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Case Studies
July 26, 2026Β·19 min read

Work and Issue Tracking Software: What We Learned Building Our Own Tool

What does it take to turn a team's work, bugs and releases into software? An honest account of building Stride out of our own need β€” from the anatomy of a work item to sprint measurement, external request intake and deployment models.

#stride#is-takip#proje-yonetimi#saas
Technology
July 26, 2026Β·19 min read

Content Management Systems: What We Learned Building a Multi-Site CMS Ourselves

Turning one website into software is easy; keeping ten sites alive on a single installation is hard. An honest account of what we learned building Vosetu CMS β€” from the content model to multi-tenancy, the page builder, SEO and caching.

#vosetu-cms#cms#cok-kiracili#seo
Project Delivery
July 26, 2026Β·18 min read

Taking Software Live: From the Delivery Pipeline to the Domain

The day software is finished and the day it goes live are not the same. The delivery pipeline, environment settings, the domain, certificates, caching and a rollback plan β€” a step-by-step account of keeping launch day calm, and the traps we fell into.

#teslim#devreye-alma#alan-adi#operasyon
Project Delivery
July 26, 2026Β·16 min read

Data Migration: Moving From the Old System Without Losing Anything

Writing the new system is the easy half; the real risk is moving the old data. A step-by-step account of data migration β€” choosing the target model, picking a stable key, why TRUNCATE is banned in production, and how to verify what you moved.

#teslim#veri-gocu#veritabani#operasyon
Project Delivery
July 26, 2026Β·9 min read

Testing and Acceptance: When Is Software Actually 'Done'?

'Works on my machine' is not an acceptance criterion. From a numbered test catalogue to test waves, from a security finding caught in a smoke test to honest scope reporting: the process that makes work deliverable.

#teslim#test#kabul#kalite
Expert Opinion
July 26, 2026Β·11 min read

What We Are Not Building: Cutting Scope Is Harder Than Adding Features

In every project the real decision is not what will be built but what will not. An opinion piece on how we cut scope, the price of saying 'soon', and the difference between postponing and skipping.

#mvp#kapsam#urun-yonetimi#gorus
Expert Opinion
July 26, 2026Β·10 min read

Library or Build It Ourselves? The Criteria for Choosing a Dependency

Every ready-made component is both a convenience and a debt. An opinion piece on the criteria we use β€” writing our own editor and charts while relying on ready-made frameworks for the database and the UI.

#mimari#bagimlilik#teknik-borc#gorus
Expert Opinion
July 26, 2026Β·10 min read

Using Your Own Product: The Cost and Return of Living With What You Sell

A team that does not use its own product learns about the gaps when a customer complains. An opinion piece on how we run our business on our own products, how that reshapes the roadmap, and why there are no invented numbers on our site.

#urun-kulturu#durustluk#pazarlama#gorus
Custom Software Development
July 26, 2026Β·8 min read

Custom Software or an Off-the-Shelf Package? How to Decide

An off-the-shelf package starts cheap and custom software starts expensive. Over three years of total cost of ownership the picture can flip. As a team that builds both, we describe the questions we use to decide.

#ozel-yazilim#saas#karar#maliyet
Custom Software Development
July 26, 2026Β·9 min read

How Systems Talk to Each Other: The Anatomy of Enterprise Integration

Most enterprise projects are spent not writing a new system but making existing ones talk. A practical guide to adapter architecture, identity, consistency, error handling and the cheapest forms of integration.

#entegrasyon#api#mimari#kurumsal
Custom Software Development
July 26, 2026Β·8 min read

Multi-Tenant SaaS Architecture: One Installation, Many Customers

A separate installation per customer works for the first five and collapses at the fiftieth. How multi-tenant architecture is built, why isolation cannot rest on a single layer, and how we caught a leak.

#saas#mimari#cok-kiracili#guvenlik
Business Growth
July 26, 2026Β·8 min read

Module-Based Pricing: Why Should a Customer Pay for What They Don't Use?

Package pricing makes selling easier; module-based pricing builds trust. A practical look at the balance between them, what belongs in the core, and how a pricing model shows up in architecture.

#fiyatlandirma#saas#urun-yonetimi#buyume
Business Growth
July 26, 2026Β·7 min read

Subscription or One-Time Licence? The Real Cost of Both Models

A subscription looks like payment that never ends and a licence like paying once and being done. Both have hidden lines. As a team that offers both, we explain what corresponds to what on the buyer's and the seller's side.

#abonelik#lisans#maliyet#buyume
Business Growth
July 26, 2026Β·8 min read

The Legal Limits of Reaching SMBs: Permission-Based Outreach and Data Collection

Building a list to reach businesses is technically easy and legally bounded. Notes from our own research on commercial message consent, the merchant exemption, the limits of scraping public data and the data-licensing trap.

#pazarlama#kvkk#izinli-iletisim#buyume
Case Studies
July 24, 2026Β·18 min read

Restaurant and Cafe Software: What We Learned Building Our Own Product

What does it take to turn a food-and-beverage business into software? An honest account of what we learned building Horeca β€” from tabs and kitchen displays to recipe costing and a module matrix.

#horeca#saas#urun-deneyimi