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.

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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.

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.

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).

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

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

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