Umut Güden Blog https://guden.tr Personal site of Umut Güden, Founder and Chairman of HMD Corporation. Software engineering, entrepreneurship, and business. en-gb Sun, 05 Apr 2026 18:50:13 GMT <![CDATA[Finding Balance in a Busy Schedule]]> https://guden.tr/blog/finding-balance-in-a-busy-schedule https://guden.tr/blog/finding-balance-in-a-busy-schedule Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Startup <![CDATA[Designing Your Site for AI Agents: llms.txt, RSS, and Semantic HTML]]> https://guden.tr/blog/ai-agents-and-personal-sites https://guden.tr/blog/ai-agents-and-personal-sites Sun, 29 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Engineering <![CDATA[Design as Communication]]> https://guden.tr/blog/design-as-communication https://guden.tr/blog/design-as-communication Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Design <![CDATA[Building a Zero-Fee Payment Infrastructure]]> https://guden.tr/blog/building-a-zero-fee-payment-infrastructure https://guden.tr/blog/building-a-zero-fee-payment-infrastructure Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Startup <![CDATA[Building Apps With a Purpose: Charitable Payments in iOS]]> https://guden.tr/blog/building-apps-with-purpose https://guden.tr/blog/building-apps-with-purpose Sun, 18 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT iOS <![CDATA[The AlarmKit Journey: Building Snooze If You Can]]> https://guden.tr/blog/swift-ios-alarmkit-journey https://guden.tr/blog/swift-ios-alarmkit-journey Sun, 04 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT iOS <![CDATA[On Youth and Leadership]]> https://guden.tr/blog/on-youth-and-leadership https://guden.tr/blog/on-youth-and-leadership Sun, 07 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT Career <![CDATA[Next.js 15 on Vercel: Performance Patterns That Matter]]> https://guden.tr/blog/nextjs-15-performance-patterns https://guden.tr/blog/nextjs-15-performance-patterns Sun, 09 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT Engineering <![CDATA[Why a Tech Company Started a Record Label]]> https://guden.tr/blog/building-hmd-entertainment https://guden.tr/blog/building-hmd-entertainment Sun, 12 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT Startup <![CDATA[What Shutting Down SmmPres Taught Me]]> https://guden.tr/blog/shutting-down-smmpres https://guden.tr/blog/shutting-down-smmpres Sun, 14 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT Startup <![CDATA[Growing Up Building Software in Istanbul]]> https://guden.tr/blog/growing-up-building-software-istanbul https://guden.tr/blog/growing-up-building-software-istanbul Sun, 24 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT Career <![CDATA[What Five Years of Building a Company Taught Me About Software]]> https://guden.tr/blog/five-years-shipping-lessons https://guden.tr/blog/five-years-shipping-lessons Sun, 10 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT Reflections <![CDATA[Full-Stack TypeScript in 2025: Our Stack at HMD Developments]]> https://guden.tr/blog/typescript-full-stack-2025 https://guden.tr/blog/typescript-full-stack-2025 Sun, 06 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT Engineering <![CDATA[School, Startups, and the Art of Context Switching]]> https://guden.tr/blog/school-startups-context-switching https://guden.tr/blog/school-startups-context-switching Sun, 22 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT Career <![CDATA[CI/CD Pipelines That Don't Make You Cry]]> https://guden.tr/blog/cicd-pipelines-that-work https://guden.tr/blog/cicd-pipelines-that-work Sun, 08 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT Engineering <![CDATA[Designing APIs Developers Actually Want to Use]]> https://guden.tr/blog/designing-apis-developers-love https://guden.tr/blog/designing-apis-developers-love Sun, 11 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT Architecture <![CDATA[Choosing the Right Database: A Practical Decision Framework]]> https://guden.tr/blog/choosing-the-right-database https://guden.tr/blog/choosing-the-right-database Sun, 13 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT Architecture <![CDATA[Why TypeScript Is Worth the Investment]]> https://guden.tr/blog/why-typescript-is-worth-it https://guden.tr/blog/why-typescript-is-worth-it Sun, 16 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT Engineering <![CDATA[DevOps Lessons: Running Kubernetes in Production]]> https://guden.tr/blog/devops-lessons-kubernetes-production https://guden.tr/blog/devops-lessons-kubernetes-production Sun, 02 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT DevOps <![CDATA[Open Source Licensing: What I Learned the Hard Way]]> https://guden.tr/blog/open-source-licensing-lessons https://guden.tr/blog/open-source-licensing-lessons Sun, 02 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT Open Source <![CDATA[Buying a Company at Fourteen]]> https://guden.tr/blog/hmd-pay-acquisition https://guden.tr/blog/hmd-pay-acquisition Sun, 19 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT Startup <![CDATA[Building a Zero-Fee Payment API: Technical Decisions]]> https://guden.tr/blog/zero-fee-payments-technical-deep-dive https://guden.tr/blog/zero-fee-payments-technical-deep-dive Sun, 05 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT Architecture <![CDATA[Deploying a Multinational Holding - HMD Corp's Architecture]]> https://guden.tr/blog/hmd-corp-architecture https://guden.tr/blog/hmd-corp-architecture Sun, 08 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT Architecture <![CDATA[Real-Time Invite Tracking and Fake Account Detection]]> https://guden.tr/blog/invite-tracking-fake-detection https://guden.tr/blog/invite-tracking-fake-detection Sun, 24 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT Engineering <![CDATA[MongoDB Patterns I Learned from 7,500 Discord Servers]]> https://guden.tr/blog/mongodb-patterns-discord-bots https://guden.tr/blog/mongodb-patterns-discord-bots Sun, 10 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT Engineering <![CDATA[Building Discord Bots at Scale: Chat Guard Architecture]]> https://guden.tr/blog/building-discord-bots-at-scale https://guden.tr/blog/building-discord-bots-at-scale Sun, 13 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT Engineering <![CDATA[From My First Website to My First Startup]]> https://guden.tr/blog/first-website-to-first-startup https://guden.tr/blog/first-website-to-first-startup Sun, 29 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMT Engineering <![CDATA[Why I Built This Site]]> https://guden.tr/blog/launching-guden-tr https://guden.tr/blog/launching-guden-tr Sun, 15 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMT Career