More than twenty thousand new games launched on Steam last year. Ninety-nine percent of them came from small independent teams. Two people. Five people. Working nights, betting years of their lives on a single launch.

And most of those teams run into the same quiet problem: real playtest infrastructure has always belonged to AAA studios. [pause] There are testing platforms out there, but they serve the big studios, or cover only a piece of the workflow. Today, that changes. And it changes from İstanbul. This is BugFist: fully managed cloud playtesting for indie game studios. In the next few minutes you will see the product running live, the market waiting for it, and why Türkiye is exactly where this category should be built.

The problem. AAA studios have playtest infrastructure. Indie studios hand-stitch a substitute, and they pay for it on every release, in three ways.

Our solution is one managed workflow that replaces that chain. The developer deploys a build to the cloud, we stream it to the tester's browser, structured reports come back, and the developer reviews everything in one dashboard. One tool, no installs on either side. Each card answers the matching problem.

Why now. This problem was not solvable in 2020 to 2023. It is solvable in 2025 and 2026, because three things shifted.

Demand. New Steam releases grew from about 8,900 to over 20,000 a year, and about 99 percent of those are indie. More builds shipping means more playtesting demand.

Infrastructure. Custom WebRTC and six-figure GPU capex gave way to pay-as-you-go when AWS GameLift Streams launched in March 2025. A two-person team can now afford what only AAA could build.

Communities. Indies cluster in niche, active scenes: genre communities, game jams, itch.io. Global Game Jam alone produced over 12,000 games in one weekend, from 35,000 jammers.

The market. We measure a reachable market of about 4,100 small studios: teams of 1 to 20 people. 675 in Türkiye and about 3,450 across the European Union.

Our Year-3 target is deliberately sober: about 200 paying studios, inside a 180 to 480 band. That is a single-digit percent of the segment, built bottom-up from named channels, not top-down.

The value per studio is about 2,500 dollars a year, blended. And to be precise: that is a market-sizing input, not a revenue forecast.

For context, the global indie game market is around 9.9 billion dollars, and game QA services run from 1.1 to roughly 5 billion dollars, dominated by enterprise vendors like Keywords Studios at 879 million. The indie tier is structurally unserved.

Competition. Four capabilities matter to an indie studio: cloud streaming, structured bug reports, a reputation-weighted tester pool, and indie pricing. No rival combines all four in one workflow. Each competitor solves one or two, and to our knowledge, none is Türkiye-origin.

We are honest on this slide: the enterprise QA vendors test on real console and mobile hardware, and Antidote's UX research is deeper than ours today.

But Antidote is also our best proof. A funded company in Barcelona running the same cloud-streamed model at scale shows the model works. It just gates streaming to its 475 dollar Master tier, out of indie reach. BugFist serves exactly the tier it leaves out: indie studios, at indie price.

Where we are today: a live MVP with a real Bahçeşehir pilot. It is working today at bugfist.com, not slideware.

We presented it at Bahçeşehir University. Ten Game Design students have completed test rounds on the live MVP, and more than thirty are on the waitlist for the next rounds.

What is live right now: the developer flow, upload a build and run sessions. The tester flow, join and play in the browser. Structured reporting with severity classification. AWS GameLift Streams in production, and WebRTC streaming with zero install.

So, how do we reach that market of four thousand studios? With five Türkiye-first channels and zero paid acquisition. Everything is organic, and the groundwork starts six months before we even incorporate.

Financials, stated honestly. We are pre-revenue and self-funded, and we seek no capital.

The chart shows revenue posture, not a forecast. Year 1 is a free pilot: zero revenue, on purpose. At Beta, the first paying Türkiye studios come on board, at about 2,500 dollars per studio per year. The Year-3-plus dollar total is deliberately not drawn: we set it at incorporation. What we do publish is the count target, about 200 paying studios.

Three postures. Everything so far is self-funded: domain, hosting, modest AWS, founder time. We take zero Year-1 compensation, living from personal runway kept separate from company burn. And we operate rather than exit: long-term reinvestment in Türkiye, not an M&A timeline.

Why we are a strong fit for the Start-up track. Seven reasons.

One: we are foreign and eligible on all four criteria, and rooted in Türkiye, studying at Bahçeşehir University in İstanbul. Two: we solve a real, worldwide problem; indie studios everywhere lack AAA-grade playtesting infrastructure. Three: the venture is innovative and technology-based, cloud-streamed on AWS GameLift Streams and KVKK-native. Four: we are technical founders, already invested; we built and self-funded the live MVP ourselves.

Five: Türkiye-first, native to local teams: KVKK-native data, the İyzico payment rail, and Türkiye onboards ahead of other markets. Six: it scales from Türkiye across the EU, built to grow beyond borders. Seven: we are ready to incorporate in an İstanbul technopark, in a category with no Türkiye player yet, to our knowledge.

The economic impact. Our thesis: Türkiye becomes the producer of this category, not the importer. Five concrete contributions.

Employment: two founder permits, about six roles by Year 3, and a tester community earning supplementary income that grows into the hundreds. Technological capacity: a Türkiye-first build, the first GameLift Streams and KVKK-native playtest platform here to our knowledge, multiplied through BAU and BUG Lab. Export: foreign currency from day one, as service export under Decree 32. Social: an education-to-industry path from BAU, portable tester reputations, low-hardware browser access. Business environment: spend stays in Türkiye, anchored in the İstanbul technopark cluster.

And five years out, as vision, not roadmap: run from İstanbul for Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, with a tester community in the thousands. Türkiye exports at the platform layer, after TaleWorlds, Peak Games and Dream Games did it at the title layer.

To close. BugFist brings the cloud playtest infrastructure only AAA studios had to indie game studios: deploy, test, report, review, in one managed workflow, built and run from İstanbul, Türkiye.

The MVP is live, with ten Bahçeşehir testers and thirty-plus on the waitlist. The Year-3 target is a sober 200 paying studios. We are self-funded, eligible, and ready to incorporate.

Thank you. We are Hessam and Shayan, and you can reach us at op@bugfist.com.