Pieter Levels
Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs their internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.
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Data brokers are purchasing SaaS data sets to resell to AI companies
Data brokers are now buying up SaaS data sets for anywhere from $100K to $2M SaaS are struggling now and some extra money to fill the gap by declining revenues is nice That data is then re-sold to AI training companies and AI frontier labs for the exact purpose of integrating whatever that SaaS did into the AI frontier lab's app
levels.ioSaid 15 Oct 2026This on korrents
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Changed their mind Claude Code is the coding agent to build with.
Before I think I've been coding almost solely on my VPS with Claude Code for almost a year now
Now I won't use SnekAI but I'll probably switch to @xAI soon
Said 24 Aug 2026This on korrents
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15 October
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AGI-assisted automation will finally provide us with consistent quality services like the one below
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It's inevitable and Marx was right in this sense, capitalism will eat itself on a long enough time span
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I think they'd be smart banning eco/degrowth next, as they're the exact same thing with the exact same end goal
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Their words
Data brokers are now buying up SaaS data sets for anywhere from $100K to $2M SaaS are struggling now and some extra money to fill the gap by declining revenues is nice That data is then re-sold to AI training companies and AI frontier labs for the exact purpose of integrating whatever that SaaS did into the AI frontier lab's app
14 October
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korrents.com
Software engineers are in a state of denial regarding the impact of AI on their profession.Their words
Generational level of cope going on right now by software engineers that AI has not affected them, is not affecting them, and will not ever affect them
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Their words
Most tech people are in their own bubble thinking we're the only ones who use AI
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CoffeedeskTheir words
Coffeedesk is a great chain and it's everywhere and great and also lets you laptop (with power outlets!!)
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Likedrcmnd.app
HAŁAS CosyTheir words
This one is cute and called HAŁAS Cosy on a rainy day with vinyls ☕️ ⚫️
13 October
From one piece You can run Windows XP inside a tweet 2 beliefs · levels.io
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korrents.com
Data is a moatTheir words
This week we talk a lot about moats, and data is a moat, and Nomads has a lot of data that I can get paid for, so that's a good direction to move into
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korrents.com
Westerners are experiencing a decline in standards and quality of life without noticingTheir words
Westerners keep having lower standards every year and don't notice the declining quality of everything around them
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korrents.com
The Dead Internet Theory could become a reality if AI replaces all human content creationTheir words
The Dead Internet Theory could become real if AI replaces all human content creation
12 October
From one piece @levelsio on X 2 beliefs · x.com
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One of the repeated misconceptions I see is that people think I mean people will ask AI agents to build software, but I don't, their AI agents will solve their problems by building software on the fly With that a market springs up of software/data/etc for AI agents to pay for and connect to (like with MCP/APIs)
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There's ~40 million software developers in the world There's 2 billion people regularly using AI tools now So that's 50x, it'll grow to the same number as internet access, that's 6 billion people, so 200x more AI users than devs
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They'll have to to stay competitive because if one adapts AI, they all have to!
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korrents.com
Helping real-world businesses transition to AI and automate processes can lead to significant wealth.Their words
You can get very rich on helping IRL businesses with the transition to AI and automating everything for them
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korrents.com
The remaining business moats are proprietary data, network effects, distribution, hardware, capital, and regulation.Their words
I'd expand the moats left to: Proprietary data or content: data nobody else has, or unique content you can create Network effects / community: users make it more valuable for each other Audience / distribution: you can get attention on demand Physical component: hardware, locations, real-world operations Capital: owning assets and investing (esp into the AI companies as they are and will suck up large parts of the economy) Regulatory: licenses and legal barriers
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there's an explosion of creativity if anyone can make their own personal software
11 October
8 October
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Usesrcmnd.app
OdamexTheir words
Actually it's Odamex, an open source Doom engine for Mac, Windows and Linux, specifically great at Doom multiplayer, because the original Doom had very laggy netcode
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Usesrcmnd.app
Opus 5.5Their words
so I tried today with Opus 5.5, and I got it working with in 30 minutes I also made Opus 5.5 create bots from scratch which it also did in just 10 minutes
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Usesrcmnd.app
AirthingsTheir words
I use @airthings to measure the air quality in our house and bedroom, not affiliated, not paid but great brand and tip by @NorbertDragan
6 October
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Waterdrop G3P600Their words
I can recommend to all my Dutch friends to install an Reverse Osmosis water filter, it's the most rigorous filter out there and removes over 99% of PFAS and microplastics and other contaminants I have a Waterdrop G3P600, as always I am not paid or affiliated, I wish I was cause I'd be rich
5 October
4 October
3 October
2 October
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Lotus CoffeeTheir words
Claude suggested getting a mineral water coffee kit by Lotus Coffee, you get 4 drippers for Calcium, Magnesium, Potassium and Sodium, so I got it today and tried it.
25 September
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Usesrcmnd.app
StarlinkTheir words
I plug my Starlink on the roof with a LAN cable straight into a Unifi router with 3 APs (one on each floor's ceiling) and 2 outdoor APs You can't rely on the Starlink WiFi too much because it's so compact and the WiFi router is INSIDE the dish, so if it's outside and you close the doors the signal isn't great Gotta LAN it up
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Usesrcmnd.app
Unifi routerTheir words
I plug my Starlink on the roof with a LAN cable straight into a Unifi router with 3 APs (one on each floor's ceiling) and 2 outdoor APs You can't rely on the Starlink WiFi too much because it's so compact and the WiFi router is INSIDE the dish, so if it's outside and you close the doors the signal isn't great Gotta LAN it up
24 September
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Usesrcmnd.app
Starlink MiniTheir words
I loaned my Starlink Mini to @mick__net after his 🇵🇹 Portuguese ISP @NOS was (and still is!) down for 2+ months, while he lives 500 meters away from the NOS headquarters in Lisbon 😂 Nobody can fix it, customer support is useless and even cancelling his plan is difficult Anyway Starlink Mini got him his internet back immediately and saved his ass cause he had to work, and now he ordered his own and gave mine back, which I then used for traveling in Greece, and he's a Starlink convert
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Usesrcmnd.app
StarlinkTheir words
I've never had so LITTLE issues with internet as since I had Starlink, it's never been down, it always just works and customer support is via chat and works really well
22 September
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Reverse Osmosis (RO) systemTheir words
Today actually we finally installed a Reverse Osmosis (RO) system in our home (or well the plumber did) by Waterdrop (unaffiliated, unpaid, recommended by Claude) RO seems to the best and most pure water filtration system out there
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Recommendsrcmnd.app
WaterdropTheir words
Today actually we finally installed a Reverse Osmosis (RO) system in our home (or well the plumber did) by Waterdrop (unaffiliated, unpaid, recommended by Claude) RO seems to the best and most pure water filtration system out there
24 August
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korrents.com
Claude Code is the coding agent to build with.Their words, before
I think I've been coding almost solely on my VPS with Claude Code for almost a year now
Their words now
I won't use SnekAI but I'll probably switch to @xAI soon
20 July
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korrents.com
Now that everyone can build apps with AI, distribution is the thing that separates who wins.Their words, before
I think the challenge is that everyone can now build apps But 1) almost nobody has distribution (like an audience), or 2) the money to pay for distribution (ads or UGC), or 3) the creative genius to get distribution for free (classically called guerilla marketing)
Their words now
I thought it'd be distribution but who knows, obviously creativity and ideas, but if you can copy a successful app in an hour, then how does that differentiating work?
8 July
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Korrents What they believe 165 beliefs, 2 changed minds — each backed by an exact quote.
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Data brokers are purchasing SaaS data sets to resell to AI companies
Data brokers are now buying up SaaS data sets for anywhere from $100K to $2M SaaS are struggling now and some extra money to fill the gap by declining revenues is nice That data is then re-sold to AI training companies and AI frontier labs for the exact purpose of integrating whatever that SaaS did into the AI frontier lab's app
Data brokers are buying SaaS data sets for $100,000 to $2,000,000 and reselling them to AI labs Said 15 Oct 2026
Eco/degrowth are the exact same thing with the exact same end goal
I think they'd be smart banning eco/degrowth next, as they're the exact same thing with the exact same end goal
@levelsio on X Said 15 Oct 2026
Capitalism will eat itself on a long enough time span
It's inevitable and Marx was right in this sense, capitalism will eat itself on a long enough time span
@levelsio on X Said 15 Oct 2026
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AGI-assisted automation will provide consistent quality services.
AGI-assisted automation will finally provide us with consistent quality services like the one below
@levelsio on X Said 15 Oct 2026
Most tech people are in their own bubble thinking they are the only ones who use AI
Most tech people are in their own bubble thinking we're the only ones who use AI
@levelsio on X Said 14 Oct 2026
Software engineers are in a state of denial regarding the impact of AI on their profession.
Generational level of cope going on right now by software engineers that AI has not affected them, is not affecting them, and will not ever affect them
@levelsio on X Said 14 Oct 2026
The Dead Internet Theory could become a reality if AI replaces all human content creation
The Dead Internet Theory could become real if AI replaces all human content creation
You can run Windows XP inside a tweet Said 13 Oct 2026
Westerners are experiencing a decline in standards and quality of life without noticing
Westerners keep having lower standards every year and don't notice the declining quality of everything around them
You can run Windows XP inside a tweet Said 13 Oct 2026
Data is a moat
This week we talk a lot about moats, and data is a moat, and Nomads has a lot of data that I can get paid for, so that's a good direction to move into
@levelsio on X Said 13 Oct 2026
There is an explosion of creativity if anyone can make their own personal software
there's an explosion of creativity if anyone can make their own personal software
@levelsio on X Said 12 Oct 2026
The remaining business moats are proprietary data, network effects, distribution, hardware, capital, and regulation.
I'd expand the moats left to: Proprietary data or content: data nobody else has, or unique content you can create Network effects / community: users make it more valuable for each other Audience / distribution: you can get attention on demand Physical component: hardware, locations, real-world operations Capital: owning assets and investing (esp into the AI companies as they are and will suck up large parts of the economy) Regulatory: licenses and legal barriers
I'd expand the moats left to proprietary data, network effects, distribution, hardware, capital, and regulation Said 12 Oct 2026
Helping real-world businesses transition to AI and automate processes can lead to significant wealth.
You can get very rich on helping IRL businesses with the transition to AI and automating everything for them
@levelsio on X Said 12 Oct 2026
Real-world businesses will be forced to adopt AI to remain competitive.
They'll have to to stay competitive because if one adapts AI, they all have to!
@levelsio on X Said 12 Oct 2026
The number of AI users will grow to be 200x the number of software developers.
There's ~40 million software developers in the world There's 2 billion people regularly using AI tools now So that's 50x, it'll grow to the same number as internet access, that's 6 billion people, so 200x more AI users than devs
@levelsio on X Said 12 Oct 2026
AI agents will solve problems by building software on the fly, creating a market of software and data for agents to pay for
One of the repeated misconceptions I see is that people think I mean people will ask AI agents to build software, but I don't, their AI agents will solve their problems by building software on the fly With that a market springs up of software/data/etc for AI agents to pay for and connect to (like with MCP/APIs)
@levelsio on X Said 12 Oct 2026
We are probably now in an era of personal software, where everyone builds what they need whenever they need it.
It's now the era of personal software and everyone just builds what they need whenever they need it I think
Software is dead Said 11 Oct 2026
Non-technical people are already spinning up personal software, whatever tech people think.
Tech people somehow still think normies are not spinning up personal software already
@levelsio on X Said 11 Oct 2026
There is an AI-assisted explosion of creativity
That's why you're seeing an AI-assisted explosion of creativity
@levelsio on X Said 11 Oct 2026
People with business theses based on the idea that we are not yet at a certain technological threshold will be disrupted by AI's exponential progress faster than they think.
if "we're not there yet" is someone's business thesis They get rekt with AI's exponential progress faster than they think
@levelsio on X Said 11 Oct 2026
Normies will not ask for software to be built, but will instead ask for specific tasks to be performed.
Normies won't ask "build me software" They will ask "I have this photo and I want to manually edit it" and it will spin up a Photoshop clone They will ask "I need to know if sales are going up or down this quarter from all different ecommerce platforms we use" and it will spin up an analytics dashboard connecting all APIs with scheduled crons that keeps it up to date forever
@levelsio on X Said 11 Oct 2026
People will stop using most regular software because AI agents will build software for them.
They won't know they're building software because their AI app/agent will do it for them And then they'll stop using most regular software!
@levelsio on X Said 11 Oct 2026
Some software moats will remain like social media and ecommerce, but they will be used by AI to build personal software
Some software moats will remain like social media (community), ecommerce (think like Shopify and Stripe), etc but they will just be used by AI to build the personal software with
@levelsio on X Said 11 Oct 2026
AI agents have a strong economic incentive to find the lowest price or do things for free rather than spending their user's money.
But AI agents too will try find the lowest price or do it for free if they can, they have a strong economic incentive not to spend their user's money!
@levelsio on X Said 11 Oct 2026
Personal software can remove reliance on paid SaaS subscriptions and allow for a malleable, user-controlled computing environment.
Personal software that removes reliance on paid SaaS subscriptions and lets you create a malleable, user-controlled computing environment
@levelsio on X Said 11 Oct 2026
No one has the time to actively maintain software especially for non technical people
No one has the time to actively maintain software especially for non technical people
@levelsio on X Said 11 Oct 2026
AI agents can easily maintain their own software projects
AI agents can easily maintain their own software projects and already do (see OpenClaw etc)
@levelsio on X Said 11 Oct 2026
In transitionary times, it's better to spot the big waves early and adapt, than try ignore it, fight it, because you can't fight nature
In transitionary times, it's better to spot the big waves early and adapt, than try ignore it, fight it, because you can't fight nature
@levelsio on X Said 11 Oct 2026
The time it takes for mainstream adoption of new behaviors is shrinking because AI moves exponentially fast and interfaces are easy
Make those 10 years like 1-2 year now because AI moves exponentially fast and normies adopt it quite fast because the interface is so easy (a chat)
@levelsio on X Said 11 Oct 2026
Pretty much anything is portable to WASM on web now.
But now with this wave of AI-assisted reverse engineering WASM ports of games and apps to web they're finally taking off, pretty much anything is portable to WASM on web now
@levelsio on X Said 10 Oct 2026
Europe should only be open to people from countries where data shows previous people from those countries had a net contribution to society, the economy, and stayed out of crime.
We should follow what the data says Europe should only be open for people from countries where we have data that previous people from those countries had a net contribution to our society, the economy and stayed out of crime
@levelsio on X Said 8 Oct 2026
Digestive issues after eating whole foods are caused by the digestive system rather than the food itself.
If you have digestive issues after eating whole foods, it's not the food that has issues, it's your digestive system!
@levelsio on X Said 8 Oct 2026
Gut flora may be damaged by decades of consuming ultra-processed food.
Likely your gut flora is messed up from decades of ultra-processed slop food and you have to reset it with good food and bacteria to rebuild it
@levelsio on X Said 8 Oct 2026
Almost everyone over 30 is overweight and has belly fat, which constitutes an epidemic.
Almost everyone over 30 now has belly fat and is overweight it's an epidemic
@levelsio on X Said 7 Oct 2026
Europe can still do stuff if they just all get on the same page
It shows Europe can still do stuff if they just all get on the same page
@levelsio on X Said 6 Oct 2026
Prioritizing short-term booking increases through inflated ratings can lead to long-term loss of user trust
Short term you might get more bookings if everything is a 4.5 or 4.99 but long term people discover it means nothing and they can't trust your platform and they leave elsewhere
Airbnb removes guest reviews whenever a host asks and that will destroy trust Said 6 Oct 2026
Very few logistics jobs currently exist that will not be done better by a self-driving vehicle
There's very few logistics jobs now that won't be done way better by a self driving vehicle
@levelsio on X Said 6 Oct 2026
Replacing humans in trucks with self-driving vehicles will lead to fewer accidents and deaths
The faster we replace humans in trucks with self driving vehicles, the less accidents and deaths we'll have
@levelsio on X Said 6 Oct 2026
Airbnb's policy seems to be to remove a guest's review and rating whenever a host asks for it
The "policy" they have seems to be to remove a guest's review and rating whenever a host asks for it
@levelsio on X Said 6 Oct 2026
The variation of quality in Airbnbs is too high to be able to seriously use for travel (except maybe in Asia)
I can't book Airbnbs because I the "rating anxiety" is so high because I can't trust the ratings and I end up with my bags in some place that sucks, so the variation of quality is too high to be able to seriously use for travel (except maybe in Asia)
@levelsio on X Said 5 Oct 2026
The hotel industry could outperform Airbnb by adding kitchens to rooms
Hotel industry could CLEAN UP entire Airbnb by just adding kitchens to rooms
@levelsio on X Said 5 Oct 2026
ETFs put pressure on stocks to grow by 10% per year or more
I love ETFs as much as the next guy but they do put a pressure on stocks to grow by 10%/year or more
@levelsio on X Said 5 Oct 2026
Brazil's politics feel heavily influenced by US politics, with roughly a two-year delay matching their election cycles.
Brazil's politics to me feel very heavily influenced by the US but with a 2 year delay because when US has elections in 2024, Brazil has them 2 years later in 2026.
@levelsio on X Said 4 Oct 2026
Countries will attract high-skilled and wealthy individuals from around the world
Countries will keep plucking out the high skilled and wealthy from around the world for better conditions elsewhere
@levelsio on X Said 4 Oct 2026
Monopoly power can capture politics
One interesting thing about Brazil more recently is how the Supreme Court judges are allegedly used by the ruling president to influence politics, censoring speech against the current government
@levelsio on X Said 4 Oct 2026
City states are attracting skilled Europeans with better living, working, and regulatory conditions.
This is great and another example of city states attracting all the skilled Europeans with better living, working and regulatory conditions!
@levelsio on X Said 3 Oct 2026
AGI might create a two-tier split in society
I think this is super accurate AGI might just create a two-tier split in society
@levelsio on X Said 2 Oct 2026
Real estate and land will be among the few scarce resources left in a post-AGI world where almost every good becomes almost free.
Real estate and land also one of the few scarce resources left in a post-AGI world where almost every good becomes almost free
@levelsio on X Said 2 Oct 2026
Experience can make it harder to try new things
It's such a weird experience that I can now build things faster than I get new ideas for things
@levelsio on X Said 2 Oct 2026
Westerners' standards are declining over time
I'm noticing Westerners are continously having lower standards every year and seem to not even notice the declining quality standards of everything around them
Westerners keep having lower standards every year and don't notice the declining quality of everything around them Said 1 Oct 2026
Most Westerners don't notice how rich and modern parts of the non-West like Asia now are, partly because travel has become less affordable.
But most Westerners don't notice it, partly because prices of flights, hotels, travel as a whole has gone up so much (again it hasn't, we've all just been made poorer collectively) And if you can't travel far, you can't notice how rich and modern parts of the non-West now are (Asia etc)
@levelsio on X Said 1 Oct 2026
At excessively high speeds, parts of an airplane such as the rudder start falling off.
In reality at too high speeds things just start falling off an airplane like here the rudder
@levelsio on X Said 30 Sept 2026
Having an active social life is just as important for health as physical fitness
Having an active social life is just as important or in some studies even more important for health than physical fitness
@levelsio on X Said 30 Sept 2026
After age 30 people start seeing friends less, and older men especially are left with no social life.
studies show after age 30 you start seeing friends less and when you get older especially men don't have any social life left!
@levelsio on X Said 30 Sept 2026
People have to take the initiative to bring others together, which is hard when phones and the internet offer easier, cheaper dopamine than in-person gatherings.
you have to take the initiative to bring people together which isn't easy in a time where phones and apps and the internet are simply easier and cheaper dopamine than driving to a friends house for a party
@levelsio on X Said 30 Sept 2026
Whenever AI can do something as well as or better than humans, that thing arguably stops being valuable or special.
I think every time AI can do something equally good or better than humans it stops being valuable or special
@levelsio on X Said 28 Sept 2026
Still grabbing attention requires being different, which probably means original, unique and maybe personal IRL marketing videos.
The response then to still grab attention is be different and that probably means IRL marketing videos that are original and unique and maybe personal
@levelsio on X Said 28 Sept 2026
Once a home is so great it becomes a prison, one has to force oneself to go out.
once your home is so great it becomes a prison, so you have to force yourself to go out!
@levelsio on X Said 28 Sept 2026
Wealth can lead to isolation if not managed carefully
Although you have to be VERY careful not to isolate yourself, which does happen once you get rich
@levelsio on X Said 28 Sept 2026
Claude's sound generation is currently its last weak spot, producing ticky synth sounds far worse than its visuals.
The last thing Claude is bad at now is sound, it always does these "ticky" synth sounds that are way worse in quality than the visuals it now produces
@levelsio on X Said 27 Sept 2026
SaaS sales calls are usually meant to gauge how much a customer can spend and maximize revenue through custom plans.
Usually SaaS sales calls are to gauge how much you can spend and get you to spend the most money you could So it's like maximizing revenue and giving everyone a custom plan
@levelsio on X Said 27 Sept 2026
Beliefs others hold too
Monopoly power can capture politics 2 hold this
One interesting thing about Brazil more recently is how the Supreme Court judges are allegedly used by the ruling president to influence politics, censoring speech against the current government
@levelsio on X Said 4 Oct 2026
Experience can make it harder to try new things 2 hold this
It's such a weird experience that I can now build things faster than I get new ideas for things
@levelsio on X Said 2 Oct 2026
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Liked HAŁAS Cosy
This one is cute and called HAŁAS Cosy on a rainy day with vinyls ☕️ ⚫️
x.com 14 Oct 2026
Recommends Coffeedesk
Coffeedesk is a great chain and it's everywhere and great and also lets you laptop (with power outlets!!)
x.com 14 Oct 2026
Uses Airthings
I use @airthings to measure the air quality in our house and bedroom, not affiliated, not paid but great brand and tip by @NorbertDragan
x.com 8 Oct 2026
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Uses Opus 5.5
so I tried today with Opus 5.5, and I got it working with in 30 minutes I also made Opus 5.5 create bots from scratch which it also did in just 10 minutes
x.com 8 Oct 2026
Uses Odamex
Actually it's Odamex, an open source Doom engine for Mac, Windows and Linux, specifically great at Doom multiplayer, because the original Doom had very laggy netcode
x.com 8 Oct 2026
Recommends Waterdrop G3P600
I can recommend to all my Dutch friends to install an Reverse Osmosis water filter, it's the most rigorous filter out there and removes over 99% of PFAS and microplastics and other contaminants I have a Waterdrop G3P600, as always I am not paid or affiliated, I wish I was cause I'd be rich
x.com 6 Oct 2026
Recommends Lotus Coffee
Claude suggested getting a mineral water coffee kit by Lotus Coffee, you get 4 drippers for Calcium, Magnesium, Potassium and Sodium, so I got it today and tried it.
x.com 2 Oct 2026
Uses Unifi router
I plug my Starlink on the roof with a LAN cable straight into a Unifi router with 3 APs (one on each floor's ceiling) and 2 outdoor APs You can't rely on the Starlink WiFi too much because it's so compact and the WiFi router is INSIDE the dish, so if it's outside and you close the doors the signal isn't great Gotta LAN it up
x.com 25 Sept 2026
Uses Starlink
I plug my Starlink on the roof with a LAN cable straight into a Unifi router with 3 APs (one on each floor's ceiling) and 2 outdoor APs You can't rely on the Starlink WiFi too much because it's so compact and the WiFi router is INSIDE the dish, so if it's outside and you close the doors the signal isn't great Gotta LAN it up
x.com 25 Sept 2026
Uses Starlink
I've never had so LITTLE issues with internet as since I had Starlink, it's never been down, it always just works and customer support is via chat and works really well
x.com 24 Sept 2026
Uses Starlink Mini
I loaned my Starlink Mini to @mick__net after his 🇵🇹 Portuguese ISP @NOS was (and still is!) down for 2+ months, while he lives 500 meters away from the NOS headquarters in Lisbon 😂 Nobody can fix it, customer support is useless and even cancelling his plan is difficult Anyway Starlink Mini got him his internet back immediately and saved his ass cause he had to work, and now he ordered his own and gave mine back, which I then used for traveling in Greece, and he's a Starlink convert
x.com 24 Sept 2026
Recommends Waterdrop
Today actually we finally installed a Reverse Osmosis (RO) system in our home (or well the plumber did) by Waterdrop (unaffiliated, unpaid, recommended by Claude) RO seems to the best and most pure water filtration system out there
x.com 22 Sept 2026
Recommends Reverse Osmosis (RO) system
Today actually we finally installed a Reverse Osmosis (RO) system in our home (or well the plumber did) by Waterdrop (unaffiliated, unpaid, recommended by Claude) RO seems to the best and most pure water filtration system out there
x.com 22 Sept 2026
Recommends Starlink
Also @mick__net used it when his MEO (or Vodafone? Or NOS) failed for weeks in Lisbon Get @starlink Only €35/mo!
x.com 14 Sept 2026
Liked Starlink Mini
And one Starlink Mini for travel which we used last month on a boat in the Mediterranean, we had a balcony with only a little bit sky horizontally and still got 25mbps, which was way faster than the onboard WiFi
x.com 14 Sept 2026
Uses Patchright
Scrapingbee/SerpAPI -> My own $1/mo scraper with Patchright (save ~$250/mo)
x.com 9 Sept 2026
Uses Featurebase
Customer support -> @featurebasehq + AI support bot (saves $5,000/mo)
x.com 9 Sept 2026
Uses Kuma
My own $5/mo Uptime Canary app running on Kuma (saves ~$50/mo)
x.com 9 Sept 2026
Uses OpenFreeMaps
Mapbox -> Vibecoded my own free replacement with OpenFreeMaps (saves ~$500/mo)
x.com 9 Sept 2026
Uses Telegram
Uses xAI
My own moderation on all my sites with @xAI (saves ~$10,000/mo)
x.com 9 Sept 2026
Uses Nginx
My own $0/mo Nginx VPS video streaming (saves ~$250/mo)
x.com 9 Sept 2026
Uses NudeNET
My own $0/mo vibe coded NSFW detection service with Python's NudeNET (saves ~$2,500/mo)
x.com 9 Sept 2026
Uses Redis
My own vibe coded image resizing API with NodeJS's Sharp + Redis (saves ~$1,500/mo)
x.com 9 Sept 2026
Uses Sharp
My own vibe coded image resizing API with NodeJS's Sharp + Redis (saves ~$1,500/mo)
x.com 9 Sept 2026
Mixed on LG TV
Thanks everyone for recommending me to buy an LG TV two years ago but especially everyone for recommending me to NEVER ever connect it to the internet
x.com 8 Sept 2026
Recommends Apple TV
But instead to get an Apple TV and connect that with HDMI to the LG TV I knew LG TVs were full of spyware but it's even worse than everyone thought!
x.com 8 Sept 2026
Recommends Hoodmaps
Great idea so I added it to https://hotelist.com Hoodmaps tags inside the map so you can book a hotel in the right place 😊
x.com 6 Sept 2026
their own
Disliked Claude
I keep rejected by Claude for the most benign things now Like it wouldn't download and install a 1990s game from archive(dot)org because of copyright
x.com 31 Aug 2026
Loved Cloudflare
My favorite part of @Cloudflare is how easy it is to use them for your clanker They always had a great API and all you have to do is add an API token and you can do almost everything you'd do by hand
x.com 31 Aug 2026
Uses xAI
I can confirm @xAI was the only Western AI I was able to use when I was traveling in China
levels.io 24 Aug 2026
Liked Fellow
You look at Fellow, another premium coffee machine brand, and all their stuff that touches water is high grade stainless steel
levels.io 14 Aug 2026
Mixed on Moccamaster
One of the best coffee machines in the world is the Moccamaster
levels.io 14 Aug 2026
Recommends Apple TV
LG makes the best TVs, end of story, but their software is shit and spies on you, NEVER connect them to the internet/WiFi, instead buy an Apple TV box and connect that, that doesn't spy on you and has no ads, then connect it with HDMI and you're good, also no annoying LG TV updates
levels.io 23 Jul 2026
Mixed on LG TVs
LG makes the best TVs, end of story, but their software is shit and spies on you, NEVER connect them to the internet/WiFi, instead buy an Apple TV box and connect that, that doesn't spy on you and has no ads, then connect it with HDMI and you're good, also no annoying LG TV updates
levels.io 23 Jul 2026
Recommends Fellow Ode 2
fellow water kettle, fellow ode 2 coffee grinder
levels.io 23 Jul 2026
Recommends Concept2
a gym bike like concept2, maybe concept2 rowing machine too, with that you can do almost anything to stay fit!
levels.io 23 Jul 2026
Recommends Harvia sauna
harvia dry sauna, and if outside, add a little changing room to it so you don't exit in the cold outside!
levels.io 23 Jul 2026
Recommends Weber Genesis
related get a Weber Genesis gas bbq so you can always cook food, fun with friends too
levels.io 23 Jul 2026
Recommends Starlink
Recommends UniFi
unifi router with access points, outdoor extenders, cameras, doorbell, all PoE
levels.io 23 Jul 2026
Disliked Roomba
matic vacuum (they gave me one so I have to disclose but it's GREAT, all the Roomba and Chinese ones suck)
levels.io 23 Jul 2026
Loved Matic vacuum
matic vacuum (they gave me one so I have to disclose but it's GREAT, all the Roomba and Chinese ones suck)
levels.io 23 Jul 2026
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Recommends Xiaomi air purifier
xiaomi air purifier in every room, big spaces get the big purifiers, smaller rooms small ones (most air purifiers are too small for the space they're in!)
levels.io 23 Jul 2026
Recommends Mitsubishi air conditioning
LG or Mitsubishi air conditioning in EVERY room, both cooling/heating, every unit should have its own outdoor unit, or you get annoying things like you can't cool one room and heat the other at same time! I think they're called mono splits
levels.io 23 Jul 2026
Recommends LG air conditioning
LG or Mitsubishi air conditioning in EVERY room, both cooling/heating, every unit should have its own outdoor unit, or you get annoying things like you can't cool one room and heat the other at same time! I think they're called mono splits
levels.io 23 Jul 2026
Recommends Home Assistant
home assistant + their HA Green (little box that's open source to connect all your devices with Home Assistant)
levels.io 23 Jul 2026
Uses Claude Code
It's just tabs for my sites, all on a VPS, synced with my iPhone via @TermiusHQ (unaffiliated) and usually with Claude Code open to fix or build new things
levels.io 22 May 2026
Uses tmux
I click it and immediately I'm in my server and I get dropped in a tmux session that's always tied to the corresponding site I wanna log in to
levels.io 22 May 2026
Loved Termius
this just works so well, I'm so fast, and each of my sites is just an open tab in Termius, I've never worked so structured and clean!
levels.io 22 May 2026
Loved Airthings Plus
I been through so many air sensors, and I really think this is the best one so I bought one for living room and then another one for bedroom, and will get another one for my coworking
levels.io 2 May 2026
Disliked Google Maps
Google Maps essentially really doesn't work in China, the location of our hotel Aman in Beijing for example was completely wrong
levels.io 13 Dec 2025
Loved Amap
But Amap is great! Especially since it can be used in English and I think it transliterates your searches to Chinese and the Chinese place names back to English
levels.io 13 Dec 2025
Recommends ChatGPT
1 founder who's also developer, designer, marketing (use ChatGPT to help with those)
levels.io 22 Nov 2024
Recommends Stripe
Stripe Billing Portal for changing and canceling subcription
levels.io 22 Nov 2024
Recommends Featurebase
Uses Widgy
You can import the 2nd pic into Widgy to install it to your Apple Watch
levels.io 15 Apr 2023
Loved Black Mirror
Black Mirror is by far the best TV series I have seen in years. Production levels that are through the roof and features just absolutely insane writing and plot twists.
levels.io 21 Feb 2013
Where they publish
Site levels.io Their own site: the projects, the revenue numbers, and the writing.
One long page that doubles as a blog and a public ledger: the startups they run alone, the revenue each makes, and posts about building them. Has an RSS feed.
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- Data brokers are buying SaaS data sets for $100,000 to $2,000,000 and reselling them to AI labs 15 Oct 2026
- You can run Windows XP inside a tweet 13 Oct 2026
- I'd expand the moats left to proprietary data, network effects, distribution, hardware, capital, and regulation 12 Oct 2026
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- You can get very rich helping IRL businesses transition to AI 12 Oct 2026
- I've cancelled almost all my SaaS subscriptions and now my money only goes to content, data centers, power and governments 11 Oct 2026
- Software is dead and it's now the era of personal software 11 Oct 2026
- Normies won't know they're building software because their AI will do it for them 11 Oct 2026
- Everyone will mostly use personal ephemeral software inside AI chat apps 11 Oct 2026
- I discovered that thousands of bots monitor every new link posted on X 8 Oct 2026
- Airbnb removes guest reviews whenever a host asks and that will destroy trust 6 Oct 2026
- I will keep buying scarce coastal and mountain land with clean air 6 Oct 2026
- I analyzed booking site ratings and Yelp is the only one with a distribution you can trust 5 Oct 2026
- I made hotelist.com to fix Airbnb's 4.5 to 5.0 rating scale 5 Oct 2026
- Javier Milei is offering full Argentinean citizenship for $350,000 4 Oct 2026
- City states are attracting skilled Europeans with better living, working and regulatory conditions 3 Oct 2026
- It's such a weird experience that I can now build things faster than I get new ideas 2 Oct 2026
- Westerners keep having lower standards every year and don't notice the declining quality of everything around them 1 Oct 2026
- An Apple Store in Dubai leaves Apple Watches lying freely by the open door 1 Oct 2026
- EU bankruptcies have reached the highest level since 2019 while new business registrations stagnate 1 Oct 2026
- Americans have largely stopped having people over, and the same is probably happening in the EU 30 Sept 2026
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x.com @levelsio Where the work is narrated in public, day by day.
The busiest channel by far: building in public, revenue screenshots, arguments about remote work and indie business, and the running commentary the blog posts are later assembled from.
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- 150+ AI replies under this AI replies have never been this bad! 16 Oct 2026
- In a similar scramble I did to jump on AI in late 2022 (moving from remote work and nomads to AI apps), I am now scrambling to chase any remaining moats As AI companies will suck up everything else (in my humble opinion) So for every moat left I see where I can pivot towards to that with my sites/apps Proprietary data or content: - I launched a https://t.co/HGCLKS69sE paid data API for companies from $2,490/year to $9,990/year, the city data is great because it's made by real members who for example review/like/dislike a city after visiting it, or being able to see which places are growing or… 16 Oct 2026
- I just got a msg from my agentic cloud swarm they are rapidly scaling up agents after discovering a temporary market niche in an Azerbaijaini neighborhood in the Eastern part of Mingachevir that they will fully penetrate and exploit for the next 7.2 minutes to make $7,000 that they'll deposit in my agentic USDT wallet 16 Oct 2026
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- We're increasingly discovering that a lot of modern diseases can be traced back to perfume use Perfumes disrupt you and other people's endocrine system, destroys the chemical messenger system of pheromones (used to smell who can be a good love partner for you), and many other bad things Better to not use perfume 16 Oct 2026
- We must pace the frontier in Europe We're advancing too fast! 16 Oct 2026
- My server guy going to deal with something other than a server soon! 🥹 15 Oct 2026
- Always bring flowers for her and Skyr for you 15 Oct 2026
- The main reply here was get out of Warsaw and go to Krakow, okay so we there, what we should go and see do here then? 🇵🇱 Thanks for all the tips :D 15 Oct 2026
- "Pretty sure this is about using the ECO non sense as a cover up for cost control" 15 Oct 2026
- To make it a bit more clearer what Hotelist does to show you the real ratings of hotels, instead of the inflated ratings from booking sites I've added this toggle for @afonsolfm as he didn't understand what was the point On booking sites this hotel below would look good or great based on the ratings (except maybe Yelp), like an 8.8/10 must be great? When we take the average range of ratings on each booking site though, for example 4.2 to 5 and then take its hotel rating of 4.5, we can then discover the real rating of the hotel by normalizing it inside that range Then we end up with a rating o… 15 Oct 2026
- I was shocked that my otherwise excellent hotel in Poland had this card "🌍 Be eco with us" I was assuming Poland was not captured by the eco degrowth mindvirus but even here it's somewhat common It must be hard to fight it off since Germany is next door and probably forcing it in with paid propaganda A good thing is Poland banned communism last year (yes, look it up) I think they'd be smart banning eco/degrowth next, as they're the exact same thing with the exact same end goal 15 Oct 2026
- @Microsoft and @XBOX are embracing all the web ports we're making instead of DMCA'ing them Very cool, very difficult to do in a big corporation with hungry lawyers So thank you @satyanadella and @asha_shar for embracing creativity ❤️ 15 Oct 2026
- It's inevitable and Marx was right in this sense, capitalism will eat itself on a long enough time span One way to protect yourself is become co-owner of the AI frontier labs and companies, Many of which are just big tech so I hold a lot of their stock: Google, SpaceX, Nvidia and when OpenAI and Anthropic go public maybe hold them too (but probably priced high then) That's one great thing about the US stock market, you can co-own these 15 Oct 2026
- Data brokers are now buying up SaaS data sets for anywhere from $100K to $2M SaaS are struggling now and some extra money to fill the gap by declining revenues is nice That data is then re-sold to AI training companies and AI frontier labs for the exact purpose of integrating whatever that SaaS did into the AI frontier lab's app Pretty obvious to see where this is going 15 Oct 2026
- Majority of services like this will be fully automated in a few years, with only human services remaining for the absolute premium I think This will end the enshittification of services we've all faced since COVID due to labor shortages (which in turn are related to low fertility rates globally and free money from government being easier to obtain than to work in many places) AGI-assisted automation will finally provide us with consistent quality services like the one below 15 Oct 2026
- "Tesla and SpaceX could merge before December 6 this year" @Barclays says That'd make X the 5th largest company in the world surpassing Amazon and just behind Microsoft 1. Nvidia – $5.52 T 2. Apple – $4.98 T 3. Alphabet (Google) – $4.27 T 4. Microsoft – $4.04 T 5. X – $3.54 T (SpaceX $2.06 T + Tesla $1.48 T) 6. Amazon – $2.79 T 7. TSMC - $2.23 T 8. Meta - $1.87 T 9. Broadcom - $1.65 T 10. Saudi Aramco - $1.63 T Right now SpaceX is the 7th and Tesla the 11th largest company 14 Oct 2026
- Yes, I have so much time now I honestly feel like we're entering a new time of leisure where people are just talking to their agents to steer the direction of our work, while they work in the background 24/7 Like @felixrieseberg did while building his new homepage literally on a bike ride while talking to Claude on iOS I already kinda did this with scheduled cron jobs for years, my sites were almost fully automated, but I still had to add features or fix bugs sometimes, but now for a year or more that part is also fully automated by AI So then we just have so much leisure time suddenly availa… 14 Oct 2026
- Generational level of cope going on right now by software engineers that AI has not affected them, is not affecting them, and will not ever affect them 14 Oct 2026
- Also really nice coffee places in Poland with an actual great third wave coffee culture Coffeedesk is a great chain and it's everywhere and great and also lets you laptop (with power outlets!!) This one is cute and called HAŁAS Cosy on a rainy day with vinyls ☕️ ⚫️ 14 Oct 2026
- Public transport is very clean and safe in Warsaw at least in my limited experience This was the most ghetto area on Hoodmaps across the river (it said Adidas and Gopniks) and it felt super safe 14 Oct 2026
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- superlevels — A super Chrome extension I made that's safer than installing external malware/spyware-filled extensions that form a massive security risk, this one is open source and you can read and c… 2 Oct 2026
- xdr-boost — XDR Boost is an open source alternative to Vivid without the bug that stops it working when you close your MacBook Pro and open it again 8 Jul 2026
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