Alexander De Ridder

SmythOS loves Posthog, an Open Source project that has become a mandatory technology to help us execute a product-led growth strategy. In essence, without posthog, we'd fly blind.

An Open Source project we love at SmythOS. Logto provides authentication like OAuth and replaces a $20K/month Okta service. Just incredible! The team is amazing as well. Highly recommended.

Runware is a fantastic provider of affordable infrastructure for AI and video generation. At SmythOS, we chose runware as our default partner because of cost, speed and quality of support.

Llama models + fine-tuning = Fast, Performance, Affordable. We use a blend of OpenAI, Anthropic and Llama for our SmythOS product. Usually when we start we use either OAI or Anthropic, and when something is popular/in scale demand, we then train a Llama model to speed things up and reduce costs. Synthetic data is where it's at. To do that, we build classifier agents in SmythOS, and we also build agents to evaluate and compare model providers and identify gaps in our data set.

I have to shout out the greatest product in history for making your product better. We use it at SmythOS for feature experiments all the time, and also for having the most amazing dashboards to understand our sales funnel. We used homegrown data lakes on AWS quicksight visualizations in the past. Let me tell you something ... posthog is 10,000% easier time to value. There's no comparison if you're building product. I love love love this product.

I'm not even sure what we'd do without Hubspot. All our email, customer support, customer records are here. It's so useful. One of the ways we use Hubspot is with a SmythOS agent that integrates with our TLDV note-taker. Once the transcript is ready, TLDV sends it to the agent, which then processes it and updates the Hubspot records. Because sales people suck at keeping records.

Clickup is a little overwhelming in terms of features. Is there anything it does not do? But it's become our go-to for all sprints etc. One way we benefit from clickup is by coordinating all our QA and bug tickets with it, and then having SmythOS agents do triage, and report back to the ticket with updated status. This is possible because clickup has a robust API. Another way we use clickup is with a SmythOS agent that writes sprint summaries for our discord community channel. It reads all the tickets and creates updates from that. A final way we use clickup is with a SmythOS agent that helps our VP of engineering stay on top of who's working on what, simply by giving it the ability to search activity and comparing it to github commits. This is benefiting us because we can find out who is most likely the best person to assign a ticket to, or who is over/under allocated - with the least amount of effort.

In 2024, we shifted our engineering team to cursor and an AI-first mentality. If you know how to do it without AI, you should use AI to do it for you. Why? Because this is the best way to make sure you understand the code and what it's doing, but you'll do it faster. Too many of our developers were stuck in that mentality. The composer feature of Cursor is really helpful. We combine it with SmythOS agent sentinel, which connects our github to clickup and knowledge base along with AI LLMs to reason about our entire project. Sentinel is trained to write perfect composer specifications for a given ticket, so that Cursor can do its magic.

We use v0 as our frontend companion to generate .tsx files, and then we use SmythOS agents to integrate those designs with our existing code & APIs. In some cases we instead use Cursor to do the integration, and SmythOS to provide the API functionality. In 2025, our goal is to not have any front-end developers anymore, and stop designing product UX in Figma all together. Instead, the product person who has both user data and product experience, is able to imagine the user interfaces, while our AI agents put everything together.

INK has been totally rebuilt from the ground up since it first launched in 2019. Everyone who's looking into generative AI for content marketing should check it out because of how robust the solution has become. Also, the price is unbeatable.