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Berkay Atatop

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132 total appearances

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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 Bonus: Berkay Atatop, Maestra

But we wanted to have a single application where you can do all of those things without switching platforms.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 Bonus: Berkay Atatop, Maestra

But we wanted to have a single application where you can do all of those things without switching platforms.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 Bonus: Berkay Atatop, Maestra

First of all, when we first graduated, we were very inexperienced and we were like three at first college graduates and then four, we included another friends of ours. And we were initially like four co-founders that were all fresh college graduates and didn't really know anything.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 Bonus: Berkay Atatop, Maestra

First of all, when we first graduated, we were very inexperienced and we were like three at first college graduates and then four, we included another friends of ours. And we were initially like four co-founders that were all fresh college graduates and didn't really know anything.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 Bonus: Berkay Atatop, Maestra

First of all, when we first graduated, we were very inexperienced and we were like three at first college graduates and then four, we included another friends of ours. And we were initially like four co-founders that were all fresh college graduates and didn't really know anything.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 Bonus: Berkay Atatop, Maestra

At first, we were honestly following our gut or mainly the user feedback was guiding us a lot, maybe more than it's supposed to. But since we were not used to the idea of people using our product, we were trying to listen to everything, anything that the customers say, which was helpful to verify that we are doing the right thing, at least for some people. So we follow the trends as well.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 Bonus: Berkay Atatop, Maestra

At first, we were honestly following our gut or mainly the user feedback was guiding us a lot, maybe more than it's supposed to. But since we were not used to the idea of people using our product, we were trying to listen to everything, anything that the customers say, which was helpful to verify that we are doing the right thing, at least for some people. So we follow the trends as well.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 Bonus: Berkay Atatop, Maestra

At first, we were honestly following our gut or mainly the user feedback was guiding us a lot, maybe more than it's supposed to. But since we were not used to the idea of people using our product, we were trying to listen to everything, anything that the customers say, which was helpful to verify that we are doing the right thing, at least for some people. So we follow the trends as well.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 Bonus: Berkay Atatop, Maestra

For example, recently the voice cloning feature is very mainstream on the media. We wanted to get this feature out as soon as we could, so we released it a week or two ago. The thing that our roadmap, we decided at the beginning of the year, or we have yearly meetings with the board, we decide what we want to do as an overview.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 Bonus: Berkay Atatop, Maestra

For example, recently the voice cloning feature is very mainstream on the media. We wanted to get this feature out as soon as we could, so we released it a week or two ago. The thing that our roadmap, we decided at the beginning of the year, or we have yearly meetings with the board, we decide what we want to do as an overview.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 Bonus: Berkay Atatop, Maestra

For example, recently the voice cloning feature is very mainstream on the media. We wanted to get this feature out as soon as we could, so we released it a week or two ago. The thing that our roadmap, we decided at the beginning of the year, or we have yearly meetings with the board, we decide what we want to do as an overview.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 Bonus: Berkay Atatop, Maestra

But as the year continues, if a breakthrough happens that we can integrate to the app, we also focus on that as well because When something like that happens, the market for our application, the demographic might shift. For example, we were mostly focusing on the subtitle application. We are still doing that, but because most of our customers were coming from the subtitling application.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 Bonus: Berkay Atatop, Maestra

But as the year continues, if a breakthrough happens that we can integrate to the app, we also focus on that as well because When something like that happens, the market for our application, the demographic might shift. For example, we were mostly focusing on the subtitle application. We are still doing that, but because most of our customers were coming from the subtitling application.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 Bonus: Berkay Atatop, Maestra

But as the year continues, if a breakthrough happens that we can integrate to the app, we also focus on that as well because When something like that happens, the market for our application, the demographic might shift. For example, we were mostly focusing on the subtitle application. We are still doing that, but because most of our customers were coming from the subtitling application.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 Bonus: Berkay Atatop, Maestra

But for example, after those voiceover improvements that happened this year, A lot more people started searching for voiceover as well. So we wanted to focus on giving the thing that people are searching for at that moment. Usually we have a timeline. We have things that we want to do, but depending on the priority, we can squeeze some other things in.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 Bonus: Berkay Atatop, Maestra

But for example, after those voiceover improvements that happened this year, A lot more people started searching for voiceover as well. So we wanted to focus on giving the thing that people are searching for at that moment. Usually we have a timeline. We have things that we want to do, but depending on the priority, we can squeeze some other things in.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 Bonus: Berkay Atatop, Maestra

But for example, after those voiceover improvements that happened this year, A lot more people started searching for voiceover as well. So we wanted to focus on giving the thing that people are searching for at that moment. Usually we have a timeline. We have things that we want to do, but depending on the priority, we can squeeze some other things in.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 Bonus: Berkay Atatop, Maestra

In the hackathon, one of my current CEO of the company is the person who helped me build the application in the hackathon. We built the application together. While creating the company, I knew that he was one of the trustworthy people that I could work with because I already did it in a very intense condition in a hackathon. And also he's still one of my best friends from college as well.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 Bonus: Berkay Atatop, Maestra

In the hackathon, one of my current CEO of the company is the person who helped me build the application in the hackathon. We built the application together. While creating the company, I knew that he was one of the trustworthy people that I could work with because I already did it in a very intense condition in a hackathon. And also he's still one of my best friends from college as well.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 Bonus: Berkay Atatop, Maestra

In the hackathon, one of my current CEO of the company is the person who helped me build the application in the hackathon. We built the application together. While creating the company, I knew that he was one of the trustworthy people that I could work with because I already did it in a very intense condition in a hackathon. And also he's still one of my best friends from college as well.