Tim Cadenbach
Creator of www.smoower.com, ex Head of community @DeepL, thinking about AI, DevRel, Code and Community
Latest Posts
Sorry, This Repo Only Speaks German
Germany is short more than a hundred thousand IT people, our cities are full of developers who work in English all day, and our public sector code politely locks them all out. The official language argument is real, and it's also being applied to the wrong layer.
EA Just Sold for $55 Billion. At Least It Wasn't Microsoft.
The biggest leveraged buyout in history closed yesterday and one of the biggest game companies on earth now belongs to Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund, Silver Lake, and Jared Kushner. I'm relieved about exactly one thing, and worried about most of the rest.
Everyone Says SaaS Is Dead. It's Worse Than That.
SaaS the delivery model is fine. SaaS the business model, per-seat pricing, rigid feature sets, sales-led everything, is quietly falling apart, and the vendors know it. Here's what I think replaces it, with the disclosure that I have a horse in this race.
Where Are Claude's Data Centers? Fine, Here's the Actual Answer
People keep landing on this blog after googling where Claude's data centers are, and until now there was no answer here. So here it is: Indiana, mostly. Plus a tour of the gigawatt monsters OpenAI, xAI, Meta and Mistral are building, with all the nerdy numbers.
Smoower
Tailored tasks, blog drafts, and video scripts for your DevRel team.
Smoower watches your repos, releases, and issues, plus what devs say about you on Reddit, Hacker News, YouTube and more. Each teammate gets the next task worth doing and a draft worth shipping, with the source signal attached.
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Smoower Coach · what your team ships next
Add an llms.txt so assistants surface your docs correctly
chat.openai.com and perplexity.ai cite competitor docs on 4 of your top 10 keywords.
Cordango
Stop buying software. Start operating.
An AI-composable business OS made in Germany. Describe the internal app you need in plain language and Cordango builds, hosts, and secures it. EU hosted and GDPR compliant.
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Recent Projects
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!
A library that turns your model into a fully working API, define your model as markdown (soon), json or c#.