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Concepts
- Agent-Friendly Web
Jan Wilmake's mission to make the open internet accessible to AI agents through token-dense URL mirrors
- Depth-First DevRel
Jan Wilmake's developer relations philosophy of building real revenue-generating products on top of sponsored APIs rather than producing tutorials
- Internetless Software Development
Jan Wilmake's 2024 experiment building a fully offline development environment using a local LLM, local DNS, and a Vercel-compatible request resolver
- Moloch / Complexity as Strategy
Jan Wilmake's theory that corporate complexity is sometimes a deliberate competitive strategy, connected to Scott Alexander's coordination failure concept
- Outcomputed
Jan Wilmake's concept describing the inevitable point at which AI surpasses a person's professional utility, and his proposed response — becoming a compute allocator
- Reciprocal Networks of One-Person Companies
Jan Wilmake's alternative to co-founder startups — independent solo companies linked by reciprocal contracts rather than personal trust
- Scalable Knowledge Work
Jan Wilmake's thesis that LLMs enable copying and executing knowledge work at global scale via API-driven pipelines
- Spec-First Development
Jan Wilmake's practice of writing SPEC.md files before building — treating written specifications as the primary engineering artifact
- The World Is Information
Jan Wilmake's philosophical framework connecting information streams, AI agents, and continuous world improvement
Organizations
- Cloudflare
American internet infrastructure company; the primary deployment platform for Jan Wilmake's 2024–2026 projects
- Code From Anywhere
Distributed software development agency founded by Jan Wilmake in 2021
- Iterate
Developer productivity startup founded by Jonas Templestein; Jan Wilmake did a one-week paid trial in May 2025
- Minion.ai
San Francisco browser automation and agentic AI startup where Jan Wilmake worked briefly in early 2024
- Parallel AI
AI infrastructure company where Jan Wilmake worked as a DevRel contractor in 2025
- Product Hunt
Daily product launch leaderboard founded by Ryan Hoover; acquired by AngelList in 2016; a planned launch venue for Jan Wilmake
- Slimmer AI
Groningen-based AI startup studio where Jan Wilmake worked as a contractor in 2024
- Sprent
Swedish housing and recruitment platform; client of Jan Wilmake from late 2023 to early 2024
People
- Artem Murzin
Teenage developer; founder of Conare AI IDE and vibe-rules context management tool
- Ben Allfree
Developer and collaborator in Jan's X network; creator of PocketBase framework and Cloudflare infrastructure tools
- Ben Tossell
British entrepreneur; founder of Ben's Bites AI newsletter, MakerPad (acq. Zapier), and Ben's Bites Fund
- Dmitry Alexenko
Head of Enterprise Engineering at Cloudflare; formerly Head of Billing Engineering at Stripe
- EastlondonDev
London-based developer; creator of vibe-tools and MCP infrastructure
- Enes Akar
Co-founder and CEO of Upstash; serverless Redis, Kafka, and vector database platform
- Guillaume Lebedel
Co-founder and CTO of StackOne; universal integration layer for SaaS and AI agents
- Jan Wilmake
Dutch software developer, entrepreneur, and AI researcher based in Groningen
- Jonas Templestein
CEO of Iterate; co-founder and former CTO of Monzo Bank
- Kristian Freeman
Engineering Manager, Developer Relations at Cloudflare; based in Austin, TX
- Matt Carey
Cloudflare engineer focused on Durable Objects and AI agents; recurring collaborator with Jan Wilmake on MCP infrastructure
- Maurice Kleine
Dutch indie hacker and founder of Mockly; recurring collaborator in Jan's Amsterdam network
Projects
- ActionSchema
AI-powered spreadsheet and data-pipeline tool developed by Jan Wilmake
- Browser MCP
Jan Wilmake's scalable cloud browser MCP microsaas using Playwright, charging $0.01 per browser action
- Chat AI
WhatsApp-based ChatGPT bot built by Jan Wilmake in 2023
- Cloudflare Sandbox
Jan Wilmake's Cloudflare-based pre-authenticated terminal tool exposing stripe, git, gh, and wrangler as AI tools
- Communify
React Native community app for co-working spaces, developed 2017–2019
- ContextArea
Web-based context engineering and MCP client tool by Jan Wilmake; launched February 2026
- forgithub
Family of GitHub-focused tools by Jan Wilmake including Dashboard for GitHub and Context for GitHub
- getpromind
Personal digital memory tool by Jan Wilmake storing X bookmarks, browser history, and GitHub activity
- Grok Thyself
X data sync tool by Jan Wilmake that continuously backs up tweets, bookmarks, and likes to a private GitHub repo
- installthismcp
Jan Wilmake's MCP installation helper that generates one-click install instructions for any MCP server across all major clients
- LLMTEXT
Open-source toolkit by Jan Wilmake for creating, validating, and using llms.txt files; launched under Parallel AI in October 2025
- Markdown Browser
Browser extension and web tool by Jan Wilmake showing any URL's markdown representation alongside its llms.txt sidebar
- MasterCrimeZ
Text-based multiplayer browser game built by Jan Wilmake at age 12 that reached 500+ daily active users
- openapisearch.com
API discovery and search tool by Jan Wilmake that went viral in March 2025
- OpenPolsia
Open-source AI business-manager by Jan Wilmake, modelled on the @polsia X account's autonomous multi-business agent
- Screenless
AI phone call transcription and GPT integration platform by Jan Wilmake
- Self-Driving Repos
Jan Wilmake's platform for running autonomous AI agents on GitHub repositories with strict budget control
- SimplerAuth
Auth library collection for Cloudflare Workers by Jan Wilmake; minimal OAuth implementations
- socialdatapod
Jan Wilmake's personal X/Twitter history MCP and knowledge base tool for full historical context
- sponsorflare
Cloudflare Workers-based sponsorship and usage-billing layer built by Jan Wilmake
- uithub
GitHub repository viewer and AI context tool developed by Jan Wilmake