One day our product broke on production. Like that, users start seeing a blank page and were not able to see the application.
We didn't know what was wrong at first, the tests were all green and the pipeline deployed the new release as any other day. And then we realized that we had deployed an empty release, all our checks failed.
Then we decided that smoke tests will help us, but we realized there was no tool to work with them.
Before Smokex, in order to achieve smoke testing you needed to, for each of your projects, set up the environment, and create the tests on your own.