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Upside App Studio · İstanbul

Independent by design.

An İstanbul studio that picks its own problems and answers for every app it ships.

Why we bothered

Nobody was going to fund the first version.

Upside exists to find out how far an idea can get without a client, a committee or a round in front of it. Everything on this site was picked, funded and shipped from inside the studio, which means we choose the problem, carry the mistake, and keep whatever comes of it.

The second reason is harder to write down. Mobile product teams in Türkiye are still almost entirely male, and the shortage has never been talent. It is who gets asked first. Öznur co-founded this studio and runs it as CEO, and most of what is on the App Store ships under her name. We say it plainly because anyone wondering whether this industry has room for them should be able to see the answer without digging.

01

Ship it, then find out

A week of real usage settles arguments that a quarter of planning only postpones. We launch narrow and early and let the numbers do the deciding.

02

Real numbers or none

Downloads, ratings and press go on this site only once we can back them. An empty section beats an invented one.

03

Hold the door open

We answer cold messages, speak where we are invited, and pay attention to people nobody has taken a chance on yet, mostly women starting out in mobile.

Founding team

The people behind the apps.

Doğukan Özgür Yılmaz

Doğukan Özgür Yılmaz

Co-founder & CTO

Company

The paperwork, in public.

Platform reviewers, partners and grant committees all end up asking for these, so here they are up front. Every line matches our company registry exactly.

Trading as
Upside App Studio
Shipping since
2026
Headquarters
İstanbul, Türkiye
Domain
upsideappstudio.com

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