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Career

  • Career Plan 2026
    Jan Wilmake's active job search; Moyai and Blixt intro calls completed; LinkedIn search resumed May 28; HACKADAM meetup

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

Events

  • Cloudflare Agents Week
    Cloudflare's April 2026 launch event introducing Browser Run, Mesh, Email for Agents, AI Platform, and more agent infrastructure
  • Cloudflare Pursuit 2024–2025
    Jan Wilmake's 18-month effort to secure a formal partnership or role with Cloudflare, from first contact to Launchpad rejection
  • HACKADAM
    Dutch indie-maker meetup in Amsterdam; Jan Wilmake was personally tagged for the May 28, 2026 edition by @AbnerHout
  • Hacker Residency
    Developer co-working retreat in Da Nang, Vietnam; November 2025, organized by @transitive_bs and @phuctm97
  • uithub Viral Events
    Three organic viral traffic spikes for uithub between October 2024 and March 2025, each exceeding 100,000 pageviews

Lifestyle

Organizations

  • Biscuit
    All-in-one business platform by Ives van Hoorne (CodeSandbox) that Jan Wilmake explored in May 2026; relationship dead after 13 days without follow-up
  • Blixt
    AI-driven automated integration testing startup founded by Floris Weers; Jan Wilmake completed an intro call on May 20, 2026; follow-up 10 days overdue as of May 30 — dead
  • Claude Code Routines
    Anthropic's cloud-scheduled agent system launched April 2026; direct competitor to Jan Wilmake's Self-Driving Repos
  • Cloudflare
    American internet infrastructure company; the single most referenced organisation in Jan Wilmake's 2024–2026 notes
  • Cloudflare Artifacts
    Cloudflare's git-native versioned storage for AI agents, launched April 2026; potential infrastructure for Self-Driving Repos
  • Code From Anywhere
    Distributed software development agency founded by Jan Wilmake in 2021
  • Foreside
    Tech company where Jan Wilmake has an intro call scheduled for June 2, 2026 at 15:00 CEST; discovered via LinkedIn job browsing on May 28–29
  • GitHub Agentic Workflows
    GitHub's agent orchestration product (gh-aw) launched April 2026; primary competitor to Jan Wilmake's Self-Driving Repos
  • 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
  • Moyai
    AI agent reliability company; Jan Wilmake completed an intro call with co-founder Robert Hommes and Wijnand Karsens on May 19, 2026
  • New Nexus
    Groningen-based IT consultancy, target employer in Jan Wilmake's 2026 job search
  • 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
  • ProfitPath
    Amazon FBA and online arbitrage SaaS that Jan Wilmake researched as a potential employer in April 2026
  • 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
  • Topliner
    AI-powered executive search platform; connection point for Jan Wilmake's networking call with Arsen Ibragimov in May 2026

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; one of Jan's top-five recurring mutual contacts
  • 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 and former CTO; creator of vibe-tools and MCP infrastructure; met Jan at the Hacker Residency
  • 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
  • Ives van Hoorne
    Dutch tech founder who created CodeSandbox and Biscuit; met with Jan Wilmake in May 2026
  • 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
  • Paraga Agarwal
    Former Twitter/X CEO; founder and CEO of Parallel AI, Jan Wilmake's employer in 2025
  • Ricky Robinett
    VP Developer Relations and Community at Cloudflare; based in Brooklyn, NY
  • Ryan Hoover
    Founder of Product Hunt and general partner at Weekend Fund; early-stage investor
  • Sam Goodwin
    Creator of Alchemy; TypeScript-native Infrastructure-as-Code framework for Cloudflare and AWS
  • Soham Ganatra
    Co-founder and CEO of Composio; AI agent tooling platform backed by Lightspeed
  • Sunil Pai
    Indian-British software engineer at Cloudflare; creator of the Cloudflare Agents SDK and PartyKit
  • Thomas Slabbers
    Co-founder of Socialdatabase; X/Twitter data analytics and advertising platform
  • Travis Fischer
    Developer and organiser of the Hacker Residency in Da Nang, Vietnam; community builder in the indie hacker space

Places

  • Groningen
    Dutch city and primary base of Jan Wilmake
  • San Francisco Bay Area
    Jan Wilmake's target relocation destination from 2025; motivates networking and career decisions in the 2025–2026 period
  • Vries
    Village in Drenthe, Netherlands; Jan Wilmake's childhood home and the place where MasterCrimeZ began at age 12

Projects

  • ActionSchema
    AI-powered spreadsheet and data-pipeline tool developed by Jan Wilmake
  • Browser History Extension
    Chrome extension by Jan Wilmake that auto-syncs browsing history to a private GitHub repo as daily Markdown files
  • 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 backs up tweets, bookmarks, and likes to a GitHub repo; 48 sign-ups, 3 paying users; navigating X API pricing change
  • Hackbot
    Passive security recon tool for any domain — SSL, headers, DNS, subdomains, breach exposure — built and deployed by Jan Wilmake on April 21, 2026
  • 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 tool by Jan Wilmake for navigating the agent-readable second web via markdown and llms.txt
  • MasterCrimeZ
    Text-based multiplayer browser game developed by Jan Wilmake from 2006
  • 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
  • ProductSim
    AI-powered E2E browser testing tool that runs against PR preview deploys; launched April 15, 2026; competing with YC-backed Arga Labs
  • 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
  • YumScan
    Restaurant menu visual browser app built by Jan Wilmake on May 31, 2026; registered as getyumscan.com on Cloudflare