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New comment by wjgilmore in "Don't feel like exercising? Maybe it's the wrong time of day for you"

wjgilmore — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 08:49:25 +0000

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!

New comment by wjgilmore in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

wjgilmore — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 20:59:29 +0000

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.

Goodbye Software Guilds, Hello Software Factories

wjgilmore — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 18:39:39 +0000

Article URL: https://wjgilmore.com/articles/goodbye-software-guilds-hello-software-factories

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47091945

Points: 1

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New comment by wjgilmore in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

wjgilmore — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 04:08:49 +0000

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

New comment by wjgilmore in "Ask HN: Any example of successful vibe-coded product?"

wjgilmore — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 16:31:30 +0000

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.

New comment by wjgilmore in "Ask HN: Any example of successful vibe-coded product?"

wjgilmore — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 18:11:41 +0000

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.

New comment by wjgilmore in "Calendar"

wjgilmore — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 18:27:34 +0000

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.

New comment by wjgilmore in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

wjgilmore — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 21:11:26 +0000

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).

New comment by wjgilmore in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)"

wjgilmore — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 22:51:09 +0000

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.

New comment by wjgilmore in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)"

wjgilmore — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 14:31:22 +0000

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.

New comment by wjgilmore in "10k pushups and other silly exercise quests that changed my life"

wjgilmore — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 14:20:40 +0000

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!

New comment by wjgilmore in "10k pushups and other silly exercise quests that changed my life"

wjgilmore — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 14:16:44 +0000

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. :-)

New comment by wjgilmore in "10k pushups and other silly exercise quests that changed my life"

wjgilmore — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 03:59:09 +0000

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.

New comment by wjgilmore in "10k pushups and other silly exercise quests that changed my life"

wjgilmore — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 03:36:04 +0000

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).

New comment by wjgilmore in "10k pushups and other silly exercise quests that changed my life"

wjgilmore — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 03:16:04 +0000

LETS GOOOOOOOO

New comment by wjgilmore in "10k pushups and other silly exercise quests that changed my life"

wjgilmore — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 02:39:58 +0000

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.

New comment by wjgilmore in "10k pushups and other silly exercise quests that changed my life"

wjgilmore — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 02:13:39 +0000

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...

New comment by wjgilmore in "10k pushups and other silly exercise quests that changed my life"

wjgilmore — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 01:53:44 +0000

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.

New comment by wjgilmore in "10k pushups and other silly exercise quests that changed my life"

wjgilmore — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 01:40:14 +0000

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.

New comment by wjgilmore in "10k pushups and other silly exercise quests that changed my life"

wjgilmore — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 01:38:58 +0000

Thank you!