Abdullah Faruk
Product manager who also ships the code. I write about AI products, decision-making, and strategy.
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Jira in enterprise companies: person days, lead/cycle time and finance reportingOne morning my product director walked up to my desk and said we would be sending finance a report every month. I said two day job. By the end of the third day I knew better.- I have Claude write up my portfolio every morningI know nothing about finance but I do have a portfolio. For twenty days I had forecasts written and scored. Mostly I learned a word: baseline.
Focus points in loyalty programme designWhat makes a loyalty programme work is not points but the feeling of status. Design notes from the tourism and retail side.- What we went through with AI in 2025, in Turkey and globallyA year that started with Cursor, the late reaction of companies in Turkey, and the bill for AI strategies built on volume rather than quality.
Product management guide 1: getting to know a sector as a digital product managerBefore you build a product you have to know the sector. What to look at in a market analysis, worked through an edtech example.
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8 mobile apps under Zort Productions, 7 of them live on the App Store and Google Play. All built solo.