Laszlo L. MariI write about tech, business, science & life
About me
I've always been drawn to the forefront of technology. I started writing code as a teenager in Budapest and never really stopped. Since then I've lived in Munich, traveled frequently to LA, Shanghai, and New York, and now I live in Abu Dhabi. The part I actually enjoy is the new stuff: the tool that came out last week, the trend nobody's taking seriously yet.
By my early twenties I was shipping products used by millions of people. I interned at Google and worked on Blockfolio before it sold for around $100M. Pretty much everything after that I've built with Dakai, the company I co-founded. We're about fifty engineers, designers and product enthusiasts, split across Budapest and Abu Dhabi.
With the Dakai team I helped build 50+ projects, with some highlights such as Spin, which exited for around $100M, Spotify's internal tool for running its podcasts, Binance's NFT marketplace, and built the official Bitcoin wallet of the El Salvador government when bitcoin became legal tender. A fair bit of that work showed up in Forbes, The Economist and Bloomberg.
The work I like most sits where big institutions meet startup speed. I've built for enterprises and governments, and the fun part is getting them to move faster than they think they can: take some slow, tangled process, cut it down to the version that actually ships, and put it in front of real users. Lately that mostly means agentic AI.
I'm at my best somewhere between business, design, product and code, which is also why I'd rather be building than talking about it. I stay close to the frontier because that's where the interesting problems are. I always looked at technology as a tool for communicating ideas and solving problems.
This site is where I write about tech, business, science, and whatever side project I'm poking at. Some posts have small apps built right in, so you can play with them instead of just reading about them.