A few years ago I sold all my stuff to explore the world, creating 12 startups in 12 months and building $1M+/y companies as an indie maker such as Nomad List and Remote OK. I'm also a big pusher of remote work and async and analyze the effects it has on society. Follow me on Twitter or see my list of posts. My first book MAKE is out now. Contact me
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2022
18 Sep
Stuff I made
This House Does Not Exist
2022
14 Jul
Podcast
Sam Parr + Shaan Puri asked me about bootstrapping, open startups and lifestyle inflation (My First Million Podcast)
2022
16 May
Podcast
Thinking and doing for yourself (Life Done Differently Podcast)
2022
10 May
Podcast
Relocation of remote workers (Building Remotely Podcast)
2022
26 Jan
Interview
Money, happiness and productivity as a solo founder (Indiehackers Podcast)
2022
20 Jan
Podcast
Bootstrapping, moving to Portugal and setting up Rebase (Wannabe Entrepreneur Podcast)
2021
25 Mar
Society
Why I'm unreachable and maybe you should be too
2021
25 Mar
Remote working
The next frontier after remote work is async
2021
19 Mar
General
List of all my projects ever
2021
08 Mar
Coworking spaces
Why coliving economics still don't make sense
2021
14 Feb
Stuff I made
Inflation Chart: the stock market adjusted for the US-dollar money supply
2021
10 Jan
General
I did a live 4+ hour AMA on Twitch w/ @roxkstar74
2020
20 Dec
Quotes
No one should ever work
2020
10 Dec
General
Normalization of non-deviance
2020
05 Dec
Entrepreneurship
Copywriting for entrepreneurs: explain your product how you'd explain it to a friend
2020
30 Nov
Quotes
Entrepreneurs are the heroes, not the villains
2020
12 Nov
Remote working
The future of remote work: how the greatest human migration in history will happen in the next ten years
2020
05 Nov
Travel
Will millions of remote workers become location independent in 2021?
2020
11 Apr
Tech
5 years in startups with Abadesi
2020
11 Jan
General
Twitter giveaways can be hacked to win every time
2019
16 Oct
Stuff I made
Lorn - The Slow Blade ✕ Hong Kong
2019
28 Sep
Health
Most decaf coffee is made from paint stripper
2019
12 Sep
General
The odds of getting a remote job are less than 1% (because everyone wants one)
2019
08 Sep
General
In the future writing actual code will be like using a pro DSLR camera, and no code will be like using a smartphone camera
2019
29 Aug
General
Instead of hiring people, do things yourself to stay relevant
2019
28 Aug
Quotes
Nobody cares about you after you're dead and the universe destroys itself
2019
28 Aug
Entrepreneurship
The only real validation is people paying for your product
2019
05 Aug
Bali
Monitoring Bali's undersea internet cable
2019
29 Jul
Entrepreneurship
Nomad List turns 5
2018
29 Jan
Entrepreneurship
I'm Product Hunt's Maker of the Year again!
2018
28 Jan
Leisure
Why Korean Jimjilbangs and Japanese Onsens are great
2018
24 Jan
Presentation
Turning side projects into profitable startups
2018
03 Jan
Creativity
What I learnt from 100 days of shipping
2017
28 Dec
Remote working
As decentralized as cryptocurrency is: so will be the people working on it
2017
22 Oct
Creativity
How to 3d scan any object with just your phone's camera
2017
09 Aug
Society
In a world of outrage, mute words
2017
03 Aug
Minimalism
How to pack for world travel with just a carry-on bag
2017
26 Jul
Entrepreneurship
Building a startup in public: from first line of code to frontpage of Reddit
2017
24 Jul
Coworking spaces
Facebook and Google are building their own cities: the inevitable future of private tech worker towns
2017
21 Jul
Entrepreneurship
The TL;DR MBA
2017
12 Jul
General
We did it! Namecheap has introduced 2FA
2017
08 Jun
Future
It's about time for a digital work permit for remote workers
2017
23 May
Automation
Using Uptime Robot to build unit tests for the web
2017
08 May
Tech
Namecheap still doesn't support 2FA in 2017 (update: they do now!)
2017
03 May
Asia
Taipei is boring, and maybe that's not such a bad thing
2017
16 Apr
Creativity
What we can learn from Stormzy about transparency
2017
17 Feb
Hacker News
The ICANN mafia has taken my site hostage for 2 days now
2017
10 Feb
Coworking spaces
Most coworking spaces don't make money; here's how they can adapt to survive the future
2017
11 Jan
Future
A society of total automation in which the need to work is replaced with a nomadic life of creative play
2017
07 Jan
Nomad List
Nomad List Founder
2016
12 Dec
Tutorials
Make your own Olark feedback form without Olark
2016
29 Oct
Travel
How to fix flying
2016
19 Oct
Tutorials
Robots make mistakes too: How to log your server with push notifications straight to your phone
2016
17 Oct
Stuff I made
Hong Kong Express - 上海 (Shanghai)
2016
17 Oct
Entrepreneurship
Choosing entrepreneurship over a corporate career
2016
13 Oct
Quotes
"I can't buy happiness anymore. I've bought everything that I ever wanted. There's not really anything I want anymore."
2016
11 Oct
Learning 3d
From web dev to VR: How to get started with VR development
2016
05 Oct
Future
What I would do if I was 18 now
2016
22 Sep
Entrepreneurship
Bootstrapping Side Projects into Profitable Startups
2016
27 Aug
Society
Kids
2016
13 Aug
Society
How I cured my anxiety (mostly)
2016
26 Jul
Tutorials
We have an epidemic of bad posture
2016
17 Jul
Tutorials
Fixing "Inf and NaN cannot be JSON encoded" in PHP the easy way
2016
26 Jun
Creativity
My third time in a float tank and practicing visualizing the future
2016
15 Jun
Automation
How to add shareable pictures to your website with some PhantomJS magic
2016
29 May
Society
My chatbot gets catcalled
2016
19 May
Learning 3d
From web dev to 3d: Learning 3d modeling in a month
2016
09 Mar
Society
My second time in a sensory deprivation chamber
2016
04 Mar
Learning 3d
Day 30 of Learning 3d 🎮 Cloning objects 👾👾👾
2016
02 Mar
Learning 3d
Day 29 of Learning 3d 🎮 Glass, reflectives, HD, coloring and more details
2016
29 Feb
Learning 3d
Day 27 of Learning 3d 🎮 Details, details, DETAILS!
2016
25 Feb
Learning 3d
Day 23 of Learning 3d 🎮 Filling up the street and adding shadows
2016
24 Feb
Learning 3d
Day 22 of Learning 3d 🎮 Added rain, blinking lights, sound, textured menu sign and a VR web app
2016
23 Feb
Learning 3d
Day 21 of Learning 3d 🎮 High res textures, physical rendering and ambient occlusion
2016
22 Feb
Learning 3d
Day 20 of Learning 3d 🎮 Objects and camera perspectives 🙆
2016
19 Feb
Future
My first time floating in a sensory deprivation tank ☺️
2016
12 Feb
Learning 3d
Day 10 of Learning 3d 🎮 Making complex objects by combining shapes 🙆
2016
06 Feb
Learning 3d
Day 4 of Learning 3d: @shoinwolfe visits the actual street I'm modeling 🏮😎🏮
2016
03 Feb
Learning 3d
Day 1 of Learning 3d 🎮 I learnt how to make shapes, move, rotate and scale them + how to texturize, and add colored lights 💆
2016
02 Feb
Creativity
I'm Learning 3d 🎮
2016
27 Jan
Automation
The things I have to do to read an email sent to me by my government
2016
12 Jan
Tutorials
How to use your iPhone as a better Apple TV alternative (with VPN)
2015
23 Dec
Tech
Here's a crazy idea: automatically pause recurring subscription of users when you detect they aren't actually using your app
2015
17 Dec
Society
Stop calling night owls lazy, we're not
2015
16 Dec
Quotes
We are the heroes of our own stories
2015
25 Oct
Future
There will be 1 billion digital nomads by 2035
2015
21 Oct
Press
Tobias van Schneider interviewed me about everything
2015
18 Oct
Tech
Why doesn't Twitter just asks its users to pay?
2015
17 Oct
Future
Punk died the moment we learnt that the world WAS in fact getting better, not worse
2015
15 Oct
Entrepreneurship
Stop being everyone's friend
2015
14 Oct
Future
Vaporwave is the only music that fits the feeling futuristic Asian mega cities give me
2015
09 Sep
Society
We live in a world built by dead people
2015
01 Sep
Future
Why global roaming data solutions don't make any sense
2015
26 Aug
Tech
How to export your Slack's entire archive as HTML message logs
2015
24 Aug
Tutorials
How to play GTA V on your MacBook (and any other PC game)
2015
14 May
Asia
I uploaded 4 terabyte over Korea's 4G, and paid $48
2015
08 May
Nomad List
How I sped up Nomad List by 31% with SPDY, CloudFront and PageSpeed
2015
04 May
Tech
My weird code commenting style based on HTML tags
2015
01 May
Society
Now is probably the time to make HTTPS the default on all your sites and apps
2015
17 Apr
Entrepreneurship
Do the economics of remote work retreats make any sense?