wjgilmore
Joined 15 years ago
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165
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108
Member since
Mar 17
Recent submissions
Comment · 14 hours ago
Just wanted to say I really love your project! Using Vim and TMUX more than ever these days alongside the Claude Code terminal integration, so this is a great tool to become even more proficient with Vim movements.
Comment · 3 months ago
I continue working on SecurityBot.dev, having lately made significant improvements to the broken link monitor.
Comment · 4 months ago
Super interesting I will look into it!
Comment · 4 months ago
I work with and talk to a lot of people in M&A space. Happy to answer questions and give you a tour.
Comment · 4 months ago
Hmm it resolves for me just fine? https://dependencydesk.com/. SecurityBot hasn't flagged any issues either. :-)
Comment · 4 months ago
I build and maintain a fleet of microsaas products, all revolving around problems I have personally encountered at work:
https://npsbeacon.com NPS survey and analysis tool. I built this because I needed an easy and cost effective way to manage NPS surveys and almost had a heart attack when I learned what some of the competitors are charging.
https://contributoriq.com/ Helps tremendously with the M&A process during due diligence when you need to quickly understand who are the SMEs in specific parts of code base.
https://dependencydesk.com Another M&A tool. Useful for software company sellers who are required to disclose details related to software IP ownership such as what third-party dependencies are used in their software.
https://securitybot.dev All-in-one security, uptime, and SEO monitoring tool. I love working on this, and it has been so useful helping to identify various issues in my other products. Simple Slack alerting integration.
https://iterops.com Heatmap, rage click, dead click, simple A/B testing tool. Like NPSBeacon I built IterOps because the competing solutions are charging far too much for what they offer.
https://spiesindc.com One of these projects is not like the other lol. This is that project. Cold War history / stamp collecting subscription service. I probably lose money on this and yet will never stop running it.
My personal rule is to only build side projects that I plan on using all the time. Otherwise I'll just lose interest and they will languish. So far, so good.
Comment · 6 months ago
I recently ran a 1/2 marathon and fell well short of my projected finish time. Like any self-respecting nerd, I figured it was a good opportunity to overanalyze the situation.
Comment · 6 months ago
You made me smile when I saw the reference to my pushup essay. :-) I have updated that post a few more times since it originally published and am now starting to train for my first Ironman event.
Just a little bit of exercise a day can change youe life!
Comment · 7 months ago
This week I launched IterOps https://iterops.com, a heat mapping, rage click, dead click, scroll mapping, and simple A/B testing tool. I originally built it to have a better idea of what people are doing on my other micro-saas projects like https://securitybot.dev and https://contributoriq.com. Already finding it so useful that I figured I'd just turn it into a product too.
Comment · 9 months ago
https://wjgilmore.com - My personal site. Have built and rebuilt this site many, many times over the past 20 years or so.
Comment · 10 months ago
It differs according to product. SecurityBot.dev has solid SEO because I put a lot of focused work into the landing pages. Interest in DependencyDesk has come exclusively through showing it directly to industry contacts.
The latter is partly what I was getting at regarding domain expertise because with that expertise comes an industry network. AI is great but if you’re creating solutions in search of a problem then the code doesn’t matter because nobody will need/want your product. I feel like your chances of success are much higher if you’ve personally felt the pain your product intends to solve, and that pain is built into the domain expertise people accrue over a long period of time.
Comment · 10 months ago
I’ve built and launched numerous SaaS products (which have paying customers) which were almost entirely built usibg AI agents including https://securitybot.dev and https://dependencydesk.com.
My experience so far has been if you possess both deep domain-specific experience and significant coding experience then these coding LLMs, and most notably Opus 4.5, are the greatest productivity booster in the world.
Comment · 10 months ago
I have a 3’x4’ dry erase version of this calendar format on my office wall. Bought it cheap on Amazon a few years ago. Put work travel dates, anniversaries, birthdays, vacations, etc on it. It’s nice to be able to see the “big picture” at a glance, and my kids love putting their own dates on it such as when they think Halloween decorations should be put up lol.
https://securitybot.com https://dependencydesk.com https://spiesindc.com