Bios, facts and photography.
Bios at three lengths, boilerplate, correct spellings and photography. Take what you need without asking.
- People
- 85
- Istanbul & New York
- Clients
- 300+
- enterprise to startup
- Apps shipped
- 600+
- for clients, since 2019
- Downloads
- 100M+
- client apps, 100+ countries
- Raised
- $0
- bootstrapped since 2019
Who is Tyler Blackford?
Written to be pasted as they are. Each one is self-contained and factually current as of August 2026.
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Tyler Blackford is founding partner of Neon Apps, an 85-person product development company in Istanbul and New York. Neon Apps has shipped more than 600 apps for over 300 clients, with over 100 million downloads worldwide, and has done it without raising outside investment. It is RevenueCat's official partner for the Turkish market.
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Tyler Blackford is founding partner of Neon Apps, a product development company with 85 people across offices in Istanbul and New York. Neon Apps runs product design, engineering, growth and consulting end to end for more than 300 companies, from enterprises including TAV Havalimanları, Pluxee and Onedio to global platforms including RevenueCat and Adapty. The company has shipped more than 600 apps with over 100 million downloads across 100 countries, and has grown to this size without raising outside investment. Since November 2025 it has been RevenueCat's official partner for the Turkish market.
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Tyler Blackford is founding partner of Neon Apps, a product development company with 85 people across offices in Istanbul and New York. Neon Apps runs product design, engineering, growth and consulting end to end on a single team, and more than 300 companies have handed it their entire mobile product. Clients range from Turkish enterprises including TAV Havalimanları, Pluxee, Tera Yatırım, Onedio and Tatilsepeti to global platforms and studios including RevenueCat, Adapty and Luni. The company has shipped more than 600 apps with over 100 million downloads across more than 100 countries, and trains much of its own workforce through Neon Academy. It was founded in 2019 and has never raised outside investment. Since November 2025 it has been RevenueCat's official partner for the Turkish market.
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Neon Apps is a product development company founded in 2019 with offices in Istanbul and New York. Its 85-person team delivers product design, engineering, growth and consulting end to end, and has shipped more than 600 apps with over 100 million downloads for over 300 clients worldwide. The company is bootstrapped and has never raised outside investment. Neon Apps is RevenueCat's official partner for the Turkish market.
Asked and answered.
The questions that come up in every interview, with the answers on the record. Quote any of them as they are.
What does Neon Apps do?
Product design, engineering, growth and consulting for other companies' mobile products, on one team and one contract. Most clients take all of it. Some take one part and keep the rest in-house, which is the same team either way.
Four disciplines, one contract.
Whose apps are the 600?
Other companies'. On every one of them we were the team behind the product, and the product was theirs. 600 apps for more than 300 companies, past 100 million downloads.
600+ apps for 300+ companies, since 2019.
How did Neon Apps start?
I was studying computer engineering when my business partner Destan and I decided to start building together. I had been developing mobile apps for years and started teaching her how to build them too, and eventually we decided to turn what we were doing into a company. We had no established network, no business playbook and no venture capital. We opened a small office with two desks and did almost everything ourselves: Destan on design, me on development.
Two students and two desks, Istanbul, 2019.
How did you get from 2 people to 85?
For the first couple of years we barely knew what lead generation was. One client introduced us to another, that client introduced us to someone else, and the projects kept coming. Later we could not hire experienced people quickly enough to keep up, so in 2023 we started teaching instead: Neon Academy takes someone with basic Figma or Swift and turns them into a working designer or developer. The first intake was 25, and several of them now lead teams.
2 in 2019, 50 by early 2023, 85 now.
Why has Neon Apps never raised investment?
We built Neon Apps without ever raising venture capital. There were difficult years, long stretches of uncertainty, and plenty of moments when carrying on was harder than stopping. We kept going. Eventually not raising stopped being a limitation and turned into a choice, because the years of building and failing and reinvesting had started to compound.
$0 raised, ever.
Why did you open a New York office?
We opened the New York operation to work directly with companies in the US, while the product and engineering organisation stayed in Istanbul. It is not a flag on a map: it is where the North American clients come from. Product and engineering stayed where the 600 apps happened.
New York, October 2024.
Why did you change your name?
A name is part of your go-to-market, and nobody warns you. I changed mine when we opened New York in 2024: Tuna Öztürk became Tyler Blackford, and American clients started reaching the second call. I am asked about this constantly, so I would rather it were on the record than whispered.
The name changed with the New York office, October 2024.
What does being RevenueCat's partner for Türkiye mean?
In November 2025 it became official: we are their partner for the Turkish market. It works because we had been building on RevenueCat for years before we ever partnered with them, across hundreds of subscription apps. It was also the first time the company had been asked to run part of somebody else's operation rather than build their product.
Official since November 2025.
Written about elsewhere.
Third-party reporting, in the language it was published in. Where a figure here disagrees with one on this site, the reporting is the older number.
- Yatırım almadan 85 kişilik ekibe | Tyler Blackford & Destan Keskinkılıç ile Neon Apps'in HikayesiThe full account, on camera, from both founders. Everything on the story page comes from here.
- RevenueCat partners with Neon Apps in TürkiyeThe other side of the partnership, announced on their own blog.
- Kant Labs, Anka Ventures'tan 250 bin dolar yatırım aldıThe App Growth Championship finale, and what came out of it.
- Neon Apps x RevenueCat App Growth ChampionshipVideo: the competition, and the team that flew to New York.
- Neon Apps ve RevenueCat, Türk uygulama geliştiricilerinin globalde büyümesi için iş birliği yaptıThe partnership, reported when it was announced.
- 600'den fazla mobil uygulama ile Neon Apps'in başarı hikayesiA profile of the company, by one of its own clients.
Everything else a desk needs.
Spellings and facts
- Tyler Blackford
- Tuna Öztürk
- Founding Partner, Neon Apps
- Neon Apps, founded 2019
- Destan Keskinkılıç, Founding Partner
- Istanbul, Türkiye · New York, USA
Both names appear in published coverage: Turkish-language sources through late 2024 use Tuna Öztürk. The reasons for the change are written up in full, and quotable.
