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wjgilmoreon Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)

I continue working on SecurityBot.dev, having lately made significant improvements to the broken link monitor.

https://securitybot.dev

wjgilmoreon Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)

Super interesting I will look into it!

wjgilmoreon Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)

I work with and talk to a lot of people in M&A space. Happy to answer questions and give you a tour.

wjgilmoreon Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)

Hmm it resolves for me just fine? https://dependencydesk.com/. SecurityBot hasn't flagged any issues either. :-)

wjgilmoreon Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)

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.

wjgilmoreon Overanalyzing My Poor 1/2 Marathon Performance

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.

wjgilmoreon Don't feel like exercising? Maybe it's the wrong time of day for you

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!

wjgilmoreon Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)

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.

wjgilmoreon Ask HN: Share your personal website

https://wjgilmore.com - My personal site. Have built and rebuilt this site many, many times over the past 20 years or so.

wjgilmoreon Ask HN: Any example of successful vibe-coded product?

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.

wjgilmoreon Ask HN: Any example of successful vibe-coded product?

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.

wjgilmoreon Calendar

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.

wjgilmoreon Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)

https://securitybot.dev/

SecurityBot.dev is an all-in-one uptime, performance, security, and SEO monitoring tool. I launched it a few months ago and have been iterating on it ever since. Later this week SecurityBot.dev will log its 1 millionth uptime check which is pretty cool to see.

It includes the usual uptime monitoring service that you see everywhere else, but also features such as a PageSpeed Insights monitor (https://securitybot.dev/pagespeed-insights) and a broken link checker (https://securitybot.dev/broken-link-checker). I continue adding new monitor types as I personally need them (and also based on use feedback).

wjgilmoreon Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

I am working on SecurityBot https://securitybot.dev a service that combines uptime, performance, SEO, and security monitoring. Among other things it inckudes PageSpeed Insights analysis, a broken link auditor (401, 404, 500, etc), and historical ping/uptime results.

I recently shipped an MCP server thst can delivered broken link results to Cursor so they can rapidly be resolved.

wjgilmoreon Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)

This weekend I added a broken link monitor to https://SecurityBot.dev. It will scan a site and flag 400, 403, 404, and 500 HTTP status codes. Screenshot:

https://imgur.com/a/9kWMXVe

Next up: an MCP server so devs can pull data from SecurityBot's various monitors directly into their IDE.

wjgilmoreon 10k pushups and other silly exercise quests that changed my life

I've learned it is very important to think about achieving this output in small batches (sets) as you mention. For instance on Saturday I did 527 pushups. I did a set of 30 in the morning, and then did 400 on the soccer field with my friend Charlie (the neighbor mentioned in post). But we did these in 16 sets of 25, every five minutes over the course of our kids' soccer game. Then I came home and figured since I was so close to my PR (525), I might as well grind out another hundred in order to eclipse that number. I wound up at 527, doing the last 97 in batches of 15, 10, and even 5. I actually think I did the last two in sets of 1 lol because I was so wiped out!

wjgilmoreon 10k pushups and other silly exercise quests that changed my life

Sorry for slow response. At this point I'm doing much more than push movements. The pushups remain (I did 527 on Saturday for instance) however I'm also doing bootcamp-style track workouts, occasionally lifting weights, running hard, and eating very clean. And yes I am beyond happy with current fitness level and shape however new goals will be set for 2026. :-)

wjgilmoreon 10k pushups and other silly exercise quests that changed my life

Given a choice between eating fast food and a home cooked meal I’ll take the latter every time. But to each their own, I’m not here to judge.

wjgilmoreon 10k pushups and other silly exercise quests that changed my life

Maybe try doing curls with 3/5 pound weights instead! Or standing shoulder presses. Do that for a few weeks and then return to pushups. At that point you'll be strong enough to do 1. And then as you say, 1 becomes 2, 2 becomes 5, and 5 becomes 100. I couldn't do more than 15 in a row on January 1. On August 16 I did 525 in 2.5 hours (I know this because it is in my Google Sheet).

wjgilmoreon 10k pushups and other silly exercise quests that changed my life

LETS GOOOOOOOO

wjgilmoreon 10k pushups and other silly exercise quests that changed my life

100% yes! Everything you describe is spot on with my experience. Took me a long, long time to realize in order to get into ridiculous shape I need 1) the floor 2) running shoes.

wjgilmoreon 10k pushups and other silly exercise quests that changed my life

Don’t feel bad the other day a friend sent me a story about a guy who recently set some record by completing 1,721 pushups in one hour. Needless to say I dropped down and did 20 more.

https://brobible.com/sports/article/oregon-army-national-gua...

wjgilmoreon 10k pushups and other silly exercise quests that changed my life

I have no idea why this worked other than I really took to the process of doing the exercises and then logging it all. Once I had a little bit of data I started writing Google Sheets formulas, creating charts, etc and it suddenly became fun. Then when I did get into shape it became a game of beating my previous 5K and 10K times. Lately every few days I go outside and run hard to beat my last time (currently PR is 28:10). I would have smashed this time a few days ago but about 2 miles in I suddenly had a terrible calf cramp that took a few days to get past. Not going to tempt fate again until after completing the Columbus 1/2 marathon on October 19.

wjgilmoreon 10k pushups and other silly exercise quests that changed my life

I overthought this so, so many times. This time around I was just like see floor, do pushups, log it lol. One thing led to another and now I'm suddenly feeling like Hulk Hogan.

wjgilmoreon 10k pushups and other silly exercise quests that changed my life

Thank you!

wjgilmoreon 10k pushups and other silly exercise quests that changed my life

Definitely did not start as a joke, but I do wish I had taken for instance various body measurements. I can confirm my chest and shoulders are huge compared to the start of 2025.

And yes agreed about the importance of continuing through the multiple lows! Sometimes the motivation just wasn't there but I kept plugging along and then suddenly everything came together.

wjgilmoreon 10k pushups and other silly exercise quests that changed my life

I hurt everywhere before starting this crazy experiment. Seriously. Now all of the pain is gone and I feel like Superman.

wjgilmoreon 10k pushups and other silly exercise quests that changed my life

Thought my fellow programmers/nerds might find this blog post useful and interesting, and hopefully motivational. There isn't much else I'd rather do than screw around with my computers, write code, etc, which has naturally made getting into shape kind of difficult. This year I resolved to do something about it and so embarked on a series of ridiculous exercise quests and am now in the best shape of my adult life.

wjgilmoreon Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)

Been having a lot of fun building SecurityBot (https://securitybot.dev/), a free security and uptime monitoring service. It keeps tab on your HTTP security headers including CSP, robots.txt, security.txt. open/closed ports, ping times, uptime, and more.

wjgilmoreon Model Context Protocol, Product Demos, and the New App Store

Yes I agree, this is a new way to weave together software in ways that REST APIs previously made possible but MCP takes to an entirely new level thanks to LLM integration.