A Stationless Bicycle Project from a 16-Year-Old Turkish Entrepreneur!

Those who play football games know, players with high potential and skills beyond their age “wonderkidThese players show from the very first moments that they have the necessary skills for the job they do, but they need to be supported to reach their potential. 16 year old programmer Mert Ozkul also attracted the attention of the Turkish entrepreneurship ecosystem as a wonderkidi.

Young entrepreneur, BinBin, Seagullhop and belongs to Kayseri Transportation Inc. From KayBis He was working on 2wheels for the ‘Stationless Bicycle Rental’ project, which he set out with inspiration. Özkul shared his difficulties with the public with a post he made on LinkedIn a month ago.

His call from LinkedIn prompted companies to take action.

Mert Özkul, who both develops software and hardware and deals with all other works for the project in his mind, development process and difficulties had shared.

IoT-based project now financially Saying that he started to push himself too hard, the young man said, ” I wrote everything about the application, server-side codes, administration panel, but about the hardware. I was left in the middle due to financial insufficiency.. The parts of my IoT cost an average of 800TL. The ready-to-sell IoTs are around 2500TL and are not as open to development as mine. If I can find the funding, I will redesign the PCB and produce and box an industrial-grade circuit. It will be integrated into every bike.‘ he had declared.

This post of Özkul was liked by thousands of people in a short time. There were quite interesting names in the comments under the post.

Moreover, many of these names wanted to help Mert Özkul in this attempt…

One of the first supports came from İlhan Yılmaz, the CEO of Monster, who sent the young entrepreneur a laptop to help them with their projects.

Martı’s founding partners also showed their support…

…And finally, young entrepreneur Mert Özkul announced that he could continue the 2Wheel project at full speed without having financial problems.

After sharing, Özkul is almost one of the leading initiatives of our country. support poured in. Explaining on Instagram that Martı, BinBin, Greyhound, isBike Teltonika and many other companies have reached him, the young entrepreneur announced that the money needed for the prototype has also been collected. We congratulate this 16-year-old entrepreneur, We hope that he will announce his success to the whole world.