Entrepreneurship
I passed $10M/y in revenue and investment gains with a 94.5% profit margin 𝕏
Y Combinator's batch only has harness or hardware startups, so software is mostly dead 𝕏
Anyone can try making money on the internet with AI, but entrepreneurship is still like pro sports 𝕏
After a decade, I have made nomads.com free for everyone now 𝕏
When I see people build a "software factory" 𝕏
Portugal could have been the Silicon Valley of Europe 𝕏
Omarchy by DHH passes the irrational haters test with flying colours 𝕏
There are more apps than ever but less sales than ever 𝕏
Never stop talking about hotelist.com until everyone finds out 𝕏
I think if you make a sportswear brand that is not plastic but organic materials you will become very rich 𝕏
This food is super basic, healthy, and nutrient-dense but no restaurants serve it 𝕏
My X revenue hit a new record of about $25,000 this month 𝕏
My accountant replied with a 100% AI answer so why not replace him with AI 𝕏
Indie hackers may be the first type of developer to go extinct as AI lowers the cost of execution 𝕏
I've already seen Wispr Flow, Granola and WHOOP reverse engineered and open sourced with fully free versions today 𝕏
BigAI is cannibalizing everything that used to be apps for indiehackers 𝕏
I cancelled all my SaaS subscriptions and vibecoded 100% of them myself 𝕏
AI raises everyone's app quality but customers now vibecode their own clones to skip paying 𝕏
Looking through 80+ seed incubator applications shows everyone's building similar AI slop 𝕏
5% ownership is probably the most common final stake for VC funded startup founders 𝕏
All you need to build a business is free open source software a VPS an AI API and R2/S3 𝕏
I invested in EthSystems to make Ethereum private for banks 𝕏
2 hours after a German signs up to your site 𝕏
Testing my iOS app on web with Claude Code and serve-sim on a headless Mac Mini 𝕏
One more week to escape the underclass 𝕏
LVMH buys luxury brands like Tiffany and Rimowa then 10x prices while cutting costs 10x 𝕏
My first real investment exit with Cursor AI 𝕏
SpaceX valuation seems crazy until you try airline WiFi without Starlink 𝕏
Indie hackers build fancy AI factories but have no money or traffic 𝕏
Everyone can now build apps with AI so now distribution is the real challenge 𝕏
Revolut fixed my banking nightmares after Rabobank froze my card in Bali and made me homeless in the US 𝕏
This is how you do a great startup video 𝕏
EU AI fund is all cronyism and taxpayer money burnt 𝕏
Build on the side until it makes money before quitting your job 𝕏
I don't write code anymore 𝕏
Winning my first big Stripe dispute in a decade with a vibe coded responder 𝕏
My sites get 4 billion requests a year but I only pay $244/mo to host them on my own VPS 𝕏
Why Portuguese businesses don't want more customers or to grow 𝕏
Daniel Radcliffe makes $660,000/mo from investments in perfect fire story 𝕏
OpenClaw's real power user is my girlfriend chatting with it in Telegram 𝕏
Photoai.com is a 40,870 line index.php making 105,000/mo revenue and 80,000/mo profit 𝕏
I ran Claude Code on the server in bypass mode and outran my todo list 𝕏
How to build a bootstrapped startup without funding 𝕏
Steipete on why Europe can't retain talent due to regulations and labor laws 𝕏
Visiting Brazil's biggest indie hacker meetup 𝕏
Europe's 28th regime could create a Delaware for startups 𝕏
Europe's tax system discourages hard work and new businesses 𝕏
I bought over $1M in Google because Sergey returned and they're winning AI 𝕏
Sergey Brin got so bored of his $450M yacht he had to create things again 𝕏
Why Koreans didn't get richer 𝕏
Advice I give 5 minutes after meeting somebody new 𝕏
Chinese brands replacing Western brands in China 𝕏
Western people used in Chinese marketing to represent quality 𝕏
Netherlands changes stock options tax to US system for startups 𝕏
Only the US and China have actual substantial startup activity now 𝕏
EU's AI factory plan requires proposals while Lambda gives you 8x H100s in 5 minutes 𝕏
EU AI factories have 500x less compute than xAI 𝕏
EU AI factories require proposal calls and endless ethical questionnaires instead of simple GPU access 𝕏
levels.vc - my investment fund
Visiting my API provider FAL in San Francisco 𝕏
Visiting OpenAI's office in San Francisco and seeing the city's improvements 𝕏
The only thing young people in Southern Europe can do is drink and smoke 𝕏
Andrej Karpathy visited my weekly coworking
Europe to slash GDPR privacy law in weeks to compete with US and China 𝕏
Leaked EU competitiveness compass draft emphasizes accelerate and cut red tape 𝕏
We need a federal union of Europe to compete with US and China 𝕏
Meeting Bryan Johnson at Din Tai Fung and his don't die health cult 𝕏
Europe is ruled by rich nepotist families and unelected corporatist cronies killing startups 𝕏
How Elon does politics is smartest and my 6 goals for Europe 𝕏
I got 1 billion views on X in the last 12 months 𝕏
Both a16z and YC's request for startups for 2025 just came out 𝕏
OnlyFans just hacked basic human biology 𝕏
My minimal solo founder setup with 100% automation and 99% profit margins 𝕏
The difference between free users and paying users is about 1,000x from my experience 𝕏
Sundar Pichai fumbled Google's AI head start and it'll be studied for decades 𝕏
Rent an empty office space and invent the future 𝕏
Every European with talent moves to the US for startups or Bali and Chiang Mai for indie hacking 𝕏
Surround yourself with builders not talkers 𝕏
Will there be anyone left at OpenAI in the future? 𝕏
Sam Altman will give himself 7% of OpenAI worth $10.5B 𝕏
Nomad List is one of the first network states 𝕏
I hit a new $420,000/mo revenue record thanks to the Lex Fridman podcast 𝕏
Thierry Breton resigns after EU AI Act and DSA criticism 𝕏
Arresting Jack Ma was the dumbest thing China has ever done 𝕏
My recommendations for mario draghi's EU competitiveness report 𝕏
European founder had to move to the US to build a humanoid robot company 𝕏
I still meet programmers who are not using AI to code 𝕏
The web development industrial complex has lied to your face 𝕏
Lex Fridman Podcast 𝕏
I made a deadlift ETF with CEOs that lift weights or fight sports outperforming the S&P 500 by 140% 𝕏
Could air conditioning explain why more top US companies were founded after 1950 than in the EU? 𝕏
Amazon is a showroom for Aliexpress which is a showroom for Taobao 𝕏
Finally met my hero Patrick Collison founder of Stripe 𝕏
Thierry Breton represents 100+ year old European dinosaur companies as EU tech policy director 𝕏
A majority of the worst ranked airports in the world are run by Da Vinci Airports 𝕏
Jack Ma met Jerry Yang at the great wall of China in 1997 𝕏
The rise and fall of Lisbon (2020-2024) 𝕏
I made luggage losers a live ranking of airlines by lost luggage 𝕏
Learn Python for remote AI jobs paying median 80k 𝕏
Guy sells his $50k/mo business for $10m but it's just an acquihire 𝕏
So many VC funded exits are actually massive failures 𝕏
If you wanna get rich fastest make a premium product for Switzerland UAE US and Singapore 𝕏
EU company landscape is run by dinosaurs founded 50 years before US ones 𝕏
My first interaction with a WIRED journalist 10 years ago 𝕏
How I imagined my future million dollar startup office vs my actual million dollar startup office 𝕏
You're just lucky 𝕏
The Bootstrapped Founder Podcast: Indie hacking is dead, now what?
Headspace was started at 38 by former monk Andy Puddicombe who exited at 50 𝕏
If I was 18 today I’d skip uni and go nomad building startups 𝕏
Actionable marketing tactic to get tiktok videos about your app for $100-$300 𝕏
Indie hacking died after its 7-year cycle and became part of the status quo 𝕏
Why national postal services are so bad at delivering packages and Amazon is so good 𝕏
Invested in Brazil after traveling there for a month 𝕏
Good example is GoJEK a super app in Asia where you can do everything from ordering an Uber to massage and investing 𝕏
How to feel like you're getting ahead but actually procrastinate 𝕏
Photo AI is almost 14,000 lines of raw PHP making $61,808 per month 𝕏
Two types of people now 𝕏
If I was just out of school I'd fly to Bangkok to bootstrap my startup for $240 a month 𝕏
We need more makers less coaches 𝕏
Airbnb hosts with strict rules and deposits versus easy hotels 𝕏
The real opportunity in AI for most people is building a front end around it 𝕏
My GitHub contribution graph from 2014 to 2022 𝕏
Sold $100,000 in AI-generated avatars with AvatarAI.me in 10 days 𝕏
Asking successful people about their tech stack is focusing on the wrong thing 𝕏
How I built Interiorai.com from scratch in 5 days 𝕏
Don't make the goddamn app build a functional mobile site instead 𝕏
The best jobs are 100% remote 100% async with no scheduled meetings no whiteboard interviews and no monitoring systems 𝕏
Ordered custom tailored 100% cotton shirts from son of a tailor 𝕏
The endless loop of getting ideas starting projects and telling everyone 𝕏
A crazy thing I realized about people more and less successful than you 𝕏
Pov building an immigration-as-a-service startup 𝕏
Building a product in the dark without letting people use it early on is the best way to make something nobody wants 𝕏
Photopea makes almost $1M/y built by Ukrainian indie maker with vanilla JS 𝕏
Remote OK is a single PHP file generating $101,101 this month 𝕏
The next frontier after remote work is async
Why I'm unreachable and maybe you should be too
List of all my projects ever
Why coliving economics still don't make sense
This is the most exciting time in history to start a company online 𝕏
Normalization of non-deviance
Copywriting for entrepreneurs: explain your product how you'd explain it to a friend
Entrepreneurs are the heroes, not the villains
Overengineering everything is the disease of modern day developers 𝕏
The floor is profit 𝕏
I'm building a new mini startup this week after finding an idea road tripping in Portugal 𝕏
Quibi burned 2 billion dollars of VC funding in 6 months 𝕏
2020 sucked so I'm giving away another MacBook Pro 16" to cheer people up 𝕏
This week I built a startup idea generator with GPT-3 𝕏
Perfection paralysis stops you from getting things done 𝕏
The odds of getting a remote job are less than 1% (because everyone wants one)
In the future writing code will be like using a pro dslr and no code like a smartphone camera 𝕏
Instead of hiring people, do things yourself to stay relevant
The only real validation is people paying for your product
Nomad List 5 launches exactly 5 years after the first version on Product Hunt 𝕏
Nomad List turns 5
The 'work hard enough to succeed' myth is used by the ownership class to exploit the middle class 𝕏
Overnight success is the biggest myth: 10 years and 98% failed projects to make $100k/mo 𝕏
Odds of launching something successfully 𝕏
Barriers of entry to building a startup have never been so low 𝕏
The internet complains about facebook selling data but wants indie apps for free 𝕏
EU is making it impossible for startups to operate 𝕏
Sitting in traffic each morning to stare at a screen for 40 years is capitalism's greatest con 𝕏
People forget how much advantage you have in 2018 as an indie business 𝕏
Building a startup: what people think vs reality 𝕏
Don't quit your job until side project revenue surpasses it for 6 months 𝕏
My book MAKE on bootstrapping startups is now live on Product Hunt 𝕏
I'm Product Hunt's Maker of the Year again!
Turning side projects into profitable startups
Indie Hackers Podcast: Confronting fears and taking a leap
What I learnt from 100 days of shipping
Money should buy freedom from employment not Bentley cars and Rolex watches 𝕏
Nomad List 3.0 is now live on Product Hunt 𝕏
The narrative of 20 year old founders is false most are over 36 𝕏
RemoteOK.io is a single PHP file generating $2,342.04 a day 𝕏
What if I sold a 10-day shipping program to corporates for $200,000 and gave half to charity 𝕏
Avoid accelerators incubators coaches bootcamps instead ship 𝕏
Nomad List, Remote OK and MAKE generated $34,733 in revenue last month with $3,950 in expenses 𝕏
VC startups vs bootstrapped startups 𝕏
A new trend of fast food type web apps that are tiny single feature tools with no sign up and quick charging 𝕏
What we can learn from Stormzy about transparency
I battled a 20-ppl million-dollar VC-funded team building the same product for 2 years 𝕏
How long it takes to complete a task 𝕏
Choosing entrepreneurship over a corporate career
What I would do if I was 18 now
The myth that buying a house is a good idea: homes underperform investing in stock market indices over 10 - 25 years 𝕏
WordPress's success shows it doesn't matter how great the code is, it's about the user experience first and foremost 𝕏
Tobias van Schneider interviewed me about everything
Why doesn't Twitter just asks its users to pay?
Stop being everyone's friend
Do the economics of remote work retreats make any sense?
How I built Remote | OK and launched it to #1 on Product Hunt
Love, Anxiety and Startups: My Year in 50 Tweets
If you're always working you're not crushing it you're just highly inefficient 𝕏
How I hacked Slack into a community platform with Typeform
How to successfully build a community around your startup
The ideal place to start a startup is not necessarily in Silicon Valley
What I learnt from launching products is that the real work starts when everyone has stopped talking about you 𝕏
How I built Nomad Jobs, a remote job board for 100% distributed startups
How I got my startup to #1 on both Product Hunt and Hacker News by accident
Manila
You won't reach success by socializing networking attending events and meeting ppl for coffee 𝕏
My 3rd startup: Tubelytics, the real-time dashboard for YouTube publishers
How Go Fucking Do It raised $30,000+ in pledges in less than a month
On self-funding startups
Run through ideas quickly
If you can't express yourself by email, you're not worthy of anyone's time
What I learnt from bootstrapping my startup from Thailand in six months
Cash means controlling your own destiny
You constantly need to be painting or it looks like total crap
Stripe launches beta in the Netherlands
"There simply are no other fields in which I can spend $100 tomorrow and set up a new business..."
"Speaking as a graduate of one, top schools teach you credentialing and ladder climbing..."
What if money was no object in your life?
In the 21st century, Maria Montessori shows to be more relevant than ever