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building ai into people's everyday life. san francisco.

now

AmbientAssistant an assistant that catches what you owe people and gets it half done before you ask.

things i've built

Match Monsters! a match-3 concept test.
2024
Money Dash: Idle Banking Game a later idle concept, banking theme.
2024
Shipping Life: Idle Empire business tycoon idle game, run an international shipping port.
2022
Space Colony: Idle Tap Miner the flagship title. over 1.5 million downloads.
2019
Veloxia idle games studio i co-founded in istanbul.
2019

current stack

caddy · postgres 16 · redis 7 · minio · next.js on node 22 · up 10 weeks

killed four saas subscriptions for one box that never sleeps. latency down about 75%, no cold starts, nothing ever leaves the machine, and an agent did the whole migration itself, database to domain.

press

Fast Company Middle East how turkey built a thriving gaming industry.
2024
Bazaar Times the bridge round, in english.
2023
Webrazzi the bridge round, turkish.
2023
GamesBeat monetization beyond the app store.
2022
GamesBeat a panel on breaking out of the app store.
2022
GDC 2021 my talk on veloxia's production model, "cluster structure."
2021
NTV national television.
2021
Hürriyet Pazar a solo interview, turkish.
2021
Mobidictum the turkish games industry write up.
2021
Game Developer space colony: idle dev veloxia raises $3 million.
2021
GamesBeat veloxia raises $3 million to expand beyond idle mobile games.
2021
Egirişim the $440k mobilex round, turkish.
2020
App Masters a podcast on monetization.
2020
Çıtayı Yükseltenler an early founder interview, turkish.

about

the assistant, the games and this page all run on that one machine. no cloud bill, no dashboard, one thing to ssh into.

i build alone and post about it as i go.

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