# Adem Isler

> Product builder and software developer based in Le Havre, France, working across software, commerce, design, and AI.

This is the official personal website of Adem Isler. The primary language is English. Canonical URLs use https://www.ademisler.com.

## Main pages

- [Home](https://www.ademisler.com/): Profile and short biography.
- [Projects](https://www.ademisler.com/projects/): Selected software, product, and creative work.
- [Blog](https://www.ademisler.com/blog/): Writing on software, products, design, AI, and systems.

## Published projects

- [RunOnMine](https://www.ademisler.com/projects/runonmine/): A local-first MCP security gateway and desktop control center for giving AI controlled access to files, terminals, browsers, and desktop apps on machines you own.
- [Myna Player](https://www.ademisler.com/projects/myna-player/): A local-first AI video player that transcribes ahead of playback, translates with context, and renders subtitles at the correct moment.
- [Ternrise](https://www.ademisler.com/projects/ternrise/): A full-stack marketplace that connects immigration clients with consultants and lawyers, from discovery through booking and case communication.
- [CodexControl](https://www.ademisler.com/projects/codexcontrol/): A local-first desktop application for reading live Codex quota windows and switching the active local account on macOS and Windows.
- [CodexPigeon](https://www.ademisler.com/projects/codexpigeon/): A repo-local mailbox that lets people guide long-running Codex work without interrupting the active conversation or injecting a new turn.
- [Codex Desktop Custom Models](https://www.ademisler.com/projects/codex-desktop-custom-models/): An open-source starter kit for running isolated Codex Desktop apps with custom model providers, separate state, and local automations.
- [ChefRise](https://www.ademisler.com/projects/chefrise/): A gamified mobile cooking companion with AI recipes, pantry tools, skill progression, social sharing, and guided cooking workflows.
- [RetailOps Bridge](https://www.ademisler.com/projects/retailops-bridge/): A Shopify app that helps POS merchants migrate away from Stocky without losing operational history, suppliers, or replenishment context.
- [RefundLedger](https://www.ademisler.com/projects/refundledger/): A read-only Shopify analytics app that exposes SKU-level refund leakage and shows where returns are quietly eroding margin.
- [Carenly](https://www.ademisler.com/projects/carenly/): A shared coordination product for caregiving families and co-parents, combining plans, tasks, documents, decisions, and communication.
- [ContentAgent](https://www.ademisler.com/projects/contentagent/): A WordPress content automation workspace for planning, drafting, improving, and publishing AI-assisted editorial content.
- [SalesAgent](https://www.ademisler.com/projects/salesagent/): A proactive WordPress AI assistant that starts page-aware conversations and helps turn website visits into qualified sales interactions.

## Published writing

- [The Best AI Products Do Less](https://www.ademisler.com/blog/the-best-ai-products-do-less/): Why the strongest AI products resist feature sprawl, narrow their job, and turn broad model capability into something reliable and useful.
- [Local-First Is Not a Feature. It Is a Product Decision.](https://www.ademisler.com/blog/local-first-is-not-a-feature/): Local-first is more than offline mode. It is an architectural choice about data ownership, authority, resilience, synchronization, and user control.
- [Building Software Around Existing Systems Instead of Replacing Them](https://www.ademisler.com/blog/building-software-around-existing-systems/): Why companion products, translation layers, and incremental modernization often create more value than replacing the systems people already use.
- [The Real Interface for AI Is Context, Not Chat](https://www.ademisler.com/blog/the-real-interface-for-ai-is-context-not-chat/): Why context, not an empty chat box, is the real interface of useful AI and what context engineering changes about product design.

## Optional

- [RSS feed](https://www.ademisler.com/rss.xml): Machine-readable feed of published writing.
- [XML sitemap](https://www.ademisler.com/sitemap.xml): Canonical indexable URLs.
- [Crawler policy](https://www.ademisler.com/robots.txt): Search and AI crawler access policy.