ÜcretHub
Turkey's first anonymous salary transparency platform. Privacy-first, data-driven.
Problem
Salary information has long been taboo in Turkey. Employees navigate their own worth in the dark — no market data, no comparison points, weak negotiation leverage.
Employers lack reliable references to set competitive compensation. Both sides make decisions with incomplete information, resulting in a distorted market-wide equilibrium.
Approach
We built an architecture that guarantees anonymity: no user registration, no IP logging, no personal data storage. Salary inputs are presented as aggregates, tracing a single submission is mathematically impossible.
The platform only produces aggregated statistics — by industry, years of experience, location. No matter how much detail a user provides, raw data can never be queried in isolation on the server side.
Technical Decisions
Why Next.js?
SEO is critical — salary searches in Turkey start on Google. Server-rendered pages and ISR gave us both search engine reach and snappy user experience.
Why a Python backend?
Aggregate statistics — median, percentiles, standard deviation — are dramatically more performant and readable with scipy/numpy. Node handles the web, Python handles analytics.
Data pipeline
User inputs are stored encrypted in PostgreSQL; nightly ETL jobs refresh the aggregate tables. Raw data never reaches the frontend.
Outcome
2000+ anonymous salary submissions in the first six months, reliable reference points across 15+ industries. Featured in Turkish tech media. Users commented that 'having data at hand during negotiation changed my life'.