Tim Cadenbach
Creator of www.smoower.com, ex Head of community @DeepL, thinking about AI, DevRel, Code and Community
Latest Posts
Sovereignty Has No Free Tier
I tried to run a side project without a single US company touching it. Turns out Cloudflare's free tier makes building almost free, and nothing in Europe or Germany comes close. That missing free tier is quietly killing companies before they're ever founded.
The Companies AI Can't See
Smoower scans more than a thousand orgs a day, and the clearest pattern is not who's winning DevRel. It's how many companies are functionally invisible to AI agents. No real README, no llms.txt, nothing an agent can use to understand what they do. Here's why that's the next visibility crisis, and what we're doing about it.
DevRel Has Been Invisible for Too Long. That's Why I'm Building Smoower.
Every DevRel team I've watched get cut in the last two years was cut because nobody at the top could see what they did. Smoower is my answer to that. An index that makes the work visible, comparable, and impossible to ignore.
We Should Be Thanking Spotify
Ninety-six percent of engineers code with music on. Spotify, Apple Music, and the lo-fi streams of the internet are doing more for productivity than half of your wellness benefits combined, and nobody says it out loud.
Recent Projects
Drop-in proxy to make any MCP server, LLM and any HTTP+JSON API speak multiple languages easily. Powered by DeepL..and it can do way more!
Desktop application for Windows and Mac that gives live, translated, subtitles and translated audio for ANY audio on your system. Youtube, Discord..you name it!
DeepL for Visual Studio Code
A library that turns your model into a fully working API, define your model as markdown (soon), json or c#.