Goku Yilmaz
Engineer, entrepreneur, gamer, biohacker.
- I’ve been working on Colonist for the last 8 years.
- I’ve been working on a Company OS project and trying to move all operating processes into AI.
- Recently, I’ve been working on a Personal OS.
- Lately, I’ve mostly been playing Colonist Rush.
- Always improving my health, lately by cutting body fat and strengthening tendons.
- I’ve been living in different places as a digital nomad, mostly exploring Southeast Asia at the moment.
I’m open to I crave any and all sorts of feedback for every aspect and decision of my life. Please tell me what I need to hear, increase my awareness and make me wiser.
Previously I’ve founded:
- Breakpoint Labs
- Dawn of Crafting
- Mobile Monday Ankara
- Metu eSports Society
- Bunch of failed companies and projects
Previously I’ve advised:
My Goal In Life
- Singleplayer: Improve the stats and skills of my character (me) and become one of the most powerful characters in this server (i.e: Earth).
- Multiplayer: Work on problems that I find interesting or that bother me and collaborate with other players to raid bigger problems that I cannot solve alone.
Founded Companies
Colonist.io
- Strategy game inspired from Catan in browser, mobile and Discord
- 500K Monthly Active Players
- 3K playing at any given time of the day
- You can find more mind-blowing stats here in our 2025 Summary
- Played by Mr. Beast, one of the world’s most famous YouTubers with 510M+ subscribers
Breakpoint Labs
We’ve worked on various projects in the cryptocurrency space. These include:
- Breakpoint Capital: A private crypto fund
- Bitses: A website with fundamental analyses of 100+ crypto assets, one of the biggest websites of its kind
- Amoveo Exchange: A crypto to crypto exchange focused for the currency of Amoveo
Dawn of Crafting
- Crafting game for iOS devices
- Hundreds of people play 200+ hours
- Average 4.8 star reviews (One of the highest rated games in its category)
- Featured as Game of the Day in the App Store in countries such as the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Turkey, and Germany.
- Hit #1 RPG and Puzzle in the App Store in dozens of countries including the United Kingdom, Australia, Sweden, Norway, Finland, New Zealand, Belgium, Ireland, Turkey, South Africa, Ukraine, and the UAE Source
- #1 Most Liked Incremental Game Source
- #1 Highest Rated Incremental Game Source
- Passed Minecraft in the Paid Games category in the App Store for a couple of days Source
- Featured on 10+ game blogs
- Self-published in the West. IP licensed to TapTap for publishing in China
- Dan Harmon (Creator of Rick and Morty & Community) plays DoC more than I watched Rick and Morty (and I watched it all 3 times)
Kreix
- Raised $50K government grant
- Built 20+ mobile apps, mostly consumer focused
- Couldn’t find strong Product-Market-Fit
- Apprenticeship period, foundation of my life
Lumos Bilisim
- First company straight after college
- Did consulting web & mobile projects for small businesses
Advisory
Venge.io
- Best performing native multiplayer FPS game on the web
- Most popular FPS on the web at its peak
- 35 million played in 2021
- I advised the team about product, business, game design
Barakatech
- Company founded by Nokta Media founders (Turkey’s biggest social media conglomerate)
- I advised the team about blockchain technologies from product, engineering and business perspectives
Investing
- I primarily invest through early-stage-focused fund managers and angels.
- I invest directly in companies only when I feel unusually close to the product, people, mission, or problem.
- I don’t treat investment returns as a personal achievement. What interests me is learning how founders, technology, markets, and incentives interact; participating in a company’s journey in a small way; and putting capital to productive work rather than simply chasing gains.
- Earlier, I spent years with a crypto-only portfolio and also experimented with broad direct startup investing.
- My current conclusion is that I would rather identify exceptional people who consistently find and support great founders than try to personally pick every winning company. I believe I have better odds evaluating the evaluators.
Founded Groups
Mobile Monday Ankara
- First meetup in Ankara about mobile technologies
- Has over 1K+ members
- Actively running
METU eSports Society
- One of the first university eSports societies in the world
- We helped establish eSports societies at more than 100 universities
- Has over 1K+ members
- Actively running
Open Source
- Contributors and users of my open source libraries include entrepreneurs, serial hackathon winners and employees of: Amazon, Facebook, Samsung, Epic Games, Electronic Arts, Ebay, Line, Yelp, Cloudflare, Evernote, Nubank
Stack Overflow
- I used Stack Overflow regularly in the past
- Top 0.68% this year
- Impact: ~10m people reached
- The number of programmers I could help with Stack Overflow is just mind-blowing
Swift Projects
- EZSwiftExtensions Star
- 😏 How Swift standard types and classes were supposed to work. A collection of useful extensions for the Swift Standard Library, Foundation and UIKit.
- 349K+ CocoaPods downloads until 2018
- QorumLogs Star
- 📕 Swift logging for Xcode and Google Docs. Uses Google Sheets as a database for user logs.
- 42K+ CocoaPods downloads until 2018
- EZSwipeController Star
- 👆 Easy-to-use UIPageViewController navigation like Snapchat, Tinder and iOS main pages.
- 26K+ CocoaPods downloads until 2018
- EZLoadingActivity Star
- 🐣 Lightweight loading activity for iOS 7+. Add the class and write one line of code.
- 70K+ CocoaPods downloads until 2018
EasyUO Scripts
- Spent years building some of the most popular character automation tools for Ultima Online
- Only open sourced 4 scripts. Have 50+ more scripts like these
- Some private scripts were leaked and were used by thousands of players
- Some groups used my tools for farming items and selling them for more than $500K profits
- Proudest PvP automation: Perfect PvP mage that could take out the best 20 ping mages in the world with 300 ping connection
- Proudest economy automation: Crafting factory with 20+ agents. Used this method to become the richest guild in 3 months in the server UODemise (6 year server at the time). Made so much money that we experienced inflation. Every item doubled in price. We owned the economy, we owned the world.
RunUO
⚔️ An open source emulator for the MMORPG Ultima Online
- Unlike other projects I was merely a contributor here
- Contributed for years and affected thousands of people
- There were hundreds of contributors at its peak days
- The original code used SVN instead of Git
- RunUO is no longer officially supported by a core team. The project was forked into a new one called ServUO
Extra
Oh, and somewhere gathering dust, I also have an MS in Software Engineering from METU
Last update: August 12, 2026