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Everything in Europe comes from Germany and everything in Germany comes from China 𝕏
Chinese EVs are beating German cars with better software and innovation 𝕏
Arriving in Chongqing and China's LED lit skyline versus Europe saving energy 𝕏
Europe's end game might be to become like Japan a cheap tourist destination 𝕏
Macron warns EU has only 2 or 3 years before total US and China dominance 𝕏
I remade a chart of the best and worst value cities based on Nomads.com data 𝕏
I learnt that blueberries are pesticide bombs and thicker fruit is better 𝕏
Your priority as a man is to avoid the padel body at all costs 𝕏
My X revenue hit a new record of about $25,000 this month 𝕏
One of the best coffee machines in the world is the Moccamaster but it's fully plastic 𝕏
Someone made a Moccamaster clone but without plastic 𝕏
We flew into Beijing from Japan, then went to Chengdu, Chongqing, Shanghai and Hangzhou 𝕏
DHH shared a cool tip to hook Claude Code up to your Ubiquiti router and improve your WiFi 𝕏
I'm not a paid CCP shill but China is having its moment for tourists now 𝕏
China is one of the highest value countries to travel to now 𝕏
The Dead Internet Theory could become real if AI replaces all human content creation 𝕏
I'm deleting Claude
This prompt finally stopped Claude from getting more and more unintelligible every day 𝕏
It's crazy to think the entire West is literally leaning on one single guy to do things at the same level China does 𝕏
Meta is allegedly building its own search engine so its AI queries don't train Google's models 𝕏
Meta is doing heavy scraping on my sites including url2og possibly for image video or world models 𝕏
Raising a rich kid is kinda like child abuse because it messes up their reward function 𝕏
Claude's AI output is so verbose and jargon dense that I have to look up every word 𝕏
My accountant replied with a 100% AI answer so why not replace him with AI 𝕏
I vibecoded a full video editor into Photo AI that generates and edits videos with your trained models 𝕏
You should change your flight from Tokyo to Shanghai to visit actual China 𝕏
Indie hackers may be the first type of developer to go extinct as AI lowers the cost of execution 𝕏
The West's biggest blindspot is repeatedly underestimating China's speed and capabilities 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
Most guys over 35 now have the padel body and you need to fight it 𝕏
The European union makes more money from fining us tech companies than taxing Europe's own public tech companies 𝕏
Things I learnt after buying a house and going through lots of shitty products 𝕏
The French and Germans will ban Tesla FSD to protect their car industry 𝕏
AI raises everyone's app quality but customers now vibecode their own clones to skip paying 𝕏
I increasingly have no idea about anything anymore because time is changing too fast with AI 𝕏
Looking through 80+ seed incubator applications shows everyone's building similar AI slop 𝕏
Superintelligence has passed us and we're all running after the carrot 𝕏
Yesterday at a party we said maybe software is dead and everyone pretty much agreed 𝕏
5% ownership is probably the most common final stake for VC funded startup founders 𝕏
Good guy Google removes 151 to 200 reviews from kebap haus due to defamation complaints 𝕏
It's hard to imagine how much richer US is getting 𝕏
How to buy S&P500, tech, bonds and commodities ETFs on IBKR as US or non-US citizen 𝕏
How to code with Kimi K3 better than Fable and no restrictions 𝕏
Kimi K3 from China hammers through my Windows XP Simulator todo list while Claude wastes 2 weeks on safety guardrails 𝕏
macOS 27 in the browser created by Kimi K3 𝕏
Google Maps in Germany now shows defamation complaint amounts, so here's a calculator to find a place's real rating
US restricts AI models so China builds better ones and everyone switches 𝕏
Every single time they have AC but you can't have AC 𝕏
All you need to build a business is free open source software a VPS an AI API and R2/S3 𝕏
How they want you to live tiny windows no AC vegan food nonstop work and medication 𝕏
How you should live with sunlight AC whole foods and exercise 𝕏
I invested in EthSystems to make Ethereum private for banks 𝕏
Places the most attractive rich and educated nomads visit vs the least 𝕏
2 hours after a German signs up to your site 𝕏
Open letter to the Portuguese government to approve Tesla FSD 𝕏
EU chat control has passed allowing warrantless scanning of messages 𝕏
Testing my iOS app on web with Claude Code and serve-sim on a headless Mac Mini 𝕏
The Everything Chart
EU keeps resubmitting Chat Control after 5 rejections proving it's undemocratic 𝕏
One more week to escape the underclass 𝕏
A working Atari ST inside a blog post with full internet
Degrowth is likely just masked foreign sabotage 𝕏
Europe fights for 6 years whether to install AC or not while China produces an AC every 6 seconds 𝕏
Is the stock market in a bubble right now?
Korea's bus stops have AC to keep you cool in the heat 𝕏
Foreign funding is behind the degrowth movement in Europe 𝕏
Portugal's EU customs blocks every package from outside making modern products impossible to order 𝕏
Degrowth killed 250,000 people by avoiding ACs in Europe 𝕏
Bitcoin's 4-year cycles 𝕏
I've been coding almost solely on my VPS with Claude Code for almost a year now 𝕏
Congratulations Europe you killed 1,000 people with your degrowth bs 𝕏
Degrowthers are literally opposed to life 𝕏
An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time 𝕏
Bus driver in France crashes after fainting from heat with no AC 𝕏
Far left French newspaper against air conditioning has roof covered in AC units 𝕏
How did AC become the political battleground of choice in Europe 𝕏
Using Claude Code to psychoanalyze 5 years of chat logs 𝕏
Having an AC in Europe now classifies you as far right 𝕏
Europeans will ignore anti-AC rules and buy air conditioners in 2027 𝕏
The craziest thing about Quake is how many modern FPS games originate from it 𝕏
Europe had 248,875 heat-related deaths vs 9,436 in the US from 2020 to 2025 𝕏
LVMH buys luxury brands like Tiffany and Rimowa then 10x prices while cutting costs 10x 𝕏
In San Francisco everyone is saying software is commoditized by AI so smart people are moving to hardware 𝕏
Vibe Jam 2026 winners and how the games are getting close to real production quality 𝕏
America still has post offices unlike most of Europe 𝕏
My first real investment exit with Cursor AI 𝕏
SpaceX valuation seems crazy until you try airline WiFi without Starlink 𝕏
Europe's GDP per capita will stagnate while the US grows to twice as rich by 2030 𝕏
Europe has gotten very poor fast while America has only gotten richer 𝕏
US hotels give way more value than Europe now with better AC and amenities 𝕏
I ported Return to Castle Wolfenstein to the web with multiplayer in an hour using AI 𝕏
I revived a 28 year old Quake 2 map with AI into web-based multiplayer 𝕏
I built a web-based virtual null modem to play Quake I in MS-DOS in multiplayer online 𝕏
My drum & bass double drop edit: Heavy Sound System x Shadow People
Indie hackers build fancy AI factories but have no money or traffic 𝕏
I built a web-based dot matrix printer that prints from Windows 3.11 𝕏
Everyone can now build apps with AI so now distribution is the real challenge 𝕏
Rimowa suitcase broke after Copenhagen to Lisbon flight and why avoid luxury brands 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
European Commission lies and calls truth a narrative 𝕏
Luxury brands like Rimowa and LVMH are mostly a scam 𝕏
Luxury hotels are mathematically bad value 𝕏
I cook friends a 400g steak with beef tallow and take them lifting to cure tiredness depression or lethargy 𝕏
EU AI fund is all cronyism and taxpayer money burnt 𝕏
Western Europe is so fucking tiring 𝕏
Build on the side until it makes money before quitting your job 𝕏
Hotel in the Netherlands sets AC minimum at 23°C and locks windows for security 𝕏
My friend's Lisbon office got burglarized and Portuguese police refused to recover his Airtagged Apple display 𝕏
Leiden might be the best Dutch city to visit instead of tourist Amsterdam 𝕏
I don't write code anymore 𝕏
My daily laptop and iPhone setup for sites on a VPS with Claude Code 𝕏
My latest Termius and tmux setup for every site 𝕏
Luxury products are really just meant for poor people to fake they're rich 𝕏
Barcelona has drug dens and violent crime in El Raval that Google Maps won't show 𝕏
Hoodmaps.com now has crime data 𝕏
Ignoring mind viruses leads to a slippery slope of meat allergies from engineered ticks 𝕏
Cloudflare is now the cheapest email provider at $354/mo 𝕏
Most EV chargers in Portugal are out of service thanks to EU subsidies 𝕏
I installed Cloudflare Tunnel to secure my VPS even further and block all inbound traffic on Hetzner 𝕏
How keeping CO2 low with a bathroom fan gave me 100% sleep score 𝕏
My gf banned from reviewing places on Google Maps in Europe after one 1-star review 𝕏
Airthings is the best air sensor after trying fakes and dodgy ones 𝕏
I still haven't solved the CO2 bedroom challenge 𝕏
Winning my first big Stripe dispute in a decade with a vibe coded responder 𝕏
Claude was dumbified on March 4 exactly when we noticed 𝕏
I open sourced my first Chrome extension SuperLevels 𝕏
My sites get 4 billion requests a year but I only pay $244/mo to host them on my own VPS 𝕏
Europeans are all captivated by the mind virus 𝕏
Made an auto-dispute response system for Interior AI to see how easy it'd be 𝕏
Tech insiders avoid touchscreens and smart homes because they know the downsides 𝕏
Brazil's CPF catch-22 makes booking hotels impossible for tourists 𝕏
April fool's pizzas in US are real pizzas in Brazil 𝕏
I made a free open source xdr boost app for macOS using claude code in 5 minutes 𝕏
Why Portuguese businesses don't want more customers or to grow 𝕏
Give us more data to make sure it's you after we've been breached 𝕏
Argentinean meat is one of the worst in the world now 𝕏
ChatControl is back with a vengeance 𝕏
Daniel Radcliffe makes $660,000/mo from investments in perfect fire story 𝕏
The irony that traveling on less than $1,000 a month is more fun than luxury travel 𝕏
Quake III server now runs in the browser 7 years later 𝕏
European governments reject net positive Italian brazilians but welcome culture destroying immigrants 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
Built my own gaussian splat viewer for Interior AI 𝕏
How to build a bootstrapped startup without funding 𝕏
1983 Wall Street Raiders game reverse engineered from 115,000 lines of BASIC 𝕏
Steipete on why Europe can't retain talent due to regulations and labor laws 𝕏
Added dark mode to my http proxy for reading on kindle 𝕏
Things in your house slowly poisoning you and what to change them to 𝕏
Visiting Brazil's biggest indie hacker meetup 𝕏
My dad the cardiologist got free family holidays from Pfizer to prescribe their drugs 𝕏
My friend on SSRIs tried to convince me I have generational trauma 𝕏
EU countries are now trying to censor speech on social media nationally after DSA failed 𝕏
You absolutely cannot trust Germans with nukes 𝕏
I'm so done with real estate agents 𝕏
Europe's 28th regime could create a Delaware for startups 𝕏
Europe's tax system discourages hard work and new businesses 𝕏
The era of fake e-girl influencers has started 𝕏
Moved all my sites LLM APIs now to xAI 𝕏
Women are most attracted to men who believe in astrology 𝕏
Freezing bread from the local bakery solves sellouts and lowers blood sugar spikes 𝕏
Luxury is absolutely done in the West but still exists in Asia and the Gulf states 𝕏
Map of South America as the United States of Amazonia 𝕏
I glued an AirTag to a yogurt box to track if recycling is real 𝕏
The oceans are full of plastic exactly because you recycle 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
Qatar Airways business class gets you special arrival reception at Doha 𝕏
Why Koreans didn't get richer 𝕏
I got 100+ mbps plane internet on Qatar Airways with Starlink 𝕏
Amap is my favorite navigation app in China 𝕏Chinese EVs are beating German cars with better software and innovation 𝕏
The EU is in control of what you see online thanks to the Digital Services Act 𝕏
NIO is another very popular EV brand in China 𝕏
Advice I give 5 minutes after meeting somebody new 𝕏
The European Commission is the cancer rotting the EU from within 𝕏
China can be very cheap with $300 Chongqing hotel suites and $20 rooms 𝕏
Chinese tourism is 95% domestic making China feel like the only foreigner there 𝕏
Restaurants in China show their menus as photos on the wall 𝕏
Never fly directly into Lisbon from outside Europe to skip immigration 𝕏
Chongqing looks gray and derelict without its night lights and needs better maintenance 𝕏
Chinese high speed trains are now faster than the Japanese Shinkansen 𝕏Arriving in Chongqing and China's LED lit skyline versus Europe saving energy 𝕏
I took the high speed train in China today 𝕏
Western double standards on China versus Japan city lights 𝕏
China's train security is stricter than TSA 𝕏
Getting the China flu after arriving and why to wear an N95 on planes 𝕏
Never bring a knife to China because DHL and customs make shipping impossible 𝕏
I got the China cough after 4 days in China 𝕏
Rich BigTech wives destabilizing society from 2016 to 2023 via giant NGO donations 𝕏
Chinese brands replacing Western brands in China 𝕏
Rentable powerbanks in China scan with Alipay but would get stolen in US or Europe 𝕏
Western people used in Chinese marketing to represent quality 𝕏
We've literally just lost power in Europe 𝕏
Beijing uses robot arms at toll booths 𝕏
China airport confiscated our power banks without CCC certification 𝕏
The Russian connection in China doesn't stop 𝕏
Woke up in Beijing's Summer Palace built in 1750 as a birthday gift 𝕏
Got Alipay to work in China as proxy for Didi Meituan and Baidu 𝕏
Russians are traveling to China a lot because they're blocked from most places 𝕏
I started lifting weights at 30 and gained 30kg of muscle 𝕏
China isn't easy to travel 𝕏
Netherlands changes stock options tax to US system for startups 𝕏
EU is finally scaling down GDPR, AI Act and cookie banner laws 𝕏
Only the US and China have actual substantial startup activity now 𝕏
EU ChatControl is back with even more far reaching surveillance through the back door 𝕏
Singapore too is now compromised by degrowthers 𝕏
European Commission denies my request for GPUs 𝕏
EU's AI factory plan requires proposals while Lambda gives you 8x H100s in 5 minutes 𝕏
I can't use the EU's GPUs because Horizon 2020 closed in 2020 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
Get a VPS at Hetzner already 𝕏
Counter-law to let all European citizens read any EU politician's chats 𝕏
CdK Podcast: A brutal foreigner's view on Portugal
It turns out Mark Manson was mostly right about Brazil 𝕏
Jesus was a Jewish hippie that went backpacking in India 𝕏
Correlation between screen size and your importance in the company 𝕏
10g of creatine per day 𝕏
Europe must stop restricting air conditioning or heat deaths will hit 500,000 per year 𝕏
Stripe Podcast: A Cheeky Pint with John CollisonChinese pigs are treated better than the average European 𝕏
Spain's meteorological agency says healthy people should not use air conditioning 𝕏
Silence is high IQ 𝕏
More Europeans die from heat than Americans from shootings 𝕏
My friend lives in a tent in his house in Portugal because neighbors ban real AC 𝕏
I made a trailer for the future of humanity (e/acc) 𝕏
South Asian immigrants in Portugal game welfare for passports and EU access 𝕏
I randomly discovered Dubai has an absolutely massive solar farm 𝕏
Visiting my API provider FAL in San Francisco 𝕏
Visiting OpenAI's office in San Francisco and seeing the city's improvements 𝕏
Electricity is down in entire Portugal and Spain peninsula 𝕏
The only thing young people in Southern Europe can do is drink and smoke 𝕏
Winners of the 2025 vibe code game jam 𝕏
Europe wants to reduce its anti-AI act and GDPR to compete in AI 𝕏
Andrej Karpathy visited my weekly coworking in Portugal 𝕏
So Trump is vibe presidenting 𝕏
Europe to slash GDPR privacy law in weeks to compete with US and China 𝕏
Europe is cooked as Italy bans AC below 26°c 𝕏
Being an entrepreneur now has more job security than a job 𝕏
What ChatGPT says the devil would do to keep an entire nation sick 𝕏
What's crazy when you read about Taiwan Semiconductors is you realize Nvidia are essentially dropshippers 𝕏
fly.pieter.com, my first vibecoded flight simulator which reached $1M ARR in 17 days 𝕏
Man investigated after calling German vice-chancellor ‘idiot’ 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
Europeans have collective memory loss from just 35 years ago 𝕏
Dating apps don't work in 2025 so meet people through hobbies and friends 𝕏
Meeting Bryan Johnson at Din Tai Fung and his don't die health cult 𝕏
Make Europe great again 𝕏
Europe slowly realizing it's losing the last control it had on the world with ignored censorship requests 𝕏
The Brazilian real currency should be on crypto exchanges because it's the biggest shitcoin ever 𝕏
The only planes left with zero fatal accidents now 𝕏
A tractor is a great parallel to AI because it helps people do their work easier and faster 𝕏
Renting saves you money over buying if you own the house for less than 15 years 𝕏
Self driving cars react 150x faster than a human driver 𝕏
Europe is ruled by rich nepotist families and unelected corporatist cronies killing startups 𝕏
EU/acc goals now on euacc.com 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
I put an AirTag in my plastic recycling to see if it actually gets recycled 𝕏
OnlyFans just hacked basic human biology 𝕏
Started lifting at 30 and that has avoided the pains most of my in-thirties friends have 𝕏Europe's end game might be to become like Japan a cheap tourist destination 𝕏
My minimal solo founder setup with 100% automation and 99% profit margins 𝕏
Lift weights to grow neurons MIT study shows 𝕏
The difference between free users and paying users is about 1,000x from my experience 𝕏
What is happening to Google now is pretty much textbook of what happened to Xerox PARC, but worse 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 𝕏Macron warns EU has only 2 or 3 years before total US and China dominance 𝕏
The poor get free gov money the rich avoid taxes and the middle class gets rekt 𝕏
Surround yourself with builders not talkers 𝕏
Travel and fitness are two of the most important things you can do for your brain 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 𝕏Fireside chat with Balaji Srinivasan at Network State Conference 2024
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
Bali broke ground on a subway that will connect the entire island 𝕏
Google APIs are the worst APIs on the web to work with 𝕏
European founder had to move to the US to build a humanoid robot company 𝕏
Pavel Durov arrested in France 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
Apple Maps vs Google Maps in 2024 𝕏
I made a deadlift ETF with CEOs that lift weights or fight sports outperforming the S&P 500 by 140% 𝕏
I only wear Alo Yoga shorts but they are made from polyester that disrupts your endocrine system 𝕏
Someone needs to invent cotton yoga shorts 𝕏
Europe's governments made energy expensive on purpose to stop you from using it 𝕏
Could air conditioning explain why more top US companies were founded after 1950 than in the EU? 𝕏
In Bali the heat puts your brain into power save idle mode 𝕏
If you wanna get rich install AC 𝕏
Amazon is a showroom for Aliexpress which is a showroom for Taobao 𝕏
Building Pieter.com, my retro PC in the browser 𝕏
I'm on 6 grams of creatine per day for the last 2 years 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
All Airbus models made in the last 25 years have zero fatal crashes 𝕏
If cars were invented today the European Union would have regulated them out of existence in favor of horses 𝕏
A majority of the worst ranked airports in the world are run by Da Vinci Airports 𝕏
Imagine traveling to Europe to spend your hard-earned money and getting sprayed with water guns by degrowth protesters 𝕏
American restaurants kick you out after one meal unlike Europe 𝕏
Japan is not futuristic it's a fossil stuck in 1990 unlike China Korea and Vietnam 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 𝕏Everything in Europe comes from Germany and everything in Germany comes from China 𝕏
Modern Europe bans working from cafes, but Old Europe invented it 𝕏
Degrowth propaganda is everywhere you look now 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
I grew up thinking Italy was the center of great coffee but it's burnt Robusta 𝕏
If you wanna get rich fastest make a premium product for Switzerland UAE US and Singapore 𝕏
US proposes ban on DJI drones after it became world's biggest manufacturer 𝕏
US bans Chinese companies after they become market leaders 𝕏
The euro kinda destroyed southern Europe's economies 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
New York City was founded by the Dutch as New Amsterdam 400 years ago 𝕏
It's time to start EU/acc the European version of e/acc 𝕏
Most Europeans don't realize how stagnant Europe has become 𝕏
Made EU/acc logo 𝕏
South America uses remote security people and doormen 𝕏
Wayfair used my AI interior design tool to build their own 𝕏
Got scammed with the extra zero trick at Órale Juanito Palermo in Buenos Aires 𝕏
Uber is completely useless in Argentina because of a hardcoded price check 𝕏
British people are now the 2nd most miserable people in the world 𝕏
MMA turned him from an awkward nervous wreck into a confident guy 𝕏
Every day it gets a little easier but you gotta do it every day 𝕏
AI generated images are 10,000x cheaper than any human could charge 𝕏
How I imagined my future million dollar startup office vs my actual million dollar startup office 𝕏
Open source LLMs reaching GPT-4 levels way earlier than we thought is the most exciting thing now to me 𝕏
There are more regulators in this room than AI scientists in all of EU 𝕏
Nobody will build apps on Gemini because Google always shuts things down 𝕏
Minimal architect sketches turned into renders with Interior AI v2 𝕏
You're just lucky 𝕏
Open sourced my entire ChatGPT code for image text adventures 𝕏
Trying self hosting alpaca a finetuned llama model after OpenAI drama 𝕏
I made my first video game with ChatGPT DALL-E RunwayML and ElevenLabs 𝕏
How I'd validate 30 startup ideas in 2023 with TikTok and Stripe preorders 𝕏
Nestle's Nesquik gets nutri-score a from EU Commission and WHO 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
I asked GPT4 which countries you should invest in real estate 𝕏
Unbothered writing vanilla JavaScript while web dev Twitter fights over TypeScript 𝕏
Why national postal services are so bad at delivering packages and Amazon is so good 𝕏
Office trends cycle every 7 years from cubicles to open offices and back 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
Why fold into wall beds never became a big thing 𝕏
$1,000,000 mortgage costs $2,217,160 total with interest 𝕏
How to feel like you're getting ahead but actually procrastinate 𝕏
Luxury restaurant in Portugal won't accept Visa or MasterCard but barefoot food cart guy in Brazil does 𝕏
MacBook adaptor costs $220 in Brazil instead of $99 due to import taxes 𝕏
Portuguese have a weird love/hate obsession with Brazil 𝕏
Photo AI is almost 14,000 lines of raw PHP making $61,808 per month 𝕏
Aspartame is proven to cause cancer in soda drinks 𝕏
Wagner coup is like when you hire a web dev and give GitHub access and he takes over your site 𝕏
Almost nobody I know in Asia wants to move to America anymore 𝕏
Big Dutch dairy company wants me to help create their AI strategy 𝕏
While the EU fights about nuclear energy China plans 150 new reactors 𝕏
I wish everywhere had these power outlets that accept any plug from US UK EU plus USB-C 𝕏
Photo AI adds try on mode for AI clothing models 𝕏
So why do you have a sticker over your webcam 𝕏
First class in America vs first class in Asia 𝕏
US flag stripes come from Indonesia's Majapahit empire 𝕏
Drinking alcohol negatively affects the liver and leads to fatty liver called cirrhosis 𝕏
Easiest hack to save lots of money is registering as a company 𝕏
Casio watch face for Apple Watch 𝕏
Buenos Aires is now #1 on Nomad List thanks to cheap currency 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
VC startup $100M exit nets 4 cofounders $47 per hour after dilution and taxes 𝕏
Digital nomads you are fucking disgusting graffiti in Portugal 𝕏
My new project Photo AI a photorealistic AI photo studio 𝕏
Google AI launches are all press releases without functioning products 𝕏
Airbnb hosts with strict rules and deposits versus easy hotels 𝕏
I proved people now have AI bots using ChatGPT to reply to tweets 𝕏
Music generated by finetuning Stable Diffusion on spectrograms then generating any song possible 𝕏
The real opportunity in AI for most people is building a front end around it 𝕏
Indonesia makes sex outside marriage illegal even in Bali while Thailand gets more progressive 𝕏
My biggest idea people aren't ready for is 2 dishwashers 𝕏
My GitHub contribution graph from 2014 to 2022 𝕏
Sold $100,000 in AI-generated avatars with AvatarAI.me in 10 days 𝕏
Create your own AI avatars with my new mini project avatarAI.me 𝕏
People asked me about my ergonomic desk set up 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
This House Does Not Exist
The best jobs are 100% remote 100% async with no scheduled meetings no whiteboard interviews and no monitoring systems 𝕏
My new project thishousedoesnotexist.org lets you generate AI ArchDaily style houses 𝕏
Ordered custom tailored 100% cotton shirts from son of a tailor 𝕏
How to generate AI images with Stable Diffusion on MacBook M1/M2 for free 𝕏
Non-alcohol socializing will be a big industry as people drink less alcohol now and in the future 𝕏
Craigslist has the most usable UX ever made 𝕏
Edgy opinions that will be mainstream within 10 years 𝕏
Todo.txt users sit at both ends of the IQ bell curve 𝕏
My First Million Podcast: Sam Parr + Shaan Puri asked me about bootstrapping, open startups and lifestyle inflation
The secret of Portugal is to leave Lisbon as fast as possible 𝕏
Life Done Differently Podcast: Thinking and doing for yourself
Top rising and falling destinations for remote workers in 2022 𝕏
Building Remotely Podcast: Relocation of remote workers
I just became a supporter of Ukraine's army for $1,000/mo 𝕏
The endless loop of getting ideas starting projects and telling everyone 𝕏
EU will require all job postings to show a salary range from August 𝕏
A crazy thing I realized about people more and less successful than you 𝕏
Indie Hackers Podcast: Money, happiness and productivity as a solo founder
A corner office in 2002 vs 2022 𝕏
Wannabe Entrepreneur Podcast: Bootstrapping, moving to Portugal and setting up Rebase
What advertising wants you to think makes you happy 𝕏
If you have $100,000 in savings you're losing $2,000 per month from inflation 𝕏
If I didn't travel in my early 20s I'd be working an office job instead of a $10m+ business 𝕏
Web4 will be finally closing our computer and going outside 𝕏
Only 4 out of 70+ projects I ever did made money and grew 𝕏
Me when I deploy to production without testing 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
The more I learn the less advice I want to give 𝕏
Rich and anonymous is the new rich and famous 𝕏
Lisbon is now the most visited city on Nomad List 𝕏
Made a fully functional fake VS Code to browse remote jobs without your boss finding out 𝕏
Chinese companies are silently ending US tech dominance 𝕏
3 of my close friends were hacked this month because they didn't have 2FA 𝕏
I just bought my first billboard in front of Apple's headquarters 𝕏
Fastest growing remote work hubs Mexico Canary Islands Dubai Miami Medellin 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
This is why I don't do calls 𝕏
Why coliving economics still don't make sense
Inflation Chart: the stock market adjusted for the US-dollar money supply
Delete your day trading app, hit the gym, buy ETFs and thank me in 20 years 𝕏
I did a live 4+ hour AMA on Twitch w/ @roxkstar74
Rest in peace Hubud Bali where I wrote the first lines of Nomad List 𝕏
No one should ever work
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
The future of remote work: how the greatest human migration in history will happen in the next ten years
Building Remotely Podcast: Will millions of remote workers become location independent in 2021?
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
Twitter will allow employees to work from home permanently 𝕏
I added a fake Japanese city called Dorobō to Nomad List to catch data thieves 𝕏
Asia had SARS so they test and isolate but the west tries its own thing 𝕏
Air pollution before and after Corona 𝕏
How to remove the macOS screenshot delay 𝕏
Hotel lobbies as the new secret free coworkings after public libraries 𝕏
Nassim Taleb on a single definition of success 𝕏
Current MacBook Pro status with broken keyboard and frozen shrimp 𝕏
Most decaf coffee is made from paint stripper
The odds of getting a remote job are less than 1% (because everyone wants one)
In the future writing actual code will be like using a pro DSLR camera, and no code will be like using a smartphone camera
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
Nobody cares about you after you're dead and the universe destroys itself
The only real validation is people paying for your product
Europe is very risky when monetary policy is almost out of gas, political fragmentation and missing the technology revolution 𝕏
Monitoring Bali's undersea internet cable
Nomad List 5 launches exactly 5 years after the first version on Product Hunt 𝕏
Nomad List turns 5
Fukuoka hotel I randomly booked turned out to be coliving with beautiful coworking 𝕏
The 'work hard enough to succeed' myth is used by the ownership class to exploit the middle class 𝕏
Tourist versus local maps for NYC, SF, Amsterdam and Tokyo 𝕏
How my video went viral with 150,000 RTs and 10 million views but Facebook pages bait-and-switched me for $0 𝕏
Bali banned single-use plastics and this cassava bag is the biodegradable alternative 𝕏
Overnight success is the biggest myth: 10 years and 98% failed projects to make $100k/mo 𝕏
Odds of launching something successfully 𝕏
Photopea is a 100% free browser version of Photoshop and it's better 𝕏
Why is our entire society built around the idea that sleep literally doesn't matter? 𝕏
In Beijing you can add your public transit card to Apple Wallet 𝕏
Beijing air turned into hell on earth this weekend from weekend driving 𝕏
Every receipt in Beijing gives you a QR code for digital bookkeeping 𝕏
Beijing today 𝕏
The foundations of geopolitics by Aleksandr Dugin describes our current world with scary accuracy 𝕏
How to get an idea for your startup from Craigslist 𝕏
Map of every European city 𝕏
Visited my favorite fintech Revolut's office in London and met the co-founder 𝕏
Launched no more Google on product hunt 𝕏
Walmart vs Google revenue and profit per employee 𝕏
The more religious a country, the less productive it is 𝕏
Internet speed vs murder rate 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
The first trillion dollar company is Norway's oil fund 𝕏
EU is making it impossible for startups to operate 𝕏
Went to a robot hotel with self check-in and no humans 𝕏
Blocked by a member of the European Parliament 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
Brazil hackers built an AI bot that finds anomalies in public spending 𝕏
I'm Product Hunt's Maker of the Year again!
Why Korean Jimjilbangs and Japanese Onsens are great
Using osx’s screenshot tool as a screen ruler 𝕏
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
As decentralized as cryptocurrency is: so will be the people working on it
China overtakes US as biggest economy in 2032 while Europe suffers 𝕏
The European Union's economy is shrinking as a share of the world market 𝕏
Half the people in Asian coworking spaces are now working on crypto 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
Devsplaining is high brow elitist behavior that keeps normal people out of programming 𝕏
RemoteOK.io is a single PHP file generating $2,342.04 a day 𝕏
My Revolut card was stolen in Bali but the app let me freeze it and ship a new one fast 𝕏
Speak at a conference reach 1,000 people write a blog post reach 100,000 people build a product reach 1,000,000 people 𝕏
Hipster is dead: the millennial is now a minimalist 𝕏
How to 3d scan any object with just your phone's camera
How to get healthcare as a digital nomad or stateless person 𝕏
You can 3d scan any object with just your phone's camera for free 𝕏
12 fucking rules for success 𝕏
I 3d scanned my parents' house and now I can walk through it in VR from inside Telegram 𝕏
Most important skill I learnt is to keep shipping day in day out 𝕏
IKEA’s ARKit app is 🔥🔥🔥 𝕏
My bank kept blocking me because I travel so I set up multiple backup banks 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
In a world of outrage, mute words
VC startups vs bootstrapped startups 𝕏
How to pack for world travel with just a carry-on bag
A new trend of fast food type web apps that are tiny single feature tools with no sign up and quick charging 𝕏
Building a startup in public: from first line of code to frontpage of Reddit
Facebook and Google are building their own cities: the inevitable future of private tech worker towns
The TL;DR MBA 𝕏
We did it! Namecheap has introduced 2FA
NYC's Bossa Nova Civic Club has similar dark techno vibes to Shanghai's Shelter 𝕏
It's about time for a digital work permit for remote workers
Using Uptime Robot to build unit tests for the web
Namecheap still doesn't support 2FA in 2017 (update: they do now!)
Taipei is boring, and maybe that's not such a bad thing
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
The ICANN mafia has taken my site hostage for 2 days now
Most coworking spaces don't make money; here's how they can adapt to survive the future
A society of total automation in which the need to work is replaced with a nomadic life of creative play
Nomad List Founder
Finally met John O'Nolan in real life in Chiang Mai 𝕏
Finally my two hobbies merged: travel and VR with Nomad List VR 𝕏
How to fix flying
How long it takes to complete a task 𝕏
Robots make mistakes too: How to log your server with push notifications straight to your phone
Vaporwave impression about my month in Shanghai 𝕏
Choosing entrepreneurship over a corporate career
Hong Kong Express - 上海 (Shanghai)
"I can't buy happiness anymore. I've bought everything that I ever wanted. There's not really anything I want anymore."
From web dev to VR: How to get started with VR development
Working from a free coworking space in Shanghai 𝕏
The Shelter in Shanghai is a cyberpunk Bladerunner club from the year 2150 𝕏
What I would do if I was 18 now
We have an epidemic of bad posture
Fixing "Inf and NaN cannot be JSON encoded" in PHP the easy way
Biggest difference living in Netherlands and Western Europe compared to US 𝕏
My third time in a float tank and practicing visualizing the future
Why Dutch founders are not hiring Dutch people 𝕏
How to add shareable pictures to your website with some PhantomJS magic
My chatbot gets catcalled
From web dev to 3d: Learning 3d modeling in a month
Basic income will be one of the greatest things to happen to people 𝕏
My second time in a sensory deprivation chamber
Day 30 of Learning 3d 🎮 Cloning objects 👾👾👾
Day 29 of Learning 3d 🎮 Glass, reflectives, HD, coloring and more details
Day 27 of Learning 3d 🎮 Details, details, DETAILS!
Day 23 of Learning 3d 🎮 Filling up the street and adding shadows
Day 22 of Learning 3d 🎮 Added rain, blinking lights, sound, textured menu sign and a VR web app
Day 21 of Learning 3d 🎮 High res textures, physical rendering and ambient occlusion
Day 20 of Learning 3d 🎮 Objects and camera perspectives 🙆
My first time floating in a sensory deprivation tank ☺️
Day 10 of Learning 3d 🎮 Making complex objects by combining shapes 🙆
Day 4 of Learning 3d: @shoinwolfe visits the actual street I'm modeling 🏮😎🏮
Day 1 of Learning 3d 🎮 I learnt how to make shapes, move, rotate and scale them + how to texturize, and add colored lights 💆
I'm Learning 3d 🎮
The things I have to do to read an email sent to me by my government
How to use your iPhone as a better Apple TV alternative (with VPN)
My 2015 revenue was $202,785 with one Linode server one MacBook no office no house hardly any expenses and $0 funding 𝕏
Here's a crazy idea: automatically pause recurring subscription of users when you detect they aren't actually using your app
Stop calling night owls lazy, we're not
We are the heroes of our own stories
Beijing air quality hits 543 AQI 𝕏
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
Speedtest on slow internet 𝕏
First a cookie law then VATMOSS now a net neutrality law that's against net neutrality 𝕏
There will be 1 billion digital nomads by 2035
Tobias van Schneider interviewed me about everything
Why doesn't Twitter just asks its users to pay?
Punk died the moment we learnt that the world WAS in fact getting better, not worse
Stop being everyone's friend
Vaporwave is the only music that fits the feeling futuristic Asian mega cities give me
How to export your Slack's entire archive as HTML message logs
How to play GTA V on your MacBook (and any other PC game)
Every EU country is now presenting themselves as startup friendly by doing promo events but how about rewriting the tax code? 𝕏
Nomad List hit Reddit's frontpage 𝕏
I uploaded 4 terabyte over Korea's 4G, and paid $48
How I sped up Nomad List by 31% with SPDY, CloudFront and PageSpeed
Wore my banana shirt and finally met Yongfook who Youjindo interviewed for her docu 𝕏
My weird code commenting style based on HTML tags
Now is probably the time to make HTTPS the default on all your sites and apps
Don't grow up
Do the economics of remote work retreats make any sense?
Calling people "expat" or "nomad" is just as irrelevant as calling internet users "netizens"
How I built Remote | OK and launched it to #1 on Product Hunt
Our society is not in line with our natural reward systems, and alcohol and drug abuse proves it
Makers have become the invisible hand
How technology is shaping our future: billions of self-employed makers and a few mega corporations
Love, Anxiety and Startups: My Year in 50 Tweets
How to backup your Linode or Digital Ocean VPS to Amazon S3
If you're always working you're not crushing it you're just highly inefficient 𝕏
The total chaos that the dawn of the 21st century has become
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
"If I had this, I would be happy"
This is what happens when FlightFox copies your entire site without attribution
What I learnt from launching products is that the real work starts when everyone has stopped talking about you 𝕏
GIFbook, the first animated GIF flipbook
On Thailand's immigration police targeting digital nomads
How I built Nomad Jobs, a remote job board for 100% distributed startups
Danism & Rae - Sirens
How I got my startup to #1 on both Product Hunt and Hacker News by accident
Why does Generation Y feel so lost? And what's the cure?
Manila
You won't reach success by socializing networking attending events and meeting ppl for coffee 𝕏
How to access anyone's Telegram messages without unlocking their phone
The achiever in crisis
How I did not sell my startup today
The free fall that is coming home after traveling the world
Never dismiss your ideals as post-adolescent fantasy
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
We have an ideologically broken and personally unfulfilling society
On self-funding startups
Run through ideas quickly
If you can't express yourself by email, you're not worthy of anyone's timeMy 2nd startup: Go Fucking Do It, set a goal + deadline and if you fail, you pay
Over 2,000 people played their inbox with Play My Inbox
Celebrating my birthday North Korean style
How Automation Left Us Feeling EmptyPlay My Inbox, collect music from your inbox and playlist them
I'm Launching 12 Startups in 12 Months
How to protect your backups from solar flares with a faraday cage
Linkoban - Oh Oh
Nationality is an accident of birth
How I Went From 100 To 0 Things (Or How I Was Robbed of All My Stuff)
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
Celebrating NYE 2014 in Hong Kong
How I ended up in Hong Kong (or my adventures in the New York of the East)
It's practically impossible for regular people to buy Bitcoin
2014 is the year techstep drum and bass makes its comeback
Rinse FM, here's your podcast feed we've always wanted
How I spent the night with Singapore's migrant workers
How I travel the world with just a carry-on bag
Why I want to live in Singapore
How I predict Bitcoin's price by tracking Twitter mentions
James Blake & Chance The Rapper - Life Round Here
Sasha Keable - Careless Over You
My not so great time in Vietnam
The myth of a globalized world
Wiley - And Again
What happens when you're #1 on Hacker News for a day
Remote working is the future
Steve Summers - New Surroundings
What I learnt from bootstrapping my startup from Thailand in six months
Cash means controlling your own destiny
Palms Trax - Equation
You're just a piece of a heartless shitty machine that makes money
Automation Will Free Us From the Endless Consumption/Production Cycle We're In
National Borders Have Become Irrelevant
A Culture of Distraction is Not The Problem
Governments are always ready to grab the greatest degree of power that the people will give them
You constantly need to be painting or it looks like total crap
Oversight: Thank You For Volunteering, Citizen
Stripe launches beta in the Netherlands
Google+ spamming people every 2 weeks to put up a profile photo
The 100 Thing Challenge – From 200 to 20 things in 3 months
Living in a Hotel
This is what "acting professionally" results in
The Story of my Visa Run to Tachileik in Myanmar
Lockah - Sly Winking Usury
Stand-up comedians on creativity
Money as an enslavement method
With jobs gone, will robot owners pay people's income?
Make money where prices are high, spend it where prices are low. Does income arbitrage work?
Finding an apartment in Chiang Mai
Add HTTPS to NGINX for free and help make the world more secure
Co-Working Spaces in Chiang Mai: PunSpace
Moving to Chiang Mai
My Bad Day At The Co-Working Space
If it's in the news, don't worry about it
The 24-Hour Coffee Place in Bangkok: Too Fast To Sleep
Nosaj Thing x Chance the Rapper - Paranoia
"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..."
Koh Phangan is the Disneyland of Partying
Visiting Koh Samui, the island of paradise
From dive bar to roof-top bar to roof-top pool in Bangkok
"To awaken quite alone in a strange town..."
Co-working spaces in Bangkok: Launchpad
"Do whatever you're drawn to"
The 100 Thing ChallengeCo-working spaces in Bangkok: Hubba
Reset your life
Black Mirror is the best TV series I have seen in years
Constraints make people more creative
Why overnight success is a myth
Dedicating our lives to what is essentially an organization to make money
Kitty Pryde & Riff Raff - Orion's Belt
Watch The Pirate Bay: Away From the Keyboard
My new music video for rap duo RASA
What if money was no object in your life?
Why attention to detail matters, even if no one notices the details
In the 21st century, Maria Montessori shows to be more relevant than ever
FML - OCTOPU$$Y
The death of the corporate drone
The West's unemployment problem is permanent
UPSKRT - Brynn's Theme
New Panda Mix Show branding and website
Headhunterz - Power of Music
Essendle interview on my music and my YouTube show
The XX - Angels
Anna Lunoe & Diamond Lights - Stronger (Willy Joy Remix)
Spenzo - Ova
Herve feat. Ronika - How Can I Live Without You (Make it Right) (Death Rose Cult Remix)
Pheo - Nyquil
Why buying YouTube views is bad
Citizen - Deep End
I love minimalist living
D!RTY AUD!O intro
Anybody can monetize their passion (now)
Diplo - No Problem
Skream - Thoughts of You
TEED - Blood Pressure
Today is the first day of the rest of your life
Happiness maximization vs. profit maximization
Music genres are dead
Make a great product
solipsisticNATION Podcast: Drum & Bass interview with Panda
Playing drum and bass live at Winston in Amsterdam with MC Don.Skey
Eclectro Podcast: An exclusive Drum & Bass minimix by Panda
DNBforum.nl Podcast: Panda Drum & Bass presents Retake Manhattan
