FALDIUM — AI-Powered Turkish Coffee Fortune Telling Experience
The Goal
Reimagine the traditional Turkish coffee fortune telling experience through AI, transforming a deeply rooted cultural ritual into a modern, mobile-first entertainment product.
In Turkish culture, people often drink Turkish coffee, close the cup afterward, and interpret the remaining coffee grounds (“fortune reading”) together as a social and entertaining experience. Faldium brings this ritual into the digital world using AI-generated storytelling and voice experiences.
Status
Live on Google Play
Timeline
Built as a side project alongside a full-time role
Core Role
End-to-end Product Ownership (Strategy, UX/UI Design, Development, AI Experience Design, Backend Architecture, Launch)
The Approach
The product was designed around speed, delight, and emotional engagement.
Users can simply upload photos of their coffee cup, and Faldium generates entertaining AI-powered fortune readings with playful, conversational storytelling. The experience is enhanced with voice narration, making the interaction feel more immersive and human.
To minimize friction and maximize accessibility, the onboarding flow was intentionally designed to be extremely lightweight, supporting:
Google Sign-In
Magic Link authentication
The platform also includes an archive system where users can revisit and reread their previous fortune readings at any time.
Technology Stack
FlutterFlow for rapid mobile development
Supabase (PostgreSQL/Auth/RLS) for backend infrastructure
AI-driven prompt workflows for fortune interpretation and storytelling
Claude/ChatGPT-assisted development workflows and copywriting
Key Ownership Areas
Product Strategy
Transforming a culturally familiar offline habit into a scalable digital entertainment experience.
UX/UI Design
Designing emotionally engaging mobile interactions focused on simplicity, delight, and fast user activation.
AI Experience Design
Crafting prompts, conversational tone, and storytelling flows to create fun, fluid, and personality-driven fortune readings instead of robotic outputs.
Technical Architecture
Building scalable backend structures, authentication flows, relational databases, Row Level Security (RLS), and AI-integrated workflows.
Execution
Managing the entire lifecycle independently from ideation to production launch.
Reach & Localization
Although the product is currently available only in Turkish, it organically reached users across 27 countries — including Germany — demonstrating international curiosity and discoverability around culturally-driven AI experiences.
Impact
Faldium demonstrates the ability to combine: cultural insight, AI-assisted interaction design, rapid product execution, and end-to-end technical ownership into a production-ready entertainment platform built and launched independently.
