Universitev
2014 — on hold On holdOne platform for everything a university student needs, from housing to lecture notes, from roommates to job listings. It began with a notebook on campus and grew into a roommate-matching algorithm developed with mathematics professors.
Wins
- 120,000 user registrations without a single ad
- First official company in Sakarya: Universitev Bilgi Teknolojileri ve Pazarlama A.Ş. (2014)
- A first team built in a home office with zero capital
Failures
- The scope was too wide; it could not launch in one go
- The pace we wanted was not reached in the two-year focus period; development was halted
Lessons learned
- When the side business becomes the main business, the main project pays the price
- Everything we know today came from the trial and error here