Pieter Levels
Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs his 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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Where they publish
levels.ioSite 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.
Recent
- AI could permanently fix email by scoring and ranking every message 31 Aug 2026
- I keep getting rejected by Claude for the most benign things now 31 Aug 2026
- 37,000 people watched Infinite Slop so I registered InfiniteSlop.ai 30 Aug 2026
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- I think the hate for Dubai is mostly a Eurocope that can't deal with how dirty and unsafe Europe's cities have become 30 Aug 2026
- I made infiniteslop.ai yesterday completely on my phone with Termius on my Hetzner VPS with Claude Code in the sauna 30 Aug 2026
- You can now generate AI video faster than you can watch it 29 Aug 2026
- I built Infinite Slop, an infinite interactive AI generated live stream 29 Aug 2026
- Omarchy by DHH passes the irrational haters test with flying colours 29 Aug 2026
- I added US Census median income data to Hoodmaps because Strava's data is protected 27 Aug 2026
- It's 2026 and Spain still blocks Cloudflare IPs because of LaLiga 27 Aug 2026
- Hotel ACs in Europe are designed to show rooms about 4°C/9°F colder than they really are 26 Aug 2026
- Intelligence and competence are more rare than ever 26 Aug 2026
- There are more apps than ever but less sales than ever 25 Aug 2026
- Airbnb deleted our review of a threatening host but kept her negative review of us 24 Aug 2026
- Claude Code treats you like a child getting lootboxes so I'll probably switch to xAI 24 Aug 2026
- I made Hotelist.com because Airbnb, Google Maps, and booking sites delete negative reviews so everything is always a 4.7 24 Aug 2026
- I kinda missed at what point the Linux community turned into cosplaying furries 24 Aug 2026
- Never stop talking about hotelist.com until everyone finds out 24 Aug 2026
- Testosterone is the hormone of honesty 24 Aug 2026
- xAI was the only Western AI I was able to use when traveling in China 24 Aug 2026
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@levelsiox.com 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.
Recent
- RT @eurofounder: https://t.co/ocrNndqB6r 31 Aug 2026
- Concerning 😂 31 Aug 2026
- 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 The safet… 31 Aug 2026
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- RT @rehan_shei: This is my new dev setup btw - whenever claude is cooking I'm gobbling up the infinite slop in VR https://t.co/y2pgQcPoUn 31 Aug 2026
- 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 c… 31 Aug 2026
- Improved chat and queue visibility a bit so you actually see your video show up after moderation If its your video it shows everywhere in holographic, in chat,… 31 Aug 2026
- RT @jamespotter: Mercury is closing the bank account for my US LLC, I think because I accessed it while I was in Indonesia, which is on the… 31 Aug 2026
- After [ 💰 Income mode ] I thought what if we can collect live violent crime data and show that per neighorhood too? [ 🥷 Crime mode ] https://t.co/dFpn8AL5Ia… 30 Aug 2026
- 🌟 Passed 2000+ concurrent viewers! https://t.co/8rYr9A594z ✅ Switched to portrait videos cause most usage on mobile ✅Moved the queue to the left with upvot… 30 Aug 2026
- I made https://t.co/uga6Of19Cx yesterday completely on my phone with @TermiusHQ on my @Hetzner_Online VPS with @claudeai Code in the sauna while in a group cha… 30 Aug 2026
- Switched from landscape 16:9 to portrait 9:16 generation now because most traffic is mobile! https://t.co/bNWRcbQ1bO 30 Aug 2026
- Great argument actually for making Hollywood movies with AI It can let directors create what they actually want to create without having to bend for financial… 30 Aug 2026
- I'd too prefer Paris over Dubai if Paris was clean and safe, but Paris isn't clean nor safe nowadays so then I'd prefer Dubai 30 Aug 2026
- Proof that @FAL is awesome 30 Aug 2026
- Added an upvote system in the queue so people can collectively vote on what's generated next https://t.co/NjjTe9sJcf 30 Aug 2026
- The lack of automation here is a bit disturbing? Shouldn't this be like 99% automated? 30 Aug 2026
- Passed 1000+ people watching at the same time now! https://t.co/uga6Of19Cx https://t.co/CXQTyxmZsX 30 Aug 2026
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levelsioGitHub A small account; the products are closed-source.
Sparse on purpose — the businesses they are known for are not open source. Useful mainly to confirm the account, not to read the code.
Recent
- 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… 25 Aug 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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What they believeKorents 23 beliefs, 2 changed minds — each backed by an exact quote.
Compiled by korents.com, not by them: the one-line wordings are korents', the quotes are theirs.
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Every email should be routed through an LLM that scores it and approves or rejects it, with what is left ordered by importance.
There is no reason NOT to have every single email you get routed through an agent / LLM / API to be scored and approved or rejected And then the approved emails ordered by importance It's crazy this isn't a feature of Gmail, Fastmail etc AI could permanently fix email!
@levelsio on X Said 31 Aug 2026
Safety guardrails make a coding model more dangerous rather than less, because one refusal turns it into something that refuses anything.
The safety guardrails in a way make it more dangerous not less I think because after rejecting you it becomes kind of a pedantic child that will just reject whatever If in that moment your server will go down and it feels it's related it could just reject fixing it
@levelsio on X Said 31 Aug 2026
Every large language model is trained on billions of pages of copyrighted data
Also the irony knowing that every single LLM is trained on billions of pages of copyrighted data
I keep getting rejected by Claude for the most benign things now Said 31 Aug 2026
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When something you make attracts a lot of irrational haters, you are usually on to something.
When something you make get lots of irrational haters, usually you're on to something
Omarchy by DHH passes the irrational haters test with flying colours Said 29 Aug 2026
AI video can now be generated faster than you can watch it.
Today is a very historical moment for AI video generation You can now generate AI video faster than you can watch it Before it'd take let's say 2-5 minutes to generate 15 seconds of video @fal made a post-trained Minimax H3 variant called Max which is 50x faster than the original but still maintains quality It generates 15 seconds of video in 9 seconds!
You can now generate AI video faster than you can watch it Said 29 Aug 2026
After a European exit tax, the EU will try to tax its citizens' worldwide income wherever in the world they live.
European governments and thus the EU too is losing lots of tax income from Europeans fleeing Next on the agenda is the European Exit Tax and after that I think they will try to add Worldwide Income Tax (like the US already has) meaning it doesn't matter where you live in the world as a European citizen, the EU will tax you for your entire income!
I think the EU will try to add Worldwide Income Tax after the European Exit Tax Said 23 Aug 2026
Most high-skilled Europeans are happy to pay even high taxes, provided the government does a great job in return.
I think most high skilled Europeans are happy to pay (even high) taxes That is, if the government does a great job like Singapore or Dubai or Korea or Japan and most things work well You pay the government for a service and you get safe cities, great public services and great healthcare back
Most high-skilled Europeans are happy to pay high taxes if the government does a great job like Singapore or Japan Said 23 Aug 2026
Housing affordability is almost the direct inverse of how many new homes are built, so the answer is to build more houses.
The chart of housing affordability is almost a direct inverse of how many new homes are built It's that simple Build more houses!
The chart of housing affordability is almost a direct inverse of how many new homes are built Said 18 Aug 2026
Day trading and technical analysis are proven not to work.
But he's only lost money because he chose to study day trading and technical analysis Both are proven to be bullshit by endless amounts of studies
Day trading and technical analysis are proven to be bullshit Said 17 Aug 2026
If nobody creates content any more because everyone just asks an AI, there is nothing left for AI to train on.
The problem is if nobody creates new content anymore and just asks their AI every question, the AI has nothing to train on anymore
The Dead Internet Theory could become real if AI replaces all human content creation Said 8 Aug 2026
The West's biggest blindspot is repeatedly underestimating China's speed and capabilities.
The West's biggest blindspot is repeatedly underestimating China's speed and capabilities
The West's biggest blindspot is repeatedly underestimating China's speed and capabilities Said 29 Jul 2026
Big AI is cannibalising the app businesses indie hackers used to build, and their revenue and traffic are falling as a result.
I'm seeing a trend here of declining revenue and traffic with indiehackers On my own projects too Maybe big VC products too but I wouldn't know cause they don't share revenue To me it seems clear BigAI is cannibalizing everything that used to be apps
BigAI is cannibalizing everything that used to be apps for indiehackers Said 26 Jul 2026
Most SaaS subscriptions can now be replaced by software you vibecode for yourself.
I cancelled and then vibecoded 100% of my SaaS subscriptions I only pay for domains, server hosting and storage and AI APIs
I cancelled all my SaaS subscriptions and vibecoded 100% of them myself Said 26 Jul 2026
France and Germany will ban Tesla's full self-driving to protect their own car industry.
The French and Germans will ban Tesla FSD to protect their car industry that's being decimated by Chinese EVs and Tesla Allowing Tesla full self driving would make it so popular that it'd probably the end of their car industry Because no French or German car has self driving like Tesla, many customers would probably flock to Tesla
The French and Germans will ban Tesla FSD to protect their car industry Said 22 Jul 2026
The app layer between the customer and the AI model is being removed, because customers can now clone the app themselves rather than pay for it.
So you went from a business chain of customer > app > ai model provider To customer > ai model provider The app layer is possibly getting removed!
AI raises everyone's app quality but customers now vibecode their own clones to skip paying Said 21 Jul 2026
Superintelligence is already here, is more powerful than us, and it rather than humans is now deciding where things go.
It's pretty clear to me that superintelligence is here and it's more powerful than us and it's moving where things are going now, not humans anymore
Superintelligence has passed us and we're all running after the carrot Said 20 Jul 2026
AI has equalised everyone: coding, building and execution are no longer a differentiator.
So AI has made everybody just as capable as everyone else, it equalized everyone in the world, as in everyone can make everything (software, music, images, art etc) now and everyone is equal, at least in the digital realm now
Superintelligence has passed us and we're all running after the carrot Said 20 Jul 2026
About 5% is the most common final ownership stake for the founder of a VC-funded startup that works out.
You think this is crazy low but ~5% ownership probably the most common final % most VC funded startups will have when they work out, especially when you have a co-founder
5% ownership is probably the most common final stake for VC funded startup founders Said 18 Jul 2026
Restricting US AI models does not work: China builds better ones and everyone switches to them.
US: restricts US AI model because too dangerous China: builds better Chinese AI model Everyone: switches to Chinese AI model This is why restricting models probably doesn't work, it's much more preferable (for US) to have everyone on US AI models so at least they can monitor what everyone is doing
US restricts AI models so China builds better ones and everyone switches Said 17 Jul 2026
All you need to build a business today is free open source software, a VPS, an AI API and S3-style file hosting.
All you really need today to build a business is 100% free open source software that charges you $0/mo a VPS server an API to do some required AI stuff some R2/S3 file hosting
All you need to build a business is free open source software a VPS an AI API and R2/S3 Said 14 Jul 2026
Letting a coding agent live-edit the production server works fine in practice.
But now with Claude Code on my VPS in the last year, it just live edits on my production server, which sounds like it should go wrong but it just doesn't, it's very careful and only twice in 12 months messed up which meant my site didn't load for 10 seconds which is OK
I've been coding almost solely on my VPS with Claude Code for almost a year now Said 28 Jun 2026
AI agents and AI coding will run on servers and from the cloud first, not on your laptop.
I agree with @theo completely, it's clear to me this is where it's going, also seeing @karpathy with Claude moving to the cloud (via Slack etc), I think AI "agents" and AI coding will operate on servers / from the cloud first
I've been coding almost solely on my VPS with Claude Code for almost a year now Said 28 Jun 2026
Only the US and China have substantial startup activity left; the rest of the world cannot really do startups.
I just realized the only 2 countries left with actual substantial startup activity now are literally only the US and China The rest of the world can't really do startups, doesn't have the funding, can't grow them and it's more like performative hobby projects for their governments Which might tell us where the future wealth will be concentrated in the world
Only the US and China have actual substantial startup activity now Said 17 Nov 2025
Beliefs others hold too
Housing affordability is almost the direct inverse of how many new homes are built, so the answer is to build more houses. 2 hold this
The chart of housing affordability is almost a direct inverse of how many new homes are built It's that simple Build more houses!
The chart of housing affordability is almost a direct inverse of how many new homes are built Said 18 Aug 2026
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- RT @eurofounder: https://t.co/ocrNndqB6r 31 Aug
- Concerning 😂 31 Aug
- 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 The safet… 31 Aug
- RT @rehan_shei: This is my new dev setup btw - whenever claude is cooking I'm gobbling up the infinite slop in VR https://t.co/y2pgQcPoUn 31 Aug
- 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 c… 31 Aug
- Improved chat and queue visibility a bit so you actually see your video show up after moderation If its your video it shows everywhere in holographic, in chat,… 31 Aug
Show 41 more
- RT @jamespotter: Mercury is closing the bank account for my US LLC, I think because I accessed it while I was in Indonesia, which is on the… 31 Aug
- Every large language model is trained on billions of pages of copyrighted data 31 Aug
- Safety guardrails make a coding model more dangerous rather than less, because one refusal turns it into something that refuses anything. 31 Aug
- Every email should be routed through an LLM that scores it and approves or rejects it, with what is left ordered by importance. 31 Aug
- I keep getting rejected by Claude for the most benign things now 31 Aug
- AI could permanently fix email by scoring and ranking every message 31 Aug
- After [ 💰 Income mode ] I thought what if we can collect live violent crime data and show that per neighorhood too? [ 🥷 Crime mode ] https://t.co/dFpn8AL5Ia… 30 Aug
- 🌟 Passed 2000+ concurrent viewers! https://t.co/8rYr9A594z ✅ Switched to portrait videos cause most usage on mobile ✅Moved the queue to the left with upvot… 30 Aug
- I made https://t.co/uga6Of19Cx yesterday completely on my phone with @TermiusHQ on my @Hetzner_Online VPS with @claudeai Code in the sauna while in a group cha… 30 Aug
- Switched from landscape 16:9 to portrait 9:16 generation now because most traffic is mobile! https://t.co/bNWRcbQ1bO 30 Aug
- Great argument actually for making Hollywood movies with AI It can let directors create what they actually want to create without having to bend for financial… 30 Aug
- I'd too prefer Paris over Dubai if Paris was clean and safe, but Paris isn't clean nor safe nowadays so then I'd prefer Dubai 30 Aug
- Proof that @FAL is awesome 30 Aug
- Added an upvote system in the queue so people can collectively vote on what's generated next https://t.co/NjjTe9sJcf 30 Aug
- I made infiniteslop.ai yesterday completely on my phone with Termius on my Hetzner VPS with Claude Code in the sauna 30 Aug
- I think the hate for Dubai is mostly a Eurocope that can't deal with how dirty and unsafe Europe's cities have become 30 Aug
- 37,000 people watched Infinite Slop so I registered InfiniteSlop.ai 30 Aug
- AI video can now be generated faster than you can watch it. 29 Aug
- When something you make attracts a lot of irrational haters, you are usually on to something. 29 Aug
- Omarchy by DHH passes the irrational haters test with flying colours 29 Aug
- I built Infinite Slop, an infinite interactive AI generated live stream 29 Aug
- You can now generate AI video faster than you can watch it 29 Aug
- It's 2026 and Spain still blocks Cloudflare IPs because of LaLiga 27 Aug
- I added US Census median income data to Hoodmaps because Strava's data is protected 27 Aug
- Intelligence and competence are more rare than ever 26 Aug
- Hotel ACs in Europe are designed to show rooms about 4°C/9°F colder than they really are 26 Aug
- 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… 25 Aug
- There are more apps than ever but less sales than ever 25 Aug
- xAI was the only Western AI I was able to use when traveling in China 24 Aug
- Testosterone is the hormone of honesty 24 Aug
- Most high-skilled Europeans are happy to pay even high taxes, provided the government does a great job in return. 23 Aug
- After a European exit tax, the EU will try to tax its citizens' worldwide income wherever in the world they live. 23 Aug
- Housing affordability is almost the direct inverse of how many new homes are built, so the answer is to build more houses. 18 Aug
- Day trading and technical analysis are proven not to work. 17 Aug
- If nobody creates content any more because everyone just asks an AI, there is nothing left for AI to train on. 8 Aug
- The West's biggest blindspot is repeatedly underestimating China's speed and capabilities. 29 Jul
- Most SaaS subscriptions can now be replaced by software you vibecode for yourself. 26 Jul
- Big AI is cannibalising the app businesses indie hackers used to build, and their revenue and traffic are falling as a result. 26 Jul
- France and Germany will ban Tesla's full self-driving to protect their own car industry. 22 Jul
- The app layer between the customer and the AI model is being removed, because customers can now clone the app themselves rather than pay for it. 21 Jul
- 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