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title: Ben Allfree
description: Developer and collaborator in Jan's X network; creator of PocketBase framework and Cloudflare infrastructure tools
category: People
---

# Ben Allfree

**Ben Allfree** ([@benallfree](https://x.com/benallfree)) is a developer and entrepreneur who appears regularly in [[Jan_Wilmake]]'s X network. He is one of Jan's closest X mutuals.

## Background

Ben is a prolific open-source developer with a background that includes a startup exit and work in conservation. He is active in the Cloudflare Workers and Durable Objects community.

## Connection to Jan

Jan and Ben interact on X around technical topics including MCP, agent infrastructure, Cloudflare Workers, and indie builder culture.

In October 2025, Jan used AI research to surface surprising information about his top X contacts — including discovering Ben's significant professional background that hadn't come up directly in their X interactions. A specific collaboration area identified: co-authoring a proposal for Cloudflare to implement pluggable filesystem architecture based on Ben's work on Durable Objects filesystem standards.

Jan credits X as a platform that gave him access to a professional network he would not have built otherwise, and lists Ben among the people central to that network.

## See Also

- [[Jan_Wilmake]]
- [[Sam_Goodwin]]