Issue N° 047
Apr '26
Ugur & Murat build production-grade apps for startups. No juniors. No project managers. No agency overhead. You talk to the people writing the code — from idea to scale.
We don't do 8-week discovery decks. We do async loom walkthroughs, one video call a week, and a deployed preview URL before your coffee gets cold. Every week has a demo.
We get on Zoom. You sketch what's in your head. We translate it into scope, stack, and a fair timeline — out loud, not in a proposal deck.
Day one: repo, CI/CD, preview URL. Day two: shipping. Weekly Loom demos, a shared Linear, and a direct line to the two people writing your code.
We document the whole thing in a README a junior dev can follow. Most founders stay on a retainer — because the Duo that built it is the fastest at scaling it.
A sampling. There are 30+ more on the ship log, from fishing AIs to Swiss NFC cards. Click the ones below for case studies.
Pick any two of the four. Or hand us the whole stack. Everything ships with a README a new engineer can follow, CI/CD, and a monitoring dashboard that actually works.
Next.js, React, TypeScript on the front. Supabase or Firebase on the back. Real auth, real Stripe, real users by week three.
RAG with pgvector, Claude / OpenAI / Gemini orchestration, chatbots, custom agents, eval harnesses. AI that ships, not demo-ware.
NestJS APIs, websockets, microservices, queues. Deployed on AWS, Vercel, Railway or Hetzner. We migrate messes for a living.
Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge. DOM injection, cross-origin messaging, content scripts. Our extensions serve 500K+ users.
We don't pick tools by trend. Every layer earns its spot by shipping something to production twice. If something newer wins, we'll tell you — and try it on project three, not yours.
When you email DuoMake, one of two people reads it. When you open a PR, one of two people reviews it. That's the entire org chart. It's why we move fast and why you always know who you're talking to.
Verified Upwork reviews from founders who paid us money and came back to pay us more. Every one is public.
"Brought the Duo on to rebuild our SaaS dashboard. Performance improved 4×, customers noticed immediately. They think like product engineers, not just coders."
"Murat delivered ABSOLUTE pleasure — meticulous attention, excellent documentation, bug-free."
"Great work again from my new favourite coders. Can't recommend enough."
"Migrated Postgres → ClickHouse, added Kafka, moved infra to Hetzner. What used to crash now runs smoothly under heavy load."
"Got the project back in 48 hours — original timeline was 7 days. DuoMake is by far the best team I've worked with on Upwork. Highly recommend."
"Pro-active and eager to learn new tech to support our progress. Communication is the difference."
"It is very fun to work with the Duo. Clearly experienced, pays attention to detail, got very involved with the project."
"Shipped iOS + Android ahead of schedule with real-time sync and push notifications. Clean TypeScript throughout."
"Pleasure working with DuoMake!"
The same questions every founder asks on call #1. We'll send this page ahead of time so we can spend the call talking about your product instead.
Full-stack web apps, SaaS platforms, AI-integrated products, and browser extensions. MVPs for early-stage startups through scale work on existing products. If it's a greenfield Next.js / NestJS / Postgres build, we're a perfect fit.
4–8 weeks for a focused MVP. 1–3 weeks for a feature addition or integration. You'll get a clear, fixed estimate within 24 hours of our discovery call — not a vague range.
Ugur and Murat. Nobody else. No junior devs, no outsourced contractors, no rotating account managers. You have direct Slack access to both of us for the entire project.
Yes — most clients continue on a flexible monthly retainer. We know the codebase cold, so iteration after launch is 3–4× faster than onboarding a new team.
Regularly. LLM integrations (Claude, OpenAI, Gemini), RAG pipelines with pgvector, custom chatbots, AI-powered workflows. We also build the eval harnesses so it doesn't break silently.
Half-joking, fully serious. Every project ships with a README a new engineer can follow, documented architecture, CI/CD, and owned by you in your GitHub from day one. Both of us know every codebase; you're never a single point of failure.
MVPs typically $12–35k depending on scope; retainers from $4k/mo. We quote fixed-scope projects — no surprise invoices. If it's smaller, we'll tell you and often recommend someone else.
Half an hour. No slides. Bring a rough idea or a half-finished Figma — by the end of the call you'll have a timeline, a fixed quote, and two senior devs who already sketched your stack.