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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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:
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!
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. :-)
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).
https://securitybot.com https://6dollarcrm.com https://dependencydesk.com https://spiesindc.com