Ali Buğatekin

I build, ship and grow products. I started on the web and, over time, took on the whole product — from idea to growth. My current focus is GOA Game Studio and our mobile games.

✦ Our games GOA Studio ↗GitHub

↓ right now

GOA Game Studio

GOA makes small, sharp puzzle games for iOS, with Android on the way. Every level is verified solvable before release, and a new Daily Board opens for everyone, every day.

GOA website ↗

Games

GOA: Margin

Turn-based chase-and-escape puzzle.

GOA: The Cube Maze

Isometric mazes, generated endlessly.

↓ projects

Selected apps

Open-source tools and apps I've shipped.

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↓ recent writing

Writing

IPOOpenAI

5/25/2026 · 7 min

SpaceX, OpenAI, Anthropic Are Going Public — So What?

Summer 2026 brings three back-to-back IPOs: SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic. As a developer, this isn't just a finance story — it's news that the owners of your tools now answer to public markets. From Sam Altman's '0% excited' confession to DHH's 'customer hostile' critique, listening to what the industry's leading voices actually say sharpens the picture.

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Google I/OAntigravity

5/20/2026 · 6 min

Google I/O 2026 Developer Keynote: Notes from Watching It

Google I/O 2026 was dominated by Antigravity 2.0, Gemini 3.5 Flash, and WebMCP. Google is no longer just in the model race — it wants a seat at the tooling table too, with a direct response to Cursor and Claude Code.

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AnthropicClaude

5/20/2026 · 6 min

Karpathy at Anthropic: What Happens When Claude Trains Claude?

Andrej Karpathy paused Eureka Labs and joined Anthropic. His mission: build a brand-new team that uses Claude to accelerate Claude's own pre-training research. AI is now part of training AI.

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