About me

Choosing a software for your unique purpose should be a totally delightful experience! 

But yes, I know that this is unfortunately not always the case. 

My name is Aleksi Mänttäri (Ah-le-ksi Mant-ta-ri, but you can totally call me Alex), and I am a 27 year old business graduate from Helsinki, Finland. Finland is kind of like Sweden but with a great twist that I won’t go to in too much detail here. 

Ever since I was an overly energetic teenager I have been super excited about the technological development of the world. I studied tons of science and tech magazines and books, and watched hours of content feeling dazzled most of the time. Nowadays I do that even more and with even greater passion.

My sincere goal is to help you become almost as excited about these things as I am, because I believe that it could make your life a bit sunnier.

Trying to solve at least some of the problems in the world

One of the reasons I started loving technological innovations was that I knew there were a lot of bad things going on in the world, but at least there seemed to be a great number of enthusiastic people trying to solve some of these problems via technological innovations. This really brought me hope, even though some of the inventions surely didn’t really solve the biggest problems in the world. The innovations were still insanely cool and brought joy to people using them, and that too has a lot of value in my opinion. And of course some of the innovations really did solve some big problems, which is even better. 

Soft spot for softwares

Especially for the past few years I have had a special soft spot (pun totally a happy coincidence) for softwares compared to physical products. There are three main reasons for this:

1. It’s generally quite a lot more environmentally friendly to “buy” a software compared to buying a physical product 

    

2. It’s generally quite a lot easier to “return” a software if it doesn’t seem to fit your purpose perfectly by simply canceling the subscription. Often  they even have a free trial.

    

3. The world of softwares has quite quickly turned into a sort of a cradle of creativity not bound by the laws of the physical world. The future of softwares is incredibly exciting and impossible to predict. 

    

The problem of finding the best software

Already as a teenager I noticed a disappointing issue: nine times out of ten when I heard about a new type of software (or product for that matter) and tried to find objective information about the different options related to it, the quality of information was, well, not great. Either I could only find the not-so-objective information on the companies’ own websites, or at best an overly formal and dull review site that basically made me lose the excitement I had for the new thing. 

This in my opinion was and is an absolute tragedy. It is quite impossible to calculate the lost value in someone not choosing to express themselves via a new form of expression. If you, for example, start using a software that helps you become more you, it is an insanely valuable thing and greatly affects the people around you.

My dream of helping people and working for myself

That is one of the biggest reasons why in 2017 I went to study business. I wanted to learn how to connect the people with specific problems to the people who can, perhaps, solve some of these problems.

During my years of study I also worked at a startup event called Slush (if you don’t know what it is you should totally Google it. It is one of the best if not the best thing that comes from Finland). Seeing thousands of enthusiastic startup founders with some really crazy ideas blew my mind and made me realize that I want to be in many ways similar to them. I realized that I don’t want to just work for someone, I want to create the work for myself. 

If I had many lives I could spend some of them working for others, but since it seems like I don’t, I don’t want to waste my life on anything else but the best possible thing. Running my own website that revolves around the newest technological innovations that might bring joy to many people is super exciting, and if I can make a living for myself through that, it is just too perfect.

What I offer to my clients 

I offer reviews on softwares that are clear and informative. Still perhaps most importantly I will try my very best to write the reviews in a manner that brings joy to the reader.

The modest goal of Softwaremagnet is that after you have visited the site your mind is light, your heart is warm and your eyes are perhaps a bit wet because of the positive emotions evoked by the visit.