Hey, I'm Arda!

Sorry, who?

I'm a computer nerd who decided the systems weren't going to fix themselves. So I dirtied my hands myself (self-learnt dev)
Currently studying Computer Engineering at Namik Kemal University (Last Update: 2022)(Turkey's Comp. Eng. is somewhat equivalent of Europe's Comp. Sci)

Hmm, what are you working on?

Since I aim to fix systems, i have a million ideas that can be done. However, here are some of them I invested in so much, they got a name... mostly:

• ATRAS, Better, in-house Transifex that is designed with freelancers & clients in mind with features like:

  • Slack/Teams integration
  • self-hosting for company networks
  • a Github Issues like system for discussing context and meanings for each "translateable"
  • and some more TBD.

• OPTİK, Github Classroom clone with extra features like:

  • Batch grading (to save costs!)
  • Self-hostable
  • Basic cheat detection
  • Github and Gitlab integration support.
  • Optional verbose fields for each test to inform students on what they did wrong, without having 100+ email conversations.
  • Data, data, data! Manually and systemically exporting data for creating graphs or just automating school gradings.
  • Q&A section, just like Google's Code Competitions. Not every question has to be public but if it is, students can agree to get your attention on a popular question.

• PDA-Talkie, An emergency walkie-talkie and station with some PDA-like features, such as:

  • "Complete" isolation of PDA mode and radio mode so you won't have to deal with any developer UI when you need to just communicate, quickly.
  • "Decentralized" as in every PDA's transaction happens either with another PDA or the paired station.
  • On an emergency, people with PDAs can join emergency searches.
  • Optional weather reporting, useful in urban, mountain areas.
  • GPS and Bluetooth to locate your device. Only the paired station and a emergency search attendee will get the location data.
  • Open sourcing the hardware, software code and even the CI/CD process to auto-test the firmware.
  • Hardware designed to be servicable: Assuming no critical PCB damages happened, it should be possible to just replace a component, down to the "module" level. (for ex: replacing the HC-05 bluetooth radio component of the radio module)
  • Obviously, more time will come, more will be designed, more will be dreamt. Some features are still TBD.

Why is my sponsorship important to you? How will you use the funds?

I will need money to develop both myself and the projects. Hardware development, for example, even with just trial and error on parts and modules, is free until a point.

Also as with other people's needs, I will need to eat, have a check-up and pay bills. For that, I will need your help.

Also by sponsoring me you can commission projects to me (discounts may be done if i like it or agreed to open source it) or bid on new features on existing projects (whether my project or someone else's OSS).

That is important because as a person, like all other people, I also burnout from projects time to time, so having a project idea that's ready to start is really good.

I also want to give better support to some of my projects as a company, and it is scary to found a company based on no portfolio: So, you will be a founding stone laid on the company's base.