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Thoughts on software, entrepreneurship, and everything in between.
Thoughts on software, entrepreneurship, and everything in between.
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How we structured HMD Corp across four divisions - Technology, Finance, Entertainment, and Commercial - and the technical infrastructure that connects them.
How the HMD Developments team built a Discord invite tracking system that handles thousands of events per minute and detects fake accounts using behavioral heuristics.
Practical MongoDB patterns for high-throughput applications - from schema design to indexing strategies, learned the hard way running Discord bots at scale.
The architecture decisions behind Chat Guard - a Discord moderation bot serving 7,500+ servers and 15M+ users, built and maintained by the HMD Developments team.
How building a fan site for a Turkish cartoon at 12 led to founding a multinational holding company - the origin story of HMD Corporation.
The thinking behind guden.tr, why personal sites still matter, and what I plan to write about here.