About Us
BeTimeful is a smart News Feed eradicator that removes the distracting News Feed from all social media platforms on ALL devices. With our global platform, humanity can benefit from unintrusive social media platforms that allow us to stay connected, and productive, but NOT distracted.
With thousands of users worldwide, here are some of the results that we have achieved so far:
- ● Professionals and entrepreneurs save an average of 2 hours of productivity per day.
- ● Students report an average improvement of their grades by 35%.
- ● 83% of users using BeTimeful said that their mental health significantly improved after 1 week.
- ● Teachers and parents save energy and time fighting their students over screen time.
Our Mission
We love social media. We love the creativity and the limitless possibilities and connections that social media sparks. Unfortunately, social media platforms have leveraged people’s biggest insecurities (fear of missing out) to amass more than half the world’s population. Although providing great benefit to society, its profit-hungry mission to capture sufficient attention until it is monetized by ads has resulted in over 18% of its user base, or 226M users becoming addicted and suffering negative mental consequences such as depression, anxiety, suicidal thoughts, self-esteem issues, and others. Not to even mention the distractedness and the inability to focus for large periods of time. With BeTimeful’s smart News Feed blockers, individuals have their News Feed removed with the option to bring it back for short periods of time. Once BeTimeful is installed and the News Feed is no longer in your face every time you turn on a social media app, the dopamine hit is eliminated thereby the behavior is no longer reinforced. Users see a natural decline in reaching for social media when boredom strikes. With reduced social media addiction come improved grades, mental health, and well-being.
In addition to reducing social media distraction and undoing the mental health harm caused by aggressive social media conglomerates, we are preventing the next 3 Billion Social media users from experiencing the same issues.
Who we are helpng:
Individuals, students, entrepreneurs, and professionals
The world’s problems are growing in complexity. The required deep work to solve these problems will only increase. Thousands of students, entrepreneurs and various professionals around the world are using BeTimeful to regain their focus and work on solving the next generation of complex problems. Students and professionals don’t have to make a decision as to whether they should isolate themselves from social media for the sake of productivity or reduction in distraction.
Schools, teachers, and parents
Teachers and parents are using BeTimeful to help their teens and students disconnect from social media and focus on homework, studying, and socializing.
Businesses and Corporations
Business are providing their employees with BeTimeful’s solution to help them reduce social media distraction - saving an employee 2 hours per day on average. This results in massive economic saving for businesses and corporations as well as increased levels of employee productivity and mental health well-being.
Our Story
BeTimeful was cofounded by Daniyal Dehleh and David Ancor to solve a fundamental problem in today’s digitally connected work: social media distraction. Daniyal’s attempt to help himself reduce social media came in the form of website blockers; unfortunately, this solution made his problem worse by blocking him from YouTube (the source of his learning) and Facebook where he got group-work notifications and updates.
This pushed him to develop the first version of BeTimeful - a News Feed eradicator for Chrome. Eventually, he was joined by David Ancor, who also used a News Feed eradicator but saw this technology as a solution to his thesis on Social Media and Mental Health from York University. David’s research showed social media addiction lead to negative mental health consequences such as depression, anxiety, and self-esteem issues. However, David’s research also showed great benefits from Social Media such as that it keeps us connected, and our support circle just a tweet away. Daniyal and David, along with an ambitious team, are bringing to market a product that will allow users to use social media, and not get used by it.
Our Values
- ● We love social media, and being able to create, and connect with unique individuals around the world.
- ● We care about mental health and well-being.
- ● We can about productivity and solving challenging problems with deep work.
- ● We believe in self-improvement, valuing time, and working to become the best version of yourself.
-From BeTimeful Family