diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 897d2d4..eea7114 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ endif
 
 # Library flags
 LIB_PATHS          = -L$(DPP_BUILD_DIR)
-LIBRARIES          = -ldpp -lsqlite3 
+LIBRARIES          = -ldpp 
 
 # Build type specific flags
 ifeq ($(BUILD_TYPE), debug)
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 7c22ad0..46fb992 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,4 +1,10 @@
-These are just snippets of the full instructions
+These are very similar to the instructions from https://git.indoodle.com/jason/bellatui
+
+Summary: 
+- we keep our repo limited to our .cpp and Makefile and .vcxproj
+- we git clone thrid party repos and build using cli tools
+- we include the headers using "../DPP/" "../bella_engine_sdk/" etc. This relative path avoids having to install systemwide libs when possible and these third party libs can get reused by other poomer apps
+- we maintain a similar dir structure for all poomer apps as they are learning apps
 
 
 ```
@@ -7,9 +13,15 @@ cd workdir
 git clone https://github.com/brainboxdotcc/DPP.git
 cd DPP
 cmake -B ./build
-cmake --build ./build -j
+cmake --build ./build -j4
 cd ..
+git clone https://git.indoodle.com/oomer/poomer-discord-helloworld.git
+cd poomer-discord-helloworld
+git switch oomer/suggestions
+```
+For a prototype app we can just dump the stb headers right into the helloworld dir for simplicity
+```
 curl -LO https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nothings/stb/master/stb_image.h
 curl -LO https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nothings/stb/master/stb_image_write.h
-make all -j
+make all -j4
 ```
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/poomer-discord-helloworld.cpp b/poomer-discord-helloworld.cpp
index d721fcf..b9cfa04 100644
--- a/poomer-discord-helloworld.cpp
+++ b/poomer-discord-helloworld.cpp
@@ -196,6 +196,11 @@ int main() {
     });
 
 	bot.on_message_create([&image_processor, &bot](const dpp::message_create_t& event) {
+		// Ignore messages from the bot itself to prevent infinite loops    
+		if (event.msg.author.id == bot.me.id) {  
+			return;  
+		}
+
 		// Check if the message has any attachments
 		if (!event.msg.attachments.empty()) { //
 			// Log that an attachment was found