Built by a gamer
who always ended up
running the server.

For as long as I've played games, I've enjoyed building the infrastructure around them almost as much as playing them. I was usually the one setting up the server, installing the plugins, hosting TeamSpeak, experimenting with networking — finding an overly complicated solution to a problem we could probably have solved by just paying for something.

So when the people I played with started paying for gaming network optimization products, building our own felt surprisingly natural. ZeroLag started from a simple idea: build something good enough that my friends and I genuinely want to use it ourselves. Then make it available to everyone else.

I don't want ZeroLag to be another internationally priced subscription that happens to be available in Turkey. I want it to be a product built with Turkish gamers in mind — technically strong, fairly priced for the local market, and shaped by the people actually using it.

I'm a software engineer from Turkey, currently based in London, and the solo developer behind ZeroLag. After graduating with a degree in Computer Engineering, I've worked across a range of companies, from startups to large international corporations.

But ZeroLag comes from a much more personal part of my relationship with technology: I've always enjoyed building things for the people around me. Game servers became plugins. Plugins became infrastructure. There were TeamSpeak servers, VPNs, networking experiments, and far too many evenings spent configuring things most people would simply pay someone else to provide.

ZeroLag is the ambitious version of that same instinct: start by building something my friends and I want to use, then make it available to gamers across Turkey, then see how far we can take it.

Some of the first people I want using ZeroLag are the same people I play games with. That's intentional. If someone's connection gets worse, I'll hear about it. If a route is terrible, they'll tell me. If another product works better for a particular game, I want to know why.

And as more people start using ZeroLag, I want to keep that same relationship with the wider community. ZeroLag should improve because the people actually playing games with it tell me what's working and what isn't.