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title: Jan Wilmake
description: Dutch software developer, entrepreneur, and AI researcher based in Groningen
category: People
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# Jan Wilmake

![Jan Wilmake](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/97664551?v=4)

**Jan Wilmake** (born 20 August 1993, Netherlands) is a Dutch software developer, entrepreneur, and AI researcher primarily known for building developer tools and AI-powered products. He is based in Groningen, Netherlands, and operates under the company name [[Code_From_Anywhere]].

## Early Life and Education

Wilmake grew up near Groningen, Netherlands. He demonstrated an early aptitude for programming: at the age of twelve (2006), he launched [[MasterCrimeZ]], a text-based multiplayer browser game built in PHP that reached over 500 daily active users and generated revenues exceeding €2,000 per month at its peak.

He holds a Bachelor of Science in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Groningen (RUG), completed approximately 2012–2016.

## Career

After graduating, Wilmake pursued a [[Digital_Nomad_Lifestyle|digital nomad]] path — combining software development with extensive international travel across Southeast Asia, South Asia, South America, and Europe. He founded [[Code_From_Anywhere]] in April 2021, a distributed software agency that also served as the umbrella for his independent product work.

Key career milestones include:

| Period | Role / Project |
|--------|---------------|
| 2006–present | [[MasterCrimeZ]] — text-based browser game |
| 2017–2019 | [[Communify]] — co-working community app |
| 2021 | Founded [[Code_From_Anywhere]] |
| 2023 | [[Chat_AI]] — WhatsApp ChatGPT bot (4,000+ users) |
| 2023–2024 | [[ActionSchema]] — AI-powered data pipeline platform |
| 2024 | [[Screenless]] — phone-call AI transcription tool |
| 2024 | Contractor at [[Slimmer_AI]] (ClaimWise project) |
| 2024–present | [[uithub]] — GitHub repo viewer for AI agents |
| 2025 | DevRel contractor at [[Parallel_AI]] |
| 2025–present | [[openapisearch]] — API discovery tool |
| 2025–present | [[sponsorflare]], [[SimplerAuth]], [[ContextArea]] |
| 2026 | [[Grok_Thyself]], [[Self-Driving_Repos]], [[Markdown_Browser]] |

## Philosophy

Wilmake's work centres on three interconnected ideas:

- **[[Agent_Friendly_Web]]** — building URL-accessible, token-efficient mirrors of major internet platforms to make the web usable by AI agents
- **[[Scalable_Knowledge_Work]]** — the thesis that LLMs make knowledge work replicable at global scale via API-driven pipelines
- **[[Spec_First_Development]]** — writing `SPEC.md` files before writing code, treating specifications as the primary engineering artefact

He is a prolific open-source contributor and builds primarily on [[Cloudflare]] Workers.

## Online Presence

- GitHub: [github.com/janwilmake](https://github.com/janwilmake)
- X / Twitter: [@janwilmake](https://x.com/janwilmake)

## See Also

- [[Code_From_Anywhere]]
- [[uithub]]
- [[ActionSchema]]
- [[Agent_Friendly_Web]]
- [[Self-Driving_Repos]]