projects

Things I make next to my day job. A YouTube channel, a podcast, a few small open-source tools and some older writing.

• 2026-10tv prompterweekend projectA free, open-source teleprompter for Android TV. The TV shows a little address, you paste your notes there from your phone or laptop, and it scrolls them very slowly.
• 2026-10glowweekend projectA free, open-source Mac menu bar app for Philips Hue lamps. Click to switch, drag to dim and right-click for colors, without Siri, Alexa or your phone.
• 2026–nowmerbil.fmsolo projectMy YouTube channel of Turkish monologues on tech, modern life and adulthood, made on a low effort, high context rule.
• 2025-09işte promiyer ligcommunity projectA small website for our Fantasy Premier League mini-league, with live standings, prize periods and every lineup, built on the FPL API and GitHub Pages.
• 2025–2026berbat teknolojiler (terrible tech)podcastA 20-episode Turkish podcast I co-hosted with designer Çağdaş on the dux YouTube channel, about modern failures and tech that was supposed to be better.
• 2019wardrobe geniemaker contestA daily outfit picker I built on Coda for Product Hunt's 2019 Makers Festival, a no-code contest. It won the Life Hacks category and a Golden Kitty.
• 2017–2018hypeoldunewsletterMy Turkish newsletter and blog about media, tech and hype, from 2017 to 2018. 106 posts, still online.
• 2017-04apsiyon's first design sprintcase studyMy write-up of Apsiyon's first GV-style design sprint, which I facilitated in 2017, published in GV's Sprint Stories on Medium.