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It's our side project that we've done during the weekend. We used React, Javascript and Java. We are open to questions if there are any :)

Hetzner has a response time of at least 24 hours where you'd have a lot shorter times in companies like Digital Ocean. We use Hetzner, DO and Azure. Looks like they are all similar in terms of uptime. Yet, if you have problem with your server then Hetzner usually takes longer time to recover.

I'll do some tests applying Facebook's strategy to focus on certain schools. I still don't believe that Turkish people would pay for the service / ads. But you've provided some really nice insights.

Although we rank really well in Turkey, the search volume is really low thus It's almost impossible to monitize the business in ads. That's why we started to think about expanding to some other markets preferrably English speaking.

On the other hand there are around 4.5 million university level students in Turkey and a good part of them are living in apartments. (Most schools don't have dorms) Yet, the whole "looking for a roommate" business is offline. That's where we have problems to atract more people to our platform.

There is also probably laws that keeps you from doing that. At least in many countries, It's illegal to damage money even after they changed the material or the currency itself. It's a very long shot and probably not very profittable.

Thesis: "Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design in Fethiye and a Proposal of Crime GIS Database"

I collected crime data from multiple resources and analyzed it in 3 dimensional space (lat, long, time) in order to understand which areas crime took place most and frequently. Then I proposed physical urban implementations to decrease the crime rates.

I was alone and It was a 12 credits project, completed in 2 semesters.

I think I know which accelerator you are talking about. Ecosystem in Turkey looks very promising from outside but when you start digging you hear stories such as this.

I know that one of those so called mentors asked %8 of shares from startups which wanted to pitch infront of a regular event held every year in Turkey. This is absurd as there is no guarantee and infact very low chances of investment.

We've been accepted to two of accelerators in Turkey and attended one of them. The one we didn't attend was an internationally known accelerator and they asked us to be in their office 9 - 6 everyday for 3 months and forced us to stay inside and build our product against all things learned from Lean Startup methodology. They even suggested that we could send interns to meetings that I have pre-organized with CXOs of biggest insurance companies. We didn't sign the deal, we didn't attend the program.

You must be right, as a non-engineer I probably caught the wrong name during the conversation.