Note sull'episodio
Guest: Selin Türman — Community Manager, Burgas Coliving · Founder, Co Club
Based: Burgas Coliving, Bulgaria
I'm in the courtyard at Burgas Coliving with Selin, my first guest here in Bulgaria, and we aren't alone. Sat with us is her first printed copy of Recipes that Build Communities: Summer Edition, fresh from the printers. "Until I had it in my hand, it felt like a joke. Like a dream." This is what happens when you give a community manager who loves feeding people the space to create something. You get a cookbook that matters.
But this conversation isn't just about recipes. It's about how one person has built community through food, code and curation: from a seasonal cookbook, to an AI chatbot that helps nomads cook for a crowd, to Co Club, a platform that's reimagining how digital nomads find home. One subscription, credits the way ClassPass does it, and eighteen co-livings on it so far, every one of them with her name on the recommendation. "I don't have to put my hand on the stove to know that it's hot."
Along the way Selin shares something many guests decline to discuss: her genuine passion for AI, and what it means for community building. Co Club was built with Lovable and vibe-coding, no traditional coding required, because she wanted to build it, not because she studied computer science. You don't have to be technical to build something technical. Once you see that it's possible, the fear falls away.
Timestamps
00:00 Introduction: people with interesting lives, and welcome Selin
00:29 The cookbook arrived yesterday: “until I had it in my hand, it felt like a joke”
01:42 Like a baby: the Summer Edition, and maybe the other three seasons after all
02:28 Every recipe has a story: shared dinners at Duo, the Azores, and coffee by the ocean
04:50 Why food: a year and a half as community manager, and always on the cooking team
07:43 A cookbook on every bed, and Katya’s point that some people hate cooking
08:48 Ask Selin: an AI chatbot that cooks for eight, and a cookbook the community adds to
11:37 Co Club was vibe-coded: you don’t have to be technical, and the dawn of a new era
13:15 Why Lovable: a master’s thesis on AI tools, Nordic startups, and an interview with Victor
16:56 The butterfly effect: from WhatsApp photo albums to a booking platform
19:21 Modelling excellence: a recipe is copying someone who did it well
21:14 Ibi’s AI setup: the $200 plan, prompts that run all day, and six solutions visualised
25:13 The handpan example: a viral video, six agents, and four hours instead of two days
30:35 What Co Club is: ClassPass credits for co-livings
33:04 Pay one rent and the whole world is home: Barcelona, and dropping the word “subscription”
36:23 Tax deductibility, and earning credits by photographing the Sunday board
37:51 Curation is what I pay for: psychologists, therapists and that uncle
39:33 Eighteen co-livings: “you don’t have to put your hand on the stove to know it’s hot”
Remaining timestamps are in the full write-up linked below.
Full write-up and transcript: https://www.ibimalik.com/podcast/selin-turman
Guest Instagram: https://instagram.com/selinturman
Watch: https://youtu.be/es-hzg562cQ