Selected Works
- Osmos — Version control for your own files that runs entirely on your machine; syncing between devices comes next.
- Mythos — A writing app for novelists that keeps characters, places and chapters organized in plain files they own.
- Q-PASS — Card-based entry and meal tracking I built for my vocational high school; it served 120–150 people a day for three school years.
- Gayrimenkul Dünyası — Real estate news and listings gathered from many sources into one place.
- Sortify — Learning games for children aged 3–13, with tools for parents and teachers to follow their progress.
- +TV — Turns an Android phone into a remote, cast and mirroring tool for Samsung, LG and Philips TVs; 10K+ downloads.
- Sortify Web — Sortify's games in the browser, for classrooms and devices without the app.
- Rule Sort — A fast reflex game: sort falling objects by a rule that keeps changing.
- Block Nest — A block puzzle with a twist: tilt the board into a diamond or spin it with a gravity wheel.
- Spor Sayfası — A sports news site with scores, stats and live data feeds.
- Garage.ist Website — The studio's home page, showing its apps and where to get them.
- World Clock — See the time anywhere on a live day-and-night map and find meeting times across cities.
- IT-RMS — Inventory and lab management for a school IT department: what is where, who has it, and what is running low.
- Chorus — An anonymous discussion board with no accounts, where every message is saved as a Git commit.
Publications
The Sins of the Fathers — Psychological Fiction / Drama · Novel · Under Review (Everest First Novel Award)
A three-generation family saga stretching from the haunted streets of Scotland to the soulless towers of Los Angeles. A psychological family epic tracing ancestral sins, moral responsibility, and man's reckoning with his own conscience.
About
I'm Barış, a software developer in Istanbul, and what I enjoy most is building things: apps, websites, tools, whatever the idea needs. Since October 2024 I've been CTO at Garage.ist, a small product studio, where I make iOS and Android apps with one other developer. On my own time I write local-first tools in Rust and Go and publish them as open source, and when something has no documentation, I take it apart until I understand it. I study computer programming at Istanbul University, and I've written a novel that is now under review.
If you'd like to talk about a project, build something together, or contribute to one of my open-source repositories, write to me. You're welcome to write just to chat, too.