#tagback

I was tagged by @imaginekpoptrash!

Rules:

1. ALWAYS REPOST THE RULES 2. ANSWER 11 RANDOM QUESTIONS POSTED FOR YOU 3. CREATE 11 NEW ONES 4. TAG 11 PEOPLE

@notsosassymermaidqueen @soapboxjustice @sweetz86 @originalwriter03 @mangaxotomelover @talk2animals @imaginekpoptrash (tagback :P) yep...that it for this one.....more random peeps lol

1. How did you get into kpop? When?  I’ve listened to kpop for a couple of years, but I made the wonderful choice of thinking “I wonder what their names are” and actually going and looking the members up and being sucked into a beautiful abyss that I don’t want to climb out of. 

2. What is your favorite thing to do in the world? Spend time with my friends and my pets.

3. Have you ever been to a kpop concert? If so, who did you go see? If not, who would you want to go see? I have not been to a kpop concert...but I would really like to see Monsta X, Got7, and Bts in concert.

4. Do you play video games? HELL YES! Been playing ever since I could hold an original nintendo controller in my hands. Zelda Ocarina of Time is my favorite console game as for PC I love Diablo so much I have a tattoo started on my arm.

5. The last time you took a trip? Where did you go? Sakura-con 2015, Seattle, WA

6. Do you believe in aliens? Yes. I think it would be kind of silly to think we are the only beings out there in the universe. 

7. What other fandoms, other than kpop, do you belong in? Harry Potter, LOTR, Anime, Manga, Supernatural, Cop Shows, Cooking Shows (I consider those fandoms), Ghost Adventures....

8. What’s your Hogwarts and Ilvermorny  house? Hogwarts: Slytherin Ilvermorny: Pukwudgie

9. What’s your eye color? Dark Brown

10. Favorite book? Harry Potter (ALL OF THEM)

11. A movie that you could watch over and over again? The HP and Hobbit/LOTR series.

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MY QUESTIONS

1. Do you cosplay?

2. Have you ever been to a convention (Anime, Comic, Video Games, etc.)?

3. Do you play any instruments?

4. Any tattoos?

5. If you had a free ticket to go to one place anywhere on earth for a week, where would you choose to go?

6. We all have a music genre that we’re drawn to maybe because of the people that we hang around, the town you live in, or maybe it just type that speaks to your soul. But what’s your music guilty pleasure? (I love Frank Sinatra)

7. Biggest phobia(s)?

8. Dream car?

9. If you could spend the day with a celebrity...who would it be?

10. What’s a talent/skill you wish you had?

11. What’s the weirdest (or weirdest to some) combination of food you’ve ever tried?

BONUS:

              Mun Questions                                                        

NICKNAME. Jay, Xauzi, 

REAL NAME. Justin

ZODIAC.  Virgo.

HEIGHT.    5′6″

WHAT TIME IS IT? 5:33

FAVORITE MUSICIANS / GROUPS. Let’s see I enjoy a lot of music - my taste vary wildly. Panic! At the Disco, Welshly Arms, Blink 182, Gorillaz, Maroon 5, The Classic Crime, WALK THE MOON, Mystery Skulls, Coheed and Cambria, and a whole bunch of others. I just pulled these from my Spotify.

FAVORITE SPORTS TEAM.  I don’t watch sports.

OTHER BLOGS.  @growl-bear (OOC),  @thecollection-xiv (Final Fantasy multiblog)

DO I GET ASKS? Not very often

HOW MANY BLOGS DO I FOLLOW?  792

TUMBLR CRUSHES.  Secret.

LUCKY NUMBER.  18

WHAT AM I WEARING RIGHT NOW?  Pajama pants and a World of Warcraft Orc T-shirt

DREAM VACATION. Ireland - I want to stay in a cabin, and just relax for like a whole month. Japan - I enjoy the culture, I wanna immerse into it.

DREAM CAR.  1968 Dodge Charger

FAVORITE FOOD. Spicy Food! I’m a savory kind of guy and not a big fan of sweet things at all.

DRINK OF CHOICE.   Dr. Pepper.

LANGUAGES. English

INSTRUMENTS.   Once upon a time I tried to play guitar, but I never really got far.

CELEBRITY CRUSHES.   Uhhh..?

RANDOM FACT.  Hmm. I’m not entirely sure - I’m really into TTRPG - I enjoy the hell out of VTM, D&D, Pathfinder and all manner of other systems. That and roleplaying are probably my biggest hobbies, both of which I’ve done for like 16 years.

@omgpaperclipfreak tagged me.  I enjoy talking with you.

Relationship Status: Single.  Last date was in the late 90s.  I remember we went to a Foo Fighters concert.  We stayed together for a couple of months.  Now, single, again.

Favorite Color: I love all shades of blue.  Sky blue, deep water blue, azure.

Pets:  I have a black female cat and an orange tabby male cat.  Both know that I am their pet.

Last song I listened to:  War of Change by Thousand Foot Krutch.

Favorite TV show:  Breaking Bad.

First Fandom:  Kim Possible - KoGo.  Current - MaiLee from A:TLA.  Re-watched their interactions from the series.  Interesting combination of personalities.

Hobbies:  Writing - Not been paid yet to write.  beating stuff with my drum sticks.  Still a beginner. Lessons are boring but necessary.  Photography.

Books I’m currently reading:  Several old college books filled with essays and short stories.  Also books on screen play writing.

Over the past month since we launched our “kick it” experience we have heard a lot of great feedback and been paying particularly close attention to some key metrics. The things we keep hearing is:

“its a great idea”

“works really well”

“love that it pulls both our calendars together”

Which is all very encouraging, however as we look into the metrics I believe we have created something amazing that is maybe a little to hard to use, and the commitment level is high. As we look for where to go from here the whole tagback team wanted to take a step back and make sure what we are creating is something that enriches your life and friendships.

With that goal in mind, today we are launching the first of many new features to come. Over the next 2 months we are going to be working really hard to deliver something new about every other week. Things may have a more “beta” feel than they do now but we wanted to get things out to you quicker than we have in the past, and we want your feedback on everything we build so each feature will have this feedback button

Check out the latest app today. We think this first update is really fun.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tagback./id951348159?mt=8

As we work to make the app fit into your life and make seeing your friends easier, we want to know what you think or any ideas you have - so drop us a line: [email protected]. If we like the idea it might be in the app next time you open it up.

Since my last post the whole team here at tagback has been putting in overtime to deliver something we are truly proud of, and today I wanted to share that with you.

Download The App

Over the past few weeks we have given early access to our new “kick it” feature to some great people and what they have done with it is really awesome. Two weeks ago a friend of mine invited me to grab lunch with him, two friends shared a day at the zoo, and with just a few easy taps sushi girls night out were all set up. This is just a small sample of all the friends who have been kickin’ it over the past couple of weeks.

Let me show you how easy it is.

Next time you login you should see some recommendations for people you might want to kick it with this week. I haven’t seen my hipster friend Oliver in a while. Since I couldn’t live without coffee I’ll let him know thats what we should do.

Heres where all the magic comes in. Tagback will pull both your calendars together and recommend sometimes when you can meet. Say goodbye to the awkward back and forth text dance.

And that’s all there is to it. We’ll help you choose a time, place, and manage all the communication. Its super easy to add the events to your phone’s calendar. Even if your friend isn’t as cool as you with the new tagback app, they will still be able accept your invite and add it to their calendar from our whole new website.  Check it out (here)!

Thanks to all of you for your interest in our app, tagback.  We have been hard at work trying to get our beta up and running, and appreciate all of you embarking on this journey with us.  My three co-founders and I have been wanting to keep in touch with you all mighty beta-testers, and we thought a weekly “conversation” letting you know what’s on our minds.  But we don’t want this to be one sided so please respond with comments and thoughts - that’s what we want!

For this first post, I thought it made sense to give you all the backstory on tagback, and to help show you where we’re going.

Six months ago I quit my job with two goals in mind 1.start a company with my full attention and 2. spend more time with my friends. I felt my relationships went on the back burner ever since working at a higher stressed corporate job.

While on a visit to Cincinnati another founder nudged me about an old idea we had worked on in a New York office. After a couple of pots of coffee and a few brainstorming sessions, there were enough post-its on the walls to keep officemax in business for at least the next 100 years.

We took those post its and starting circulating the idea with friends, and did a survey to see where this could go. We heard your thoughts about our original idea, and shifted to focus on helping you deepen your closest relationships by making it easier for you to get together in real life.  I know right, an app that wants you to put your phone down (gasp) and talk with someone in person. With all of the tools out there now that help you to superficially keep in touch with friends (seeing pictures of their birthdays on facebook, messaging them a joke via iMessage, snapchatting a pic of you with no makeup on), we have all started to settle for anti-social ways of being social. But we still think taking time to see each other separates your “contacts” from your friends. Our passion is to make it easier to find time in your busy to be a real friend, not just a online profile.

It’s now six months later and the two reasons I made the leap from the corporate world into the startup world are both becoming a reality with tagback. I look forward to where this app takes us, and to working with all of you to make it great.