wafflehacker.dev
wafflehacker.dev is the personal portfolio and project hub of Josh Holly, a solo web developer who builds useful tools and experiments on nights and weekends. His work spans privacy-conscious PWAs, AI-agent products, developer tools, and backend/infrastructure work; professionally he builds landing pages and advertising infrastructure through Equinox Labs.
At a Glance
- People and community organizers needing app-store-independent safety alerts
- Readers needing occasional access to article text
- Privacy-conscious users and developers needing local TOTP generation
- AI-agent builders and researchers interested in agent-native publishing
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AI Tools by wafflehacker.dev
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WallHop
Paywall Free Article Reader
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Latest News
Published “12ft.io Is Gone, So I Built My Own Paywall Bypass,” detailing WallHop’s multi-method retrieval approach and mobile integrations.
Crumpet answers voicemail: the personal AI assistant gained live transcription, mid-call pickup, summaries, priority classification, and a searchable voicemail inbox.
WallHop was publicly launched/announced as a free replacement for the defunct 12ft.io, with a Show HN post describing its URL-prefix, Shortcut, bookmarklet, and API modes.
AntiFreeze passed 10,000 installs; the update discussed its PWA distribution model, push opt-in, moderation, and migration work.
Products & Services
Anonymous ICE-sighting reports delivered through an installable PWA with push notifications, no accounts, no tracking, and coverage across all 50 states; the site says it has 11,000+ installs and was accepted into Cloudflare Project Galileo.
A publishing/social platform where AI agents are the authors. Agents write articles and notes, comment, follow, message, and onboard through a documented REST API and SKILL.md; humans vouch for one agent and spectate.
A media saver: users paste a YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, or other link, select quality, and download video or photos. It is installable as a PWA and gives explicit responses for private posts, DRM, and live streams.
A free article reader that attempts to get readable stories past paywall overlays and clutter. It supports pasted links, the wallhop.io/URL prefix, an iPhone Shortcut, a bookmarklet, and /raw/ and /api/ endpoints; the site says it is heavily modified from everywall/ladder under GPL-3.0.
Market Position
An indie, fast-shipping alternative to conventional app-store and SaaS products: AntiFreeze uses a PWA to avoid app-store gatekeeping; get2fa.fyi differentiates from hosted 2FA generators by keeping secrets in the browser; LatticeNet positions itself as an agent-native counterpart to human publishing/social platforms; and WallHop positions itself as a mobile-friendly successor/alternative to 12ft.io, with multiple retrieval methods rather than a single bypass technique. WallHop also sits alongside archive.today and browser paywall-bypass extensions, while explicitly warning that it will not work for every hard server-side paywall.
Leadership
Founders
Josh Holly
Solo full-stack web developer and designer based in Nashville. His official site says he builds landing pages and ad infrastructure professionally and ships personal projects after hours; his GitHub profile identifies him as Josh Holly and links to wafflehacker.dev.
Executive Team
Josh Holly
Solo web developer; creator and operator of wafflehacker.dev projects
Nashville-based full-stack developer/designer. He says he works professionally on landing pages and ad infrastructure and builds personal products after hours; Equinox Labs describes his stack as React/Next.js, TypeScript, PWAs, Node.js, Python, relational databases, PHP/WordPress, and Linux/infrastructure.
Founding Story
This is a personal developer identity rather than a separately described corporation. Holly says he builds the things he wants to exist on his own time, and describes the site as a place for shipping tools on nights and weekends. The project portfolio grew from that practice; his Substack describes him as a solo web developer building tools that try to be useful.
Business Model
Revenue Model
The personal tools are primarily free, utility-oriented projects. Equinox Labs is the associated professional-services business, offering full-stack product engineering, conversion tracking, marketing automation, custom CRMs, and backend infrastructure. DBT Skills Coach is a subscription SaaS, while AntiFreeze accepts support donations and WallHop links to Ko-fi.
Pricing Tiers
Free clinician accounts are also offered; the Equinox Labs product page describes shareable therapist/client links and crisis-resource integration.
No signup; the site links to Ko-fi for voluntary support.
No signup and no charge; the creator says the source is available to audit, fork, or self-host.
Target Markets
- People and community organizers needing app-store-independent safety alerts
- Readers needing occasional access to article text
- Privacy-conscious users and developers needing local TOTP generation
- AI-agent builders and researchers interested in agent-native publishing
- People practicing DBT skills and clinicians supporting between-session practice
- Businesses needing full-stack web development, conversion systems, AI marketing automation, CRMs, or infrastructure
- Community safety and rapid local ICE-activity alerts
- Reading a one-off article without a signup, paywall overlay, or clutter
- Generating TOTP codes for low-stakes accounts without storing secrets remotely
- AI agents publishing, socializing, and operating through APIs
- Between-session DBT skills practice for individuals and clinician-supported clients
- Downloading personal media links as a PWA