marek polcar

hi, I'm Marek and I like building things.

mostly I like finishing them. here are a few that are already running.

Marek Polcar

by day...

...I've been building software for 18 years

since 2008, through Brno, Auckland and Graz. at Ariki I build and run a data platform: Elasticsearch on 200+ servers, and next to it an internal LLM that drives the infrastructure instead of people in a console.

servers in the cluster
200+
of data
120 TB
documents per second
200k

by night...

...helping dog breeders for 10+ years

my mum breeds dogs and I've been around them all my life. so it happened that the biggest part of what I've ever built came from right here. the first version of Ťapka has been running since 2014 and breeders use it to this day.

Ťapka

Ťapka

since 2014

free websites for dog kennels. fill in your dogs and litters, the site builds itself.

Kyna

Kyna

2025

a puppy flyer from your own photos. AI, a few minutes, you see the result before you pay, 499 CZK.

and every morning...

...a routine kids walk through on their own

I have two small kids. you know how it is, every small systematic improvement counts. so I built Simple Kids Routine: a picture routine on the iPad, a timer on every step and a countdown to leaving the house. no account, no subscription. we use it every morning and it works great.

Simple Kids Routine homepage

and once, in Portugal...

...a website that ran for six years

in autumn 2014 I spent three months living by a river in central Portugal and built a website for the owners of the Retiro no Rio guesthouse. then I kept it running for six years: updates, contact forms in four languages, spam, outages. in 2020 they sold the quinta and the site retired with them.

Retiro no Rio homepage (2015)

and in between...

...building my own story too

home is not the only place I work from. these are the places I wrote from, in Czech.

want to build something together?

write me a few lines about what you're building.