Volkan Özçelik
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Word Buddies
Here is a real story:
Cihan and Aylin are living together in beautiful Berkeley.
Cihan works at a high-tech company in San Francisco;
while Aylin goes to school at UC Berkeley for her Phd. degree in Law.
Often times she comes across interesting English words at school which she wants to practice and learn.
Since some of the words and terminology are used in both of their subjects, this would benefit them both.
There was one little problem, though:
There wasn't an easy way of sharing words with each other throughout the day,
other than sending whatsapp message or emails. Both of which, suck.
Here, at WordBuddies ™, we will…
- present lists of words in an intuitively accessible way;
- With fun;
- and with competition.
WordBuddies ™ is (or, let us say, "will be") an addictive platform for all word-lovers.
You will learn vocabulary using the BuddyEffect ™ and gamification, without even realizing that you do!
…
ahem 'nuf hints already, wait for the hackathon demo ;).
About Us
Begül Tunç
Designista.
Makes photoshop "sing".
Crafts be-a-u-tiful interfaces so fast that, sometimes we suspect she freezes time or something.
Cihan Şahin
The biz guy.
He can wear many hats, including "usability expert", "coder", "designer associate", "marketing manager".
His energy, and stamina, is what makes this group a "team"!
Volkan Özçelik
Jack of all trades, master of JavaScript.
If somehting can be done with JavaScript, Volkan has probably created a prototype of it as a "side-project" somewhere.
He has been actively developing in the industry since "Netscape Navigator 4".
He talks at conferences, writes books and articles, and plays Skyrim.
See volkan.io and @linkibol for how he does what he does.
Tecnhologies We Will Use
- Node.JS;
- NGINX;
- Redis;
- MongoDB;
- Sockets and Streams (and PubNub, of course!);
- Love, passion;
- and Redbull (was that a sponsor?).