Open to work
I'm Oliver. I built oktass.hu and Balaton Life. If you need a hand with a site, marketing or AI, write to me. I take jobs and projects, and we can also just sit down for an hour. That's €45.
Open to work
Projects
Most of what I do hangs off these. One is a tutor search for the whole of Hungary. The other is Lake Balaton, gathered in one place.
Since 2019
The biggest private-tutor search in Hungary. Teachers, material and lessons, online or in person, in Budapest and around the country. I registered the domain in February 2016. The site went live in early 2019, with 52 tutors who were in from the start. I still run it.
Where people are free not to study, the wish to learn has a real chance of waking up.
2026
Lake Balaton, as it is right now. News, a weekly guide, a calendar, weather and water temperature. For people who live there, people heading there, and anyone who just doesn't want to miss it. I put it together in spare time over the last few months, with Claude, Composer and Grok. The stories go out on their own, through Grok.
The Hungarian sea, in one place you can actually use.
The first site of mine that actually worked was demotivator.hu. It ran for three years. Since 2010 I've also built and looked after sites for other people. If yours is next, write.
About
Oliver Dajka
I made oktass.hu and Balaton Life
I was born in Budapest. I've lived in the UK, in California and in Scotland. These days I live in Ericeira, in Portugal. The two projects above come out of that.
I've liked nature and technology together since the web first reached me in the nineties. I still pick work that way.
I grew up in Budapest. After that I lived in the UK, in California and in Scotland. Scotland was Aberdeen, for the degree. In the UK I was also in Tenbury Wells, for A-levels. I live on the Portuguese coast now, in Ericeira.
From 2007 to 2009 I did A-levels at Saint Michael’s College in Tenbury Wells. From 2009 to 2014 I studied computer science at the University of Aberdeen and left with an MSci, plus an industrial placement.
I needed money, so I worked in a fast-food place and in the kitchen. In second year a classmate asked if I'd take a first-year he couldn't teach anymore. I hesitated, then said yes. Good call. I earned more, worked fewer hours, and teaching made the subject clearer in my own head. Within a year I didn't need the restaurant. That first pupil's thanks is what made me brave enough to take the next one.
I wasn't a teacher's favourite, and nobody held me up as the pupil to copy. The subjects I cared about, I did well in. Computing was one of them. I was in one of the first groups who were actually taught it at school.
At some point it clicked. Education and school don't really walk together. A lot of why learning has a bad name is the compulsory frame around it. The line on oktass.hu comes from there. Where you're allowed not to study, wanting to know something has a chance.
Since 2010 I've run websites and done online marketing. The short version: technical project management on the internet. The site, the campaigns, the content, and whatever sits under them.
I moved back to Budapest in 2014. The oktass idea was already old by then. I just didn't have the time, or the will, to build it. Planning started in early 2018, building in the middle of the year, and the site opened at the start of 2019. I spoke to a lot of the 52 founding tutors in person. The best moment is still when a teacher and a student find each other. Same feeling as when something clicked for a pupil of mine. I just know now that they'll have a lot of those moments between them.
Building things is mostly a hobby again. AI isn't. I didn't want to watch it from the side, so I started building with it. Balaton Life is what came out of that. Claude, Composer and Grok help me shape it, and the stories go out through Grok.
I garden. I like travelling, especially somewhere warm. Home right now is Ericeira. And I have room for work. If it's a site, marketing, AI or strategy, write. If an hour is enough, book one.
Open to work
Sites, marketing, AI, and getting AI into the work you already do. Also where the online side of a business should go. I work with people whose work I can get behind.
Send a noteWhat I can help with
The site, the profiles, and whether a stranger gets it in the first minute. What should stay, and what can go.
Content, ads, newsletters, search, social. The kind that has a job to do.
Where it actually helps, where it just looks clever, and which tool is worth your time. I try things on my own sites first.
Putting it into something you already run. Writing, publishing, support, the work inside the team. Set up so you can keep it going.
What to build, what to leave alone, and how you'll know it was worth it. For the next few months.
An hour
45 € / hour
A site, marketing, AI, putting it into the work, or the bigger picture. The longer version, and the booking, are on the consultancy page.
Book a timeContact
A job, a project, or a question. This form emails me, and I reply from there. If you want an hour, book it on the consultancy page.