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PocketGuide Inc.
PocketGuide is a GPS-based audio travel guide app that turns a smartphone into a hands-free personal tour guide. As travelers walk through a city, the app detects their location and plays professionally produced commentary from local narrators about nearby landmarks, restaurants and hidden corners. Founded in Hungary in 2009 by Martin Retai and later incorporated with a US presence in Redwood City, PocketGuide grew to cover more than 150 cities across five continents, with tours that work offline to avoid roaming charges.
Gergely Orosz
Gergely Orosz is the Hungarian-born, Amsterdam-based author behind The Pragmatic Engineer, the #1 technology newsletter on Substack with over 1 million readers. A former engineering manager at Uber who helped build payments infrastructure processing $65B+ annually, he left Big Tech in 2021 to write independently. He covers software engineering careers, Big Tech culture, and the AI-driven transformation of the industry - earning $1.5M+ per year from subscriptions alone, with zero ads or sponsors.