Simon Høiberg
Software engineer and founder running SaaS products in the AI and No Code space.
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Editing software7
- Remotion
cited in 5 videos

“I'll have several agents coding at the same time, other jobs running in the background, and then something heavy like Blender or Remotion starts rendering.”
- DaVinci Resolve
cited in 3 videosspeaks highly of it

“I used to do all of my videos using Adobe Premiere and Adobe After Effects, but I recently changed to Da Vinci Resolve. And honestly, I'm blown away by the quality of this software that I always saw as a bit of an underdog.”
- Blender
cited in 3 videosfirst cited September 2026

“I'll have several agents coding at the same time, other jobs running in the background, and then something heavy like Blender or Remotion starts rendering.”
- Adobe Premiere Pro
cited in 2 videoshas reservations

“I used to do all of my videos using Adobe Premiere and Adobe After Effects, but I recently changed to Da Vinci Resolve.”
- DaVinci Resolve Studio2 videos
- Adobe After Effects1 video
- Photocraft1 video
Coding software28
- Kubernetes
cited in 7 videos

“All my code now runs in Docker containers and is managed by Kubernetes.”
- GitHub
cited in 5 videosmixed views on it

“Just a year ago, GitHub Copilot felt almost unlimited. So I started using it for more and more of my work. Then the allowance became easier to exhaust.”
- Lovable
cited in 4 videosspeaks highly of it

“We now do all of this using one single tool. That tool is called lovable. By simply using natural language and by describing the vibe we want, we're now planning drafting designing and prototyping all using one single tool.”
- Electron
cited in 3 videosfirst cited September 2026mixed views on it

“So, I built a desktop app with Electron and an Android app with React Native because I wanted the system available everywhere.”
- Forgejo3 videos
- Puppeteer2 videos
- K3s2 videos
- Redis2 videos
- Postgres2 videos
- CloudNativePG2 videos
- Cursor2 videos
- React Native2 videos
- Helm2 videos
- GitHub Copilot1 video
- Appsmith1 video
- For Ye Ho (self-hosted Git platform)1 video
- Keycloak1 video
- BullMQ1 video
- PGVector1 video
- VS Code1 video
- DynamoDB1 video
- shadcn/ui1 video
- Vite1 video
- React1 video
- PostgreSQL1 video
- AWS Cognito1 video
- Next.js1 video
- OpenAI ChatKit1 video
AI software26
- OpenClaw
cited in 11 videospositive about it

“Over the past few months, I've built my own company agent OS on top of OpenClaw. I call it Obslayer. OpenClaw runs the agents and ops layer, gives them access to our tasks, documents, company context, and workflows.”
- Replicate
cited in 2 videosspeaks highly of it

“We need a place to host and run our AI models. We'll use replicate for this part.”
- n8n
cited in 2 videosfirst cited July 2026positive about it

“We use tools like NocoDB for internal data and n8n for the automation that connect the company. All are self-hosted.”
- Open Cloud
first cited July 2026positive about it

“A setup I really like is pairing n8n with Open Cloud. The agent builds a workflow, then we lock it, add the API credentials inside n8n, and let the agent call it through a webhook.”
View source at 1:40from July 2026
- OpenRouter1 video
- Vesta AI1 video
- OpenAI1 video
- GPT-51 video
- Crane 3.81 video
- Opus1 video
- Flux trainer (fast-flux trainer model)1 video
- WhisperFlow1 video
- GLM1 video
- GPT1 video
- Kimi K21 video
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash1 video
- OpenAI Agent Builder (AgentKit)1 video
- vLLM1 video
- Ollama1 video
- Qwen 3.81 video
- GLM-5.11 video
- ChatGPT1 video
- OpenAI subscriptions (Codex)1 video
- GPT-61 video
- HeyGen1 video
- OpenAI GPT-61 video
Productivity software10
- Telegram
cited in 11 videosspeaks highly of it

“Today, the whole team is in Telegram. And by the whole team, I mean the AI agents, too.”
- NocoDB
cited in 3 videosfirst cited July 2026speaks highly of it

“Think of NocoDB as Airtable running on your own infrastructure. For us, it handles internal data management. We use it for leads, customer research, content production, and recurring processes that have outgrown a normal spreadsheet.”
- Gmail
cited in 2 videosfirst cited September 2026positive about it

“We run the workflow directly through Gmail. You connect the account through the Gmail API, give the agent the offer and the type of company you want to reach, and define the campaign rules.”
- Proton
first cited October 2026

“01:05 Google Workspace → Proton”
View sourcefrom October 2026
- Brick1 video
- Notion1 video
- Document Hero1 video
- Ubuntu1 video
- Proton (Mail, Calendar, Drive)1 video
- Twenty1 video
Creator tools5
- FeedHive
cited in 8 videosspeaks highly of it
“So, I run a lot of content through Feed Hive, which is another tool my team and I run. It's a social media automation tool, and it's where we create posts, plan the calendar, schedule content, review drafts, and reply to comments.”
- Listmonk
first cited July 2026speaks highly of it

“Listmonk gives us mailing list segmentation campaigns templates analytics, and transactional email through an API. It's fast, lightweight, and built around Postgres, so we can own the subscriber data.”
View source at 7:29from July 2026 - DataForSEO
first cited October 2026
“On our team, we were already data for SEO for mostly everything, so installing Open SEO on top was easy.”
View source at 4:28from October 2026 - OpenSEO
first cited October 2026speaks highly of it

“On our team, we were already data for SEO for mostly everything, so installing Open SEO on top was easy. And I have to say, it's really growing on me.”
View source at 4:28from October 2026
- Figma1 video
Platforms
Hosting platforms11
- Hetzner
cited in 6 videosspeaks highly of it

“Instead, I'm now self-hosting everything on bare-metal servers I rent with Hetzner, and I'm still serving more than 50,000 users who use my SaaS tools.”
- AWS
cited in 3 videosmixed views on it
“Until recently, all of my SaaS products were running entirely on AWS.”
- Vast AI
cited in 2 videospositive about it

“Before buying anything, I rented the machines through Vast AI. So, Vast is a marketplace where other operators rent out GPU servers by the hour.”
- Hetzner bare metal servers
cited in 2 videosfirst cited October 2026speaks highly of it

“We rent bare metal servers at Hetzner, and everything on top of them is carefully tailored to our products, the apps, the databases, the background jobs, and the monitoring.”
- AWS CloudFront1 video
- Coolify1 video
- Amazon CloudFront1 video
- AWS (DynamoDB, Lambda, Fargate)1 video
- Hetzner dedicated servers1 video
- hscale VPS hosting1 video
- YouTube1 video
Ecommerce platforms1
- Stripe
cited in 6 videosmixed views on it

“Back in 2023, while my first two SAS products were growing pretty rapidly, I had a huge issue with disputes on Stripe. In fact, at some point, my dispute rate was getting dangerously high, even though I tried configuring Stripe's radar rules in a bunch of different ways.”
Desk
Computers5
- Raspberry Pi
$200.00mixed views on it

“I actually ran one of my products for two whole days on these three Raspberry Pis right here in my office.”
View source at 7:03from November 2025 - RTX 3090 (four, 96GB aggregate VRAM)
first cited August 2026positive about it
“The setup that finally gave me enough room was four RTX 3090s with 24 GB each, 96 GB of aggregate VRAM.”
View source at 7:14from August 2026 “We limit to A100 series. We'll pick a 4x A100 with GB VRAM.”
View source at 11:26from June 2026- RTX 6000
first cited October 2026

“We ran Quinn 3.8 ate locally on a single RDX 6000 hooked up to the Vinci Resolve and it edited one of our videos.”
View source at 6:59from October 2026
- RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell1 video
Storage2
- Amazon S3
mixed views on it

“So, first of all, storage. I use S3 for this and it was rather difficult to find a good replacement.”
View source at 10:02from November 2025 - MinIO
mixed views on it

“So, my approach was to order a 15 TB hard drive with Hetzner and have them attach that to the main dedicated server and then use that with MinIO.”
View source at 10:46from November 2025
Everything else
Other8
- WireGuard
cited in 3 videosfirst cited June 2026speaks highly of it

“The better version is WireGuard, and this is what I'm using.”
- Grafana
cited in 3 videosspeaks highly of it
“Traditionally, Grafana is a system monitoring tool similar to Datadog, but we use it for something more interesting. Full product analytics.”
- Omarchy
cited in 2 videosfirst cited September 2026

“02:09 Windows → Omarchy”
- Docker
cited in 2 videos

“All my code now runs in Docker containers and is managed by Kubernetes.”
- Prometheus2 videos
- Upwork1 video
- Google Ads (Search and PMax)1 video
- Meta Ads Manager1 video
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