Pieter Levels

+1 on indiehackers being a fantastic resource for strategies and motivation once you filter out the multi-person companies. I'd also add in http://levels.io - Pieter Levels is a good steward for the 'maker' movement also https://twitter.com/levelsio

Make a blog post, i'm interested... Similar story by https://levels.io/ here https://levels.io/reset-your-life/ ( i actually loved the post) PS. He's a fellow HN'er also :)

yeah - no problem. This isn't quite for Digital Nomads really. Honestly, I think digital nomads already have a community... I work from home. I don't work from other countries really. So my vision is to create a community of Remote workers. http://levels.io has done a great job of creating a community for Digital Nomads. RemoteTogether is more for the people who work from home and spend upwards of 10 hours at home working.

Re political situation in Thailand: Media is massively exaggerating. I've been here through the protests in BKK & Chiang Mai, through the curfew and coup. It has nothing to do with us. As long as you don't stand in the middle of a stone throwing competition - which you shouldn't anywhere in the world - you're safe. It's very easy to avoid these things. In daily life you won't see anything that is affected by the situation - except maybe emptier hotels. Keep an eye on the visa situation. Back to back visa runs over land are/will be a bit trickier from now on. Plane tickets of local low cost carriers are ridiculously cheap and plenty and will solve this issue every 30 days (I'm writing this out of Vientiane, Laos for this very reason. Visa run by plane + extended weekend to get to know Vientiane. They have a coworking space here as well: https://www.facebook.com/tohlao). You can also apply for a proper tourist visa in your home country and in countries around Thailand. This gives you piece of mind for 60-90 days. For a long term commitment you could consider an educational visa for one year. Language schools and even muay thai schools can provide you with them. If you attend them is a whole different story (some schools are entirely built around this concept.). Both - Chiang Mai and Bangkok are amazing places to live and bootstrap. When you come to BKK, make sure to check out http://hubbathailand.com/ - best coworking space I've ever come across. Peter from https://levels.io/…

I wonder what Pieter Levels uses, since all of his apps are PHP based and he has a number of AI/ML offerings these days. https://levels.io/

https://levels.io is famously very successful with this approach

Before calling someone's genuine thoughts "absurd", I'd suggest exploring https://readmake.com book, which goes into much more detail on these thoughts. It was written by one such highly successful indie dev, and I think it's worth giving these ideas a shot. The author also describes many of them on his personal blog: https://levels.io/contact/ Another good resource is "It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work", where the authors describe how they've built a highly profitable bootstrapped business, and their philosophy around that, which shares many of these thoughts.

Agreed, I landed on a stack that just works and I've been rinsing and repeating ever since. Laravel, InertiaJS, Tailwind, DigitalOcean, Ploi. I've shipped several projects, have a starter template that I've used to build entire very complex financial systems to simple couple page apps. Made my millions and furthered my career. Not to mention how automated I have stuff setup to handle dependency and package upgrades [1], everything logged to appropriate slack channels [2]. My main income nowadays is just maintenance and that is almost no work. Love php [3]. [1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33613037 [2] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22345150#22345721 [3] - https://levels.io/how-i-build-my-minimum-viable-products/

I got into one bagging a few months ago after looking at Pieter Levels blog post about it https://levels.io/carry-on-world-travel/ and have been operating from one since the 15th of April. Bought a minaal 3.0 Cary On after going through the r/onebag community. Also bought some more equipment like an anker power core. Have to do a wash cycle weekly. A down jacket hangs off the bag. A laptop, kindle and my phone are the only electronics I have. Works very well but in Europe you have to pay for carry on on a lot of airlines and otherwise you can only have something that fits under the seat in front of you. The minimalism makes life easier. Only one pair of shoes & a pair of flip flops. Depend on the hostel / airbnb to provide a towel. Like Vitalik I have a weeks worth of clothes in the bag and one me.

Depends on what you define as SaaS... Looks like a lot of "websites" in the thread below, so I'd throw Pieter Levels in there: https://levels.io/

RemoteOk developed by Pieter Levels: https://remoteok.io His blog https://levels.io is interesting in itself.

With all my love to Mr. Levels[1], I'm personally glad the author decided to approach this as their little "Tiny projects" rather than "Follow me as I build six startups in six months". I feel it nicely sets expectations to what I can get out of checking out each project and thinking "well, it's just a tiny project after all, why can't I have made something like this ever month too?". The 12 startups idea was also inspiring to me but I disliked how the term so frequently leads people to (IMO) somewhat pointless analysis of "Is this even a real startup?" around each individual project. [1]https://levels.io/12-startups-12-months/

You may have heard of Pieter Levels[0], the creator of Nomad List, RemoteOK and Hoodmaps. I'm assuming you are planning to learn more about how to make a startup. There are two core resources that I find very useful from his writings. - He documented[1] how he build Hoodmaps[2] while streaming. He got a functional app built as soon as he could and built upon user feedback. You learn how he bootstrapped his way up and you realize how to do that. - He wrote a book on how to bootstrap. That book[3] was made online while collaborating with others. It was sort of a community effort. I think it is very well written. [0] https://levels.io/ [1] https://levels.io/hoodmaps/ [2] https://hoodmaps.com/ [3] https://makebook.io/

Peter Levels https://levels.io/ offered early access to his currently-writing book ... and published it officially 2.5 years later. I could be wrong about the exact timeline but you get the point.

>This is a great example of how a company was undone [...] , if Twitter went along with their founders vision it could have been much bigger over time For anyone wondering why parent uses "undone", "could have been much bigger", at a time that Twitter is a household name, the President tweets, people hold public conversations over Twitter, and list Twitter handles instead of their emails.[1] It's because Twitter is "only" an $11.9 billion company by market cap, whereas Facebook is at $492B or 44 times bigger. I can't think of any other metric by which Twitter isn't a resounding success story. [1] https://levels.io/hoodmaps/ - Very bottom "I don't use email so tweet me your questions."

This is a great place to start: https://levels.io/12-startups-12-months/

It's funny to ask for advice from others who barely know your passions and capability, but it will give it a few random shots: - follow your passion, not the money. when you work on your startup, do you truly enjoy at least some part of it, or just following the hype or hoping to become millionaires? - are you well off where money is not an issue? if money is an issue, get a job; you can choose to work with well-off Malaysian startup like GrabTaxi. - rather than keep thinking about money making startup, just work on small projects which you found interesting. e.g. https://levels.io/12-startups-12-months/

@levelsio built 12 startups in 12 months as a one-man show AFAIK. Here is his website: https://levels.io

I think you're thinking of https://levels.io/

Good software rarely makes money by itself - you'll need to have a focus on validating your market, acquiring new users and finding features people would be willing to pay for. levelsio is a great example of this. The guy is actually graduated with a Master degree in "Business Administration, Entrepreneurship & New Business Venturing" [1]. His main focus is on business development [2][3][4]. Software development is just something he needs to do in order to grow his business ideas. Nomad List is great not only because levelsio created a nice product, but also because he successfully built a community and did great marketing to promote the "digital nomad" way of life. So question to yourself: Why do you want to do this for? Creating a business or creating a software? If your main motivation is to create a business, then design your software development cycle to spend plenty of time focusing on the business needs. [1] https://www.linkedin.com/in/levelsio [2] Greatly handles communication - https://twitter.com/levelsio [3] His blog posts are designed around visibility, product placement and referral links - https://levels.io/how-i-build-my-minimum-viable-products/ [4] He uses whatever technology is the quickest / most convenient for his business ideas (nomadlist started as a Google spreadsheet, then as a PHP website).

But look at people like Pieter Levels https://levels.io/how-i-build-my-minimum-viable-products/ He uses PHP because he knew it and could build things quick with it (in a single file in his case).

https://levels.io/remote-ok/ 2015 > It’d analyze the feed, see which jobs were remote, then normalize the data and then push it into a simple SQLite database (yes, I’m not using JSON text files as a database anymore, thank you :P). https://levels.io/how-i-build-my-minimum-viable-products/ 2014 > This includes all data used by the app. I actually shy away from using real database systems in the 12 startups. Instead I use JSON text files. I was hoping to find data on Pieter's current projects using Sqlite and their loads. (For all I know, RemoteOK still does, but I can't find more recent posts about it).

According to this page[0], this is a project by Pieter Levels, which I immediately assumed because of the design. That said, I don't think this project is updated very much, or has _any_ value because it doesn't disclose how the data is acquired, and how the rankings are distributed. Additionally, there is no separate page for the airlines themselves, and instead they are direct links to the airline website. In this context, the page might be useful for novelty purposes to learn about different airline names, but nothing more. [0]: https://levels.io/projects/

You've probably already seen, levelsio's tweet: https://twitter.com/levelsio/status/1457315274466594817 I also like one of his old posts: https://levels.io/12-startups-12-months/ Yeah, building something people want (and are willing to pay) is pretty hard, and trying to sell early/often is a good way to reduce your market risk. I'm more on the "build something I want", and as soon as I have something "I like", iterate on the communication/go-to-market, more than the product. I think this is more aligned with founders like Brian Chesky that launched (and failed) multiple times, but kept on going because they really believed in their idea (though I'm still on the failing part). There are many Ask HN posts about launching which you might find useful: https://payperrun.com/%3E/search?displayParams= {%22q%22:%22Ask%20HN:%20how%20to%20launch?%22,%22ds%22:%22askhn%22}

Wait - are looking for 100% of the work to be done, but at a fraction of the cost? i.e. instead of everyone pretending to work 8 hours per day 5 times per week they are just going to do work when there is work to do? This is called "asynchronous work" or "async work"[1]. Do work when it makes sense for you, but get it all done. Async workers should not be discounted. [1] https://levels.io/async/]

An “indie hacker” is a solo entrepreneur who (may be a digital nomad and) builds small revenue generating projects. Typically building them in series and letting them grow passively while working on a new one. Often active on twitter sharing work in progress and success/failure stories. A key theme for many is building lifestyle businesses that collectively provide “passive income” and financial independence. But unlike “FIRE” it’s “financial independence, casually work while enjoying life” A common and well known person is Pieter Levels: https://levels.io/projects/

I think he started much earlier - his blog mentions 2014: https://levels.io/product-hunt-hacker-news-number-one I agree though, that sometimes you need to "just do it" using the simplest tools out there.

Most job boards started out by scraping other job boards. I know, very ouroboros, but once they got enough traction, then they had natural demand where people submitted new jobs. For example, Pieter Levels on building RemoteOK: https://levels.io/remote-ok/ He aggregated a bunch of other job boards first, then once the site got traction, people submitted directly to RemoteOK.

Sorry, it's not open sourced (at least yet), but I was using React and Mapbox to implement it. You can see an example in pure javascript here: https://docs.mapbox.com/mapbox-gl-js/example/cluster/ And how to build a similar app here: https://levels.io/hoodmaps/

I feel this for sure. I was in the "grinder" for a while, and this year I'm making my move into becoming an indie hacker myself. If you're looking for a little inspiration, here are a couple links: - Pieter Levels' announcement post on 12 startups in 12 months: https://levels.io/12-startups-12-months/ - My own blog, where I'm documenting my own journey in building a startup in a month: https://startupinamonth.net/ I hope you break out soon!