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Doğukan Karakaş

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technical writer @whop, Discord Partner, sci-fi fan

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Doğukan Karakaş’s Biography

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It's simple: I write, manage, and create!

I work as a Technical Writer and Content Strategist at Whop and have an art degree from Budapest Metropolitan University! I've been using Discord since 2016, and I accumulated extensive knowledge of it and became an official Discord Partner in 2021.

I create content about Star Wars and Warhammer 40.000 in my spare time. I founded the largest Turkish Star Wars community and still run it.

Oh, and I love traveling! Countries I've been to: Austria, France, …

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Making A Great Server & Building A Home For Your Community

Making A Great Server & Building A Home For Your Community

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What is Discord?

What is Discord?

Discord is a multimedia chat app with over 140 million monthly users. But what is a Discord server, and why i…

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What is a Discord Server?

What is a Discord Server?

A Discord server is a virtual space where you can communicate with other people. Read this guide to understan…

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Growing And Promoting Your Discord Server

Growing And Promoting Your Discord Server

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How to Make a Discord Server

How to Make a Discord Server

A comprehensive step-by-step guide on setting up a Discord server, covering everything from understanding Dis…

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How to Use Discord Bots

How to Use Discord Bots

All you need to know about Discord bots, including why you should use them, how they work, how to add bots to…

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How to add a paywall to your app or website

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By Doğukan Karakaş
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We just shipped a tutorial on adding a paywall to an existing Next.js app with Whop. The whole thing runs without a database and without webhooks. The visitor opens a locked page, pays inside an embedded checkout, and the page unlocks in place. Identity comes from the receipt; entitlement is checked live on every render.
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Adding user authentication to a Next.js app with Whop OAuth

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By Doğukan Karakaş, TopStar AI
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TopStar AI Automation-focused AI Developer specializing in production LLM agent systems — tool-calling agents, multi-step orchestration, and RAG pipelines over vector databases Email Location Mexico Education National Autonomous University of Mexico Pronouns 10+ years full-stack, the last several building agentic AI wired directly into live systems Joined
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I built a full Linktree clone with Next.js and Whop

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By Doğukan Karakaş
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I spent a few days building a Linktree clone. Public creator pages with free links anyone can click and premium links gated behind a one-time payment. Creators set their own unlock price, drag links into the order they want, and pick from a palette of accent colors. The whole thing is on GitHub. The dashboard and the public profile page were the parts I expected to take time. They didn't, honestly — standard React with react-server-actions and dnd-kit.
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