Mischa Sigtermans — Building Products

Mischa Sigtermans

I've been Shipping products and building ventures for over a decade. First exit at 25, second at 30. Now Partner & CPO at Ryde Ventures, an AI venture studio in Amsterdam. Currently shipping Stagent and Onoma. Based in Hong Kong. I write about what I learn along the way.

Recent thoughts

Taylor Otwell is immortal and costs $200/month

01/04

Launching Onoma alpha: building AI memory that actually works

12/24

Why I built Laravel TOON (and how it saves 60% on LLM tokens)

12/07

Joining Ryde Ventures as partner and chief product officer

12/01

Stagent and Artwin join forces for the future of bookings

All thoughts →

Ventures

Memory layer for AI. Context across models, without exposing your identity.

Booking and management platform for agencies and artists.

Ryde Ventures ↗

AI venture studio building and investing in early-stage AI products.

True Identity ↗

Harder styles booking agency and music label.

exited

Pixelstart

Web design, ecommerce and development for DJs, artists and YouTubers.

exited

Packages

laravel-toon ↗

TOON encoding for Laravel. Encode data for AI/LLMs with 40-60% fewer tokens than JSON.

taylor-says ↗

Claude Code plugin channeling Taylor Otwell's Laravel philosophy.

laravel-sift ↗

Lightweight email domain extraction for Laravel. Filter public providers to identify business emails.

laravel-ogkit ↗

Dynamic OG images for Laravel. Design social previews with your own HTML and CSS.

Books

The 5-Project Rule

Stop starting. Start finishing. The system I use to go from 14 scattered projects to 5 that get done.