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The App Founders Sunset Yacht Party.

RevenueCat x Neon Apps, the evening of 15 May 2026. A yacht on the Bosphorus, boarding at Bebek, 30 app founders, sold out at 32. No programme, which was the point.

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We ran the RevenueCat x Neon Apps App Founders Sunset Yacht Party on the evening of 15 May 2026. Boarding was at Bebek, on the European side. 30 founders and people who build in the app ecosystem came, and the listing sold out at 32.

The stated purpose was the only one it had: strengthen professional networks and let people trade experience. There was no talk, no panel and no agenda.

Guests on the deck of the RevenueCat and Neon Apps App Founders Sunset Yacht Party on the Bosphorus in Istanbul, May 2026
On the deck, between Bebek and the bridge.
App founders talking around a table at the RevenueCat and Neon Apps Sunset Yacht Party on the Bosphorus in Istanbul
One table, and a few hours of nowhere else to be.
Guests beside the Neon Apps banner on board the App Founders Sunset Yacht Party on the Bosphorus in Istanbul
Golden hour, which is what the boat was booked for.

Why we run these

Standing, hiring, and information. People know who we are, so a team that later needs a product built rather than a paywall fixed is not receiving a cold email from strangers. We hire out of these rooms. And we learn what the market is stuck on months before any report would tell us.

I would rather write that down than let it be inferred. The version where a company does this purely out of generosity is not true anywhere and it is not true here.

Everything else written here comes out of the same place: work done for other companies, at a volume that made the patterns visible.

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