You probably know me as the guy in the hat.
I own seven. My name is Umurcan Gorur, and these are the hats you can’t see.
Tektik
TekTık Yazılım is the company I co-founded in April 2025 with Faruk Arıgün. It is our third together. We build software that does a small company’s office work.
TekTık Asistan
An assistant that lives in WhatsApp and Telegram and works like the office staff a small business can’t afford: customers, work orders, invoices, collections, staff, paperwork. You send it a voice note, a photo of a receipt or a document. It keeps the records, remembers the business, and writes first when something is due, like a morning summary or a payment that is late.
It is in beta with several companies in Turkey, and a first pilot in the UK is running.
policeler.in
For insurance agencies. The agency uploads a policy once. The customer opens the agency’s own page, types the code that arrives by SMS, and has the document. There is no app to install and no “can you send it again”. The whole product runs on Cloudflare Workers.
Open source
Things I needed, built, and left out for whoever needs them next.
Orka
Your strongest coding agent is also your most expensive. Orka makes it the CTO: it plans, writes a task card for each piece of work, reviews and merges, while cheaper agent CLIs do the coding in parallel, each in its own git worktree. A different model reviews every critical change before it lands, and the manager re-runs the acceptance itself, because a worker’s report is a claim.
It is an Agent Skill and a few hundred lines of bash. The rules came out of 217 worker runs on two production projects.
os-zapret2
DPI bypass for OPNsense, packaged as a proper plugin. Many ISPs read the server name in a TLS handshake and block by it; zapret2 rewrites the handshake so they can’t. This wraps it in what a firewall at home needs: a settings page, a diagnostics page that finds the strategy that works on your ISP, supervision, and a watchdog that switches it off if it starts breaking ordinary HTTPS.
I built it because I needed it at home.
The rack in the attic
A rack under the roof runs the house: about a hundred devices that mostly do what they are told, and a voice assistant that speaks Turkish and never leaves the building. It is where I break things on purpose.
How I got here
At three I took my father’s screwdriver to a cassette player to see how it worked. It was plugged in. I got my answer and an electric shock, and the habit stayed.
In the late nineties my father connected a dial-up modem and showed me the internet. I learned HTML by reading other people’s pages, and I was paid for code at fourteen. Since then I have built the first version of a lot of things, been CTO of a company of about fifty, taught Ruby to around 150 students, and co-founded three companies. One of them closed when the money ran out.
Say hello
Email mail@ugorur.com or Telegram @ugorur, whichever you prefer. I am also on GitHub and LinkedIn.
Ask how I would build something. Ask for help when you are stuck. Bring the problem that looks too hard; I like those most.