Hakan Alpay — software engineer and maker in New York
I make dictionaries 辞書social software sosyalreal-world games ゲームiOS apps uygulamaphotographs 写真dictionaries 辞書 for the web.
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01 About
I’m a full-stack engineer at DoorDash. Before that, iOS + web at Meta. The rest of the time I turn whatever I’m obsessed with into software.
Languages, maps, games, cities, interfaces, tiny tools, overly ambitious side projects.
See what survived ↘02 Index of work
Things I’ve
made.
11 projects · hover to peek
01 Kiokun 記憶君 A unified Chinese–Japanese dictionary. 02 Sehyo 세효 The most human social media on earth. 03 Kimu NYC A multiplayer emoji MMO played on the real NYC map. 04 Driiiift ドリフト A minimalist browser drift game. 05 Özcük sözlük The most comprehensive Turkish dictionary. 06 duojp 文 Build sentences by dragging tiles. 07 Emoji Mahjong 牌 Mahjong, but matched by meaning. 08 HKOS Trainer 麻雀 Learn Hong Kong Old Style mahjong. 09 Chinese Sentence 句 An endless stream of readable Chinese. 10 Turkish Sentence cümle The same idea, in Turkish. 11 EASI ≋ An experimental index of equality at scale.
03 Operating principle
Make it useful.
Make it strange.
Ship it anyway.