Overview
Boşa Gezme! is a location-aware discovery platform for real physical home and living stores.
The Problem
Online search often answers “What can I buy?” Boşa Gezme! focuses on “Which physical store is actually worth visiting?” It brings store information, community experiences, and location context together to make that decision easier.
Product Loop
Discover → Visit → Review → Help the next person discover
My Role
- Product idea and UX direction
- Frontend and backend development
- Location-aware discovery and review flows
- Authentication and multilingual product structure
- Google and OpenAI integrations
- Production setup and deployment
Key Product Capabilities
- Discovery of real physical stores
- Location-aware search
- Community reviews and ratings
- Store detail pages
- Posts, comments, likes, follows, and favorites
- Visit and proximity-aware review flow
- Turkish, English, German, and Russian product experience
- Anonymous browsing
- Google and email OTP authentication
Engineering
- Next.js, React, and TypeScript frontend
- Browser → Next.js BFF → Go API architecture
- Modular Go backend with a REST API
- PostgreSQL and PostGIS for location-aware data
- Google Cloud Run and Cloud Storage infrastructure
- Google Cloud Secret Manager
- Google Identity Services, Google Places, Gmail API, and OpenAI integrations
- Google-provided store data kept visibly separate from Boşa Gezme! community data
Product Philosophy
Boşa Gezme! is built around physical-world usefulness: reducing wasted trips, keeping data sources clear, and bringing community experiences into a simple discover → visit → review loop.
Live Product
Visit bosagezme.com to explore Boşa Gezme!