Month: March 2025

Creative People Feed on Creative People

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In neuroscience, there’s a term called “Glimmers”. It’s something that makes you feel safe and calm, it’s something that heals you in traumatic situations, and it’s something that improves your mental and emotional health.

If you want to improve your mind, you should be interested in the work of creative people and anything beautiful to you. It could be a sunset. It could be a sunset, it could be a long look at a work by Van Gogh.

If you can, meet those people in person and talk about their daily lives. Talk outside your field. Spend time with them. Breathe the same air with them. Let your elbows touch.

That’s all from Ugur KILCI.

I am An Artist!

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Yes, that’s right, I’m an artist. Art for art’s sake or art for money. No matter how you perceive it. You should know that I don’t make products randomly. It’s not an empty labor. They all have a cause and effect.

Who is an artist?

Basically, it’s a person who performs art.

So what is art?

Look what Wikipedia says:
“Art describes a diverse range of cultural activity centered around works utilizing creative or imaginative talents, which are expected to evoke a worthwhile experience, usually through an expression of emotional power, conceptual ideas, technical proficiency, and/or beauty.”

I build my products like works of art. Inside, it’s as interwoven with symbols and stories as it is with Easter eggs.

Such as, let’s examine my Create.ist product.

Create.ist, the name already contains the “creatist”. Creating can be identified with engineering today and in most societies. In the movie Prometheus, he refers to engineers. Prometheus also evokes the knowledge given by the gods to humans in Greek myth. Create.ist is therefore about knowledge. It is a form builder. And form is about getting information, transporting it, etc.

Prometheus also depicts turning darkness into light. That’s why I refer to my life’s purpose as “moving human civilization forward” So nothing is random.

Even today, we talk about philosophical issues such as whether artificial intelligence can have consciousness. The beauty of engineering started with the Industrial Revolution.

Gear wheels and steam engines. Perhaps because of this, VALVe named it Steam. Machines. Gear wheels. And the wrench. Nothing random.

When you examine the design of Create.ist, you will see symmetry and minimalism.

Let’s take a look at another product of mine. I haven’t added the English option yet, but this is going to be a masterpiece. A product that you will want to fry fish on the barbecue. Simple and impressive.
There is no English option, but there will be. If I can, I’m thinking of adding every language in the world. I think there will be 7200 languages. So… I mean, why not?

Say hi to Minik.Link.

It’s a very simple site. Extremely simple. Today, even X, Twitter, is simple. I could make a working demo in an hour or two. But it’s the elegance in its simplicity… The deepest truths in the universe are hidden in the simplest rules.

Again, I didn’t name it randomly, again I didn’t make the logo randomly, again I started simple and immediately went into action. But I’m saving all these compliments for version 2 because people like to be mesmerized.

Such as, I’m thinking of pricing it at 2.34. I think it’s fun. I’m gonna take away the freemium feature. It’s just gonna be premium. It’ll be 1 package. Because “Minik (Tiny)” has to live up to its name.

Like, a link-shortening site simplifies chaos, right? Why are all the other link-shortening sites so complicated? Why is it so hard to do something simple? Then “shortening” is the opposite of what it means.

Yeah… I think like an artist. Creativity. I’m a product developer. I’m a designer. I’m a content creator. I’m a serial entrepreneur. But I’m also an artist.

Why Did I Stop Kaizen?

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Product development varies from person to person, and I have my methods. I use several scientific techniques in this regard, but I have to make an announcement: I am leaving the Kaizen technique now.

I was developing an MVP product and improving it piece by piece with feedback. Only one feedback made me think long and hard. Finally, I realized that people want to see fireworks. No one is interested in gunpowder.

I dated a girl in university, but I broke up with her because I had broken the magic of things. In a song, the singer said something like, “Why are you like this and why are you like that?” When I proved it scientifically, the magic was broken. I saw this in people in the following years. People like the result. They don’t like the process.

Something small in the process frames you that way in their minds, and they never change that frame. Whenever they frame you as “someone who makes bad products,” you can never change it. You can make good work all you want, but to him, you are bad.

People like to be under the spell. People like to be deceived. Like illusion. Like magic. People may pay to be deceived, but very few, if any, don’t like it.

I used to create a simple structure in my products and build on it over time with a built-in public. But the disadvantage of this is that when something happens that is not there or when a bug comes out, it is framed as if it is always buggy. Today, even the world’s giant technology companies have bugs. Unfortunately, people personalize it. Maybe they take it easy. I don’t know.

I only know one thing. People want to be mesmerized. They don’t care about the rest. Then there’s no point in persisting. How can I build something that touches people’s lives if no one will use it? How can it be if it doesn’t?

As a result, I’m giving up Kaizen. I know what Kaizen is, but I don’t think it is enough on its own. I don’t think Kaizen should be public. Convince me otherwise.

I understand Steve Jobs better now. Products should only be introduced at launch. Before that, it should be kept in strict secrecy. Because it loses its magic.