and some say that's where our spirit, soul, vessel is at. Was going to go into something about our dreams and why the molecule in our heads named NN-DMT has such a huge role in all living things and is what creates for us a way to cope transition to the next life, world, dimension, or Holy Realm. So with all that said I'm going to leave you with this short poem I wrote about 8 years ago and also I'm just going to skip down 2 lines and attach the name of media first and then username but if I can use links instead of u retyping my user name.

Thanks for reading.....Late!

Telegram. LeonArun

Twitter. Leon183Arun

Instagram Leon183Arun

Discord. LeonArun183

My Discord server below https://discord.gg/8JKTFT

Tumblr. leonarun

Furaffinity http://www.furaffinity.net/user/leon183arun/

Howlr App. Leon Arun

Skype. leon18301

Xbox Live. Leon Arun

TikTok. @garrettturner14

2 upcoming YouTube channels witch I'll put the main one first.

(GampagE "Times Infinity Equals") I got the hole logo/Banner done. I'll attach it.

The other picture is basically my mind atm lolz

Oh also here is the other YouTube channel working on at the same time.

(Lunacy of Imagination)

Facebook, ya I know what I say about FB but on it catching up with what's going on in the family and the new town I moved to. It's a mobile site but should work all the same.

https://m.facebook.com/garrett.turner.10485?ref=bookmarks

Secondlife. Got 2 usernames

Umphery Toxx & Lucia snow

also if you want to see my other fursona Lucia. She's the cutest, sweetest, innocent, little Arctic Fennec/Wolf Herm or like a say Futa. Just sounds way better then herm. Anyways here is her Furaffinity account if u want to check it out.

http://www.furaffinity.net/user/lucia183snow

So any who if u made it to the end of this I know....NO I can feel you'll at least say Hi or *Woof* or something. Thank you for letting me talk away and u read it TY

OK Later......!

P.S. dont forget the poem I rather attached or just posted under this.

Well thought I could put a picture of it cuz its written down on paper and also on my phone so here u go

Enjoy.

"Definition of Life in the Now"

Hate we seek for the love we lose. Promises we keep in the Defection of truth. One part heaven, two parts hell, The balance tips We know this challenge well. We search for love, we search fore truth, Hurts so much to see the love we loss. Seek the answers form seer tent questions. Never spoken, never know, The cycle is unbroken The cycle slows. A heat of glass, face of stone. Question asked, answers unknown Lies and truth, the tools we use. Focus on the feelings Worlds can fuse. Life and death, living and dreaming This is a test-this is a test Only an experiment no meaning

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Hey everyone! I am Rich Clominson, co-founder of Failory, a website where we weekly interview failed startups. Today is a great day as we have just published an interview with Shaked Klein Orbach and Gilad Peled, the founders of Botnim, a web application that provided near dishes and their nutritional values. The product was not practical and they didn't validate the market. After a few months they decided to shut it down. If you have any questions, I will happily answer them below ;)Hi Shaked & Gilad! Who are you?SHAKED:Hola! I`m Shaked, a 29-year-old digital nomad software engineer. Other than nomading around the world (🇳🇱 🇩🇪 🇲🇽 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇮🇱), I've been doing calisthenics & MMA for the last 1.5 years.GILAD:Hi, I'm Gilad, and I'm 33. I used to work as an analyst in a consulting firm in Tel Aviv, but now I'm on a new path to make stuff on my own. I'm also an investor and a market speculator.As an economics student in the Hebrew U, I rented an apartment in Jerusalem and Shaked's brother was my flatmate. Later I spent one summer in Berlin and Shaked was also there visiting. We became friends and talked a lot about starting a business together, but we waited until the time was right. What was Botnim about? What motivated you to start it?SHAKED:Botnim was all about finding dishes around you by their nutritional values and location.I started getting into calisthenics, MMA and generally into fit in mid-2016. While and before doing that I used to eat outside - which is probably not the best thing do especially if you do that 3 times a day. So, after few months into the fitness world, my nutritionist friend built a menu for me and I started to cook at home.For most people, it's a hassle to cook at home, but even when they do that, sometimes they just can't get back home nor carry food & have to eat outside.This all thing happened exactly when I came back to Tel Aviv after a year in Berlin. Tel Aviv is very much into fitness & good food, so it looked like this would be a great service to have for people who care about their diets, including myself of course!Once I got to this point, I called Gilad and told him about the idea. He loved it and we started working on it. How did you build it? Which was your business model?SHAKED:Botnim started as a Messenger chatbot. The main reason behind it was that chatbots are very easy to develop. I have already been working enough time with chatbots in order to know that it would take less time to be ready for production in comparison to a website that looks good on all devices. I think that the main difference is that developing chatbots means you don't deal with UI at all, and coming from a more backend background that was a great solution, so I developed it using PHP on a nginx server.Unfortunately, there are also tradeoffs. Using chat in real time - e.g walking in the street and looking for a restaurant, seemed like an issue. Messenger's bots sometimes have slowness issues which were unacceptable. The worst thing happened when we showed the chatbot to business owners and we had to apologize for its slowness.At that point, we took some time to rethink about Botnim’s concept. After few days, maybe a week, Gilad came up with the idea of creating a map that will show all the dishes we have and allow users to filter them by different nutritional values and food preferences such as vegan/vegetarian/all.Few days after I sent Gilad a link and the map was there integrated with all of our data. This was a huge breakthrough because this time business owners loved it. I built botnim.co using PHP, jQuery, Bootstrap (even though I'm sure I could have skipped it) & MapBox - as it works much better than Google Maps.GILAD:I remember the day when I first went door to door after changing from the slow ugly bot to the map. Every single restaurant was interested and thought it was cool.Once the website was available, we spoke to our friend Naama which is a graphic designer, asked for some design improvements and she volunteered to help. At the end, we got a very nice result!As to the business model, in hindsight, it was quite a complicated model. We were counting on getting paid from 3 different sources:Restaurants - paying for showing their dishes and promoting them on the app.Users - while it was meant to be a free service, we did think some users with special desires or needs will be willing to pay for unique searches, like allergens and stuff like that.The Laboratory - we figured that since we’re supplying the laboratory food to analyze, we could charge commission from the laboratory, based on volume.Funny enough, the lab was the only source that right from the beginning stated their willingness to pay. The lab people knew that they will get their fair share either way. Coordinating 3 sources of income on the first attempt for a startup was a bit unrealistic I think for two people. As a B2B2C business, how did you validated both sides?SHAKED:The main issue starts when you do B2B2C & you only validate 1 side but not the other. We started to talk to people, either by face to face (at the gym for example) or online using FB groups & some old school forums. Most of the things we noticed were quite obvious in retrospective.GILAD:So for instance, we also started posting what’s happening with the business in a blog which was supposed to be targeted for our customers. We called it “Blasting Floodlights” - a paraphrase from a synopsis of a book we both liked, aiming at “lighting every corner” of the process of the business with radical transparency. It is hard to write, but for me emotionally what was even harder - is writing only to one side, knowing that the restaurants would want to read or hear about a totally different thing. I remember it was frustrating. It’s like there couldn’t be a focused effort to bring both sides together. Every hassle was on its own for one side only. Overall, healthy restaurants showed more interest, and eventually I planned a bicycle route with 6-8 healthy restaurants along its path, and just spent few hours going from one to another, talking to a manager or whoever was there, asking for the owner’s phone number, coming again later to talk to him, calling and nagging. You have to get used to looking to a person in the eyes and talk to him with confidence, trying to persuade him to join, and some did join or at least thought about it, but not a lot. Which were the causes of Botnim's failure?SHAKED:The main cause of Botnim’s failure is that we didn’t validate the market and most likely took the wrong direction. It is actually very simple: people who eat outside usually DO NOT care enough about what they eat & people who care enough usually DO NOT eat outside. Those who care enough, like my self-tend to cook at home & if they eat outside it’s likely a cheat day. What were the biggest challenges you faced and obstacles you overcame?GILAD:So for me, it was the dependencies. Driving 45 minutes to the lab every time was exhausting and time-consuming. And It took much time and energy talking to restaurants, persuade them to join, persuade them to pay for the food-check, going like that door-to-door, and realizing that we can’t make a progress at one front without a progress in the other. Restaurants wanted to see users, but they wouldn’t come without restaurants, and restaurants asked how many users do we have before paying for the food-check. I figured that this is not how I want the business to come about. It’s like we were a low-tech business, with just an app to support it. Of course, if we had money then a guy would have delivered the dishes to the lab for us, or we would have paid for ALL the food checks just as a proof of concept instead of asking restaurants to pay, etc. But we just couldn’t go on like this.SHAKED:I think that what disturbed me the most and always felt like a problem, was the fact that I want to keep on traveling and live abroad. As Gilad mentioned that would have been quite complicated thinking about the way things worked. Which were your investments? Did you achieve some revenue? Did you lose any money?GILAD:We had no “investments”. We used only our own money.For every dish a restaurant paid to be checked in the lab we also paid for one. Dish check cost ~$80. We later tried to reduce it to only paying for 1 dish for every 2 dishes paid by the restaurant. Then there was the gas for the car. If you had to start over, what would you do differently?SHAKED:It’s easy to say now, but market validation is definitely one of the 1st things I’d do. Specifically, in Botnim’s case, I would have checked with people what they want before assuming it, then execute accordingly. What did you learn?SHAKED:As a maker & software engineer, the most important part is not to be attached to your code. Going from a chatbot to a web application meant throwing all of the chatbot’s code and not looking back. Thinking about this decision retrospective, it was one of our best decisions.Having said that, I think that it is a good practice to have something first and then improve/change it. Which entrepreneur resource would you recommend?SHAKED:Personally, I recommend following makers on Twitter.I like hearing interesting stories and Sarah Ball is definitely someone who got them. Also Ernst Mulders - This guy was too young to open a company so he asked permission from a judge. If that's not a reason to follow him, what is?GILAD:I agree. Also, I’ve never read entrepreneurial books. I feel it’s more of a try, try again thing. Do successful people did what they did because of other guy’s entrepreneur books? Maybe, but I doubt it.I follow Andrey Azimov. He's not famous (but he will be). He's a great maker, and he's doing stuff right. Good energy & good "try, try again" modus operandi. Also Pawel from VanSecrets. He works hard and has an ultra-fantastic product which makes me jealous. Where can we go to learn more?SHAKED:Definitely active on Twitter where I also tweeted about Botnim. Other than that I have a blog and I'm active in a Telegram group called WIP.GILAD:You can find me on Twitter @giladmp and on WIP.We have decided to travel to Mexico and work from there for a couple of months.Being able to start a business with no ties to a specific location is important to us, so traveling will definitely force us to stay flexible in that regard. We have some ideas for new projects. If you’re around, say hello :) Original interview posted at https://failory.com/interview/botnim