Utku Oymak

Software engineer with takes

[Utku Oymak @koushotOU]

After weeks of building, Carte AI is live: https://t.co/1CIwNSS011

I wanted a tool that treats a menu like the room. Designed, voiced, intentional. Most restaurant menus today are Word docs someone screenshotted onto a QR builder. Most "AI menu generators" hand you a one-shot PDF and call it done.

Carte is the design-partner version. You sit with the agent like a designer, chat-refine, comment on a specific dish, undo any turn, restore wild ideas. When the menu is right, one publish freezes a permanent edition: a hosted mobile page, a branded QR card, and a print-ready PDF, all rendered from the same source. Each edition lives on its own URL forever. The QR you print today still resolves in five years.

Five hand-designed templates Classic, French Cotton, Italian Linen, Japanese Washi, Ottoman Parchment each with codified typography and voice. A kaiseki menu shouldn't read like a brasserie.

Free to draft as long as you want. $4.99 when you publish. No subscription.

The same product serves a restaurant chain and a single dinner party for six.

If you try it, I'd love your feedback. 🍽️

[Utku Oymak @koushotOU]

I wanted a blog on the same domain as my app. Normally that's a separate static site, a subdomain, a second deploy pipeline, a weekend lost to DNS.

I dropped a route, wrote markdown, shipped it that afternoon.

Good DX didn't make me happier. It made the feature exist.

[Utku Oymak @koushotOU]

Does your app actually need React Server Components? Or have you just been told it does? Most people cannot answer that question. That is not a technical limitation.

[Utku Oymak @koushotOU]

@heyblake Been working on this for a while, finally i can share it

https://t.co/FtxEPvPcT8

[Utku Oymak @koushotOU]

After weeks of building, Carte AI is live: https://t.co/1CIwNSS011

I wanted a tool that treats a menu like the room. Designed, voiced, intentional. Most restaurant menus today are Word docs someone screenshotted onto a QR builder. Most "AI menu generators" hand you a one-shot PDF and call it done.

Carte is the design-partner version. You sit with the agent like a designer, chat-refine, comment on a specific dish, undo any turn, restore wild ideas. When the menu is right, one publish freezes a permanent edition: a hosted mobile page, a branded QR card, and a print-ready PDF, all rendered from the same source. Each edition lives on its own URL forever. The QR you print today still resolves in five years.

Five hand-designed templates Classic, French Cotton, Italian Linen, Japanese Washi, Ottoman Parchment each with codified typography and voice. A kaiseki menu shouldn't read like a brasserie.

Free to draft as long as you want. $4.99 when you publish. No subscription.

The same product serves a restaurant chain and a single dinner party for six.

If you try it, I'd love your feedback. 🍽️

[Utku Oymak @koushotOU]

The coding is getting easier. The engineering is not.

[Utku Oymak @koushotOU]

@the_real_ori Something I’ve been cooking up

[Utku Oymak @koushotOU]

After weeks of building, Carte AI is live: https://t.co/1CIwNSS011

I wanted a tool that treats a menu like the room. Designed, voiced, intentional. Most restaurant menus today are Word docs someone screenshotted onto a QR builder. Most "AI menu generators" hand you a one-shot PDF and call it done.

Carte is the design-partner version. You sit with the agent like a designer, chat-refine, comment on a specific dish, undo any turn, restore wild ideas. When the menu is right, one publish freezes a permanent edition: a hosted mobile page, a branded QR card, and a print-ready PDF, all rendered from the same source. Each edition lives on its own URL forever. The QR you print today still resolves in five years.

Five hand-designed templates Classic, French Cotton, Italian Linen, Japanese Washi, Ottoman Parchment each with codified typography and voice. A kaiseki menu shouldn't read like a brasserie.

Free to draft as long as you want. $4.99 when you publish. No subscription.

The same product serves a restaurant chain and a single dinner party for six.

If you try it, I'd love your feedback. 🍽️

[Utku Oymak @koushotOU]

The moment you add Turso, Litestream, and a CDN to your PHP+SQLite stack because you need two of anything, you are not simplifying. You are rebuilding Postgres with worse tooling and a vendor bill you cannot escape.

[Utku Oymak @koushotOU]

Absolute game changer. Now i might actually move everything away from ai sdk to tamstack

[TANSTACK @tan_stack]

30 seconds of spinners is not great UX. 🌀

@tanstack/ai now streams structured output straight into useChat. Pass a Zod schema, get a typed `partial` and `final` for free. ✨

Blog post link below 👇

[Utku Oymak @koushotOU]

The engineers writing "how we scaled to millions with microservices" have a platform team, an SRE army, and deployment tooling you are not going to get.

You are adopting the architecture without the support structure that makes it survivable.

[Utku Oymak @koushotOU]

Good DX is not developer happiness. It is whether your idea survives long enough to become code, or dies in your head on a Tuesday afternoon.

Every tool that fights you subtracts from the odds that feature ships.

[Utku Oymak @koushotOU]

GitHub silently un-merged 2,092 PRs across 230 repos for five hours and called it acceptable.

That is not a bug. That is a preview of what happens when the infrastructure layer stops feeling responsible for its output.

[Utku Oymak @koushotOU]

Implicit magic is a trap. Explicit magic is just magic.

The frameworks that know things about your code you don't are not being helpful. They're hiding the failure mode so it shows up in production instead of during development.

[Utku Oymak @koushotOU]

@rezoundous I can comfortably run gpt with full permissions while i get anxiety just thinking about opus having shell access…

[Chris @everestchris6]

this OpenClaw bot finds local businesses with no branded gear, AI mocks up their logo on the right product, and runs the entire sale on autopilot.

here's how anyone can use this system to land local business clients:

- scrapes every indie business in a city from Google Maps in real time
- filters by review count, rating, and industry vertical
- maps each vertical to the right product
- pulls the logo + samples the palette from their actual visual identity
- AI-renders a photoreal mockup of the logo on the product
- writes a postcard with the owner's first name + a personalized buy link
- when they scan + pay, a print-on-demand API auto-prints + ships direct to the business

every step from discovery to fulfillment is automated.

reply "LOCAL" + RT and I'll send you a free guide so you can build this too

[Utku Oymak @koushotOU]

@everestchris6 LOCAL

[Utku Oymak @koushotOU]

@sama Please, Ui design and frontend. Codex models would become the only model i use if openai gets this right.

[Utku Oymak @koushotOU]

@elonmusk Well that is life…

[Utku Oymak @koushotOU]

You see Pieter's htop screenshot.
You spin up PHP + SQLite on a $5 VPS.
Three months later you're paying Litestream and Turso and a CDN—and your queries are still slow.
That's not simple. That's complexity you didn't earn.

[Utku Oymak @koushotOU]

"Regressions are acceptable" is how teams launder accountability.

Nobody read the 10,000 line PR. Nobody can be blamed. The bug is just weather.

That is not coping. That is permission to ship worse.

[Utku Oymak @koushotOU]

https://t.co/hplOxFVIMF

[Utku Oymak @koushotOU]

Local LLMs will not replace Claude for real coding work. They also will not get a second chance if the hype oversells them and they disappoint a developer on day one. The well is being poisoned by the same people who claim they are helping it.