Entrepreneurship

285 posts

29 Aug Omarchy by DHH passes the irrational haters test with flying colours 𝕏
25 Aug There are more apps than ever but less sales than ever 𝕏
24 Aug Never stop talking about hotelist.com until everyone finds out 𝕏
23 Aug I think if you make a sportswear brand that is not plastic but organic materials you will become very rich 𝕏
18 Aug This food is super basic, healthy, and nutrient-dense but no restaurants serve it 𝕏
15 Aug My X revenue hit a new record of about $25,000 this month 𝕏
3 Aug My accountant replied with a 100% AI answer so why not replace him with AI 𝕏

28 May EU AI fund is all cronyism and taxpayer money burnt 𝕏
27 May Build on the side until it makes money before quitting your job 𝕏
23 May I don't write code anymore 𝕏

28 Feb I ran Claude Code on the server in bypass mode and outran my todo list 𝕏
24 Feb How to build a bootstrapped startup without funding 𝕏
17 Feb Steipete on why Europe can't retain talent due to regulations and labor laws 𝕏
7 Feb Visiting Brazil's biggest indie hacker meetup 𝕏

20 Jan Europe's 28th regime could create a Delaware for startups 𝕏
20 Jan Europe's tax system discourages hard work and new businesses 𝕏

17 Dec I bought over $1M in Google because Sergey returned and they're winning AI 𝕏
15 Dec Sergey Brin got so bored of his $450M yacht he had to create things again 𝕏
14 Dec Why Koreans didn't get richer 𝕏
11 Dec Advice I give 5 minutes after meeting somebody new 𝕏

28 Nov Chinese brands replacing Western brands in China 𝕏
28 Nov Western people used in Chinese marketing to represent quality 𝕏
21 Nov Netherlands changes stock options tax to US system for startups 𝕏
17 Nov Only the US and China have actual substantial startup activity now 𝕏

25 Aug Correlation between screen size and your importance in the company 𝕏

9 Jul Stripe Podcast: A Cheeky Pint with John Collison

21 May Visiting my API provider FAL in San Francisco 𝕏
11 May Visiting OpenAI's office in San Francisco and seeing the city's improvements 𝕏

26 Apr The only thing young people in Southern Europe can do is drink and smoke 𝕏
10 Apr Andrej Karpathy visited my weekly coworking in Portugal 𝕏
7 Apr Europe to slash GDPR privacy law in weeks to compete with US and China 𝕏

28 Mar Being an entrepreneur now has more job security than a job 𝕏

30 Jan Leaked EU competitiveness compass draft emphasizes accelerate and cut red tape 𝕏
29 Jan We need a federal union of Europe to compete with US and China 𝕏
17 Jan Meeting Bryan Johnson at Din Tai Fung and his don't die health cult 𝕏

14 Dec Europe is ruled by rich nepotist families and unelected corporatist cronies killing startups 𝕏
10 Dec How Elon does politics is smartest and my 6 goals for Europe 𝕏
9 Dec I got 1 billion views on X in the last 12 months 𝕏
9 Dec Both a16z and YC's request for startups for 2025 just came out 𝕏
2 Dec OnlyFans just hacked basic human biology 𝕏

31 Oct Rent an empty office space and invent the future 𝕏
6 Oct Every European with talent moves to the US for startups or Bali and Chiang Mai for indie hacking 𝕏
2 Oct Surround yourself with builders not talkers 𝕏

26 Sep Will there be anyone left at OpenAI in the future? 𝕏
26 Sep Sam Altman will give himself 7% of OpenAI worth $10.5B 𝕏
23 Sep Nomad List is one of the first network states 𝕏
22 Sep Fireside chat with Balaji Srinivasan at Network State Conference 2024
22 Sep I hit a new $420,000/mo revenue record thanks to the Lex Fridman podcast 𝕏
16 Sep Thierry Breton resigns after EU AI Act and DSA criticism 𝕏
12 Sep Arresting Jack Ma was the dumbest thing China has ever done 𝕏
9 Sep My recommendations for mario draghi's EU competitiveness report 𝕏

31 Aug European founder had to move to the US to build a humanoid robot company 𝕏
24 Aug I still meet programmers who are not using AI to code 𝕏
24 Aug The web development industrial complex has lied to your face 𝕏
20 Aug Lex Fridman Podcast 𝕏
19 Aug I made a deadlift ETF with CEOs that lift weights or fight sports outperforming the S&P 500 by 140% 𝕏
5 Aug Could air conditioning explain why more top US companies were founded after 1950 than in the EU? 𝕏

30 Jul Amazon is a showroom for Aliexpress which is a showroom for Taobao 𝕏
24 Jul Finally met my hero Patrick Collison founder of Stripe 𝕏
13 Jul Thierry Breton represents 100+ year old European dinosaur companies as EU tech policy director 𝕏
7 Jul A majority of the worst ranked airports in the world are run by Da Vinci Airports 𝕏
2 Jul Jack Ma met Jerry Yang at the great wall of China in 1997 𝕏
1 Jul The rise and fall of Lisbon (2020-2024) 𝕏

30 Jun I made luggage losers a live ranking of airlines by lost luggage 𝕏
15 Jun Learn Python for remote AI jobs paying median 80k 𝕏
14 Jun Guy sells his $50k/mo business for $10m but it's just an acquihire 𝕏
13 Jun So many VC funded exits are actually massive failures 𝕏
7 Jun If you wanna get rich fastest make a premium product for Switzerland UAE US and Singapore 𝕏

14 May EU company landscape is run by dinosaurs founded 50 years before US ones 𝕏
14 May My first interaction with a WIRED journalist 10 years ago 𝕏

29 Apr Most Europeans don't realize how stagnant Europe has become 𝕏

27 Mar Wayfair used my AI interior design tool to build their own 𝕏

20 Dec How I imagined my future million dollar startup office vs my actual million dollar startup office 𝕏
2 Dec You're just lucky 𝕏

13 Nov How I'd validate 30 startup ideas in 2023 with TikTok and Stripe preorders 𝕏

22 Jul How to feel like you're getting ahead but actually procrastinate 𝕏
3 Jul Photo AI is almost 14,000 lines of raw PHP making $61,808 per month 𝕏

20 Jun Big Dutch dairy company wants me to help create their AI strategy 𝕏

14 May Only losers go to networking events 𝕏

29 Apr Easiest hack to save lots of money is registering as a company 𝕏

18 Mar Two types of people now 𝕏
11 Mar If I was just out of school I'd fly to Bangkok to bootstrap my startup for $240 a month 𝕏
5 Mar We need more makers less coaches 𝕏

18 Feb VC startup $100M exit nets 4 cofounders $47 per hour after dilution and taxes 𝕏

29 Dec Airbnb hosts with strict rules and deposits versus easy hotels 𝕏
10 Dec The real opportunity in AI for most people is building a front end around it 𝕏

11 Nov My GitHub contribution graph from 2014 to 2022 𝕏
7 Nov Sold $100,000 in AI-generated avatars with AvatarAI.me in 10 days 𝕏

10 Oct Asking successful people about their tech stack is focusing on the wrong thing 𝕏
4 Oct How I built Interiorai.com from scratch in 5 days 𝕏

19 Aug Non-alcohol socializing will be a big industry as people drink less alcohol now and in the future 𝕏

14 Jul My First Million Podcast: Sam Parr + Shaan Puri asked me about bootstrapping, open startups and lifestyle inflation

16 May Life Done Differently Podcast: Thinking and doing for yourself

12 Dec If I didn't travel in my early 20s I'd be working an office job instead of a $10m+ business 𝕏

7 Nov Only 4 out of 70+ projects I ever did made money and grew 𝕏

20 Jul You only need 26 customers paying you $99/mo to make an average U.S. income 𝕏

6 Jun I just bought my first billboard in front of Apple's headquarters 𝕏

12 Apr Photopea makes almost $1M/y built by Ukrainian indie maker with vanilla JS 𝕏
12 Apr Remote OK is a single PHP file generating $101,101 this month 𝕏

25 Mar The next frontier after remote work is async
25 Mar Why I'm unreachable and maybe you should be too
19 Mar List of all my projects ever
8 Mar Why coliving economics still don't make sense

3 Feb Delete your day trading app, hit the gym, buy ETFs and thank me in 20 years 𝕏

10 Jan I did a live 4+ hour AMA on Twitch w/ @roxkstar74

28 Oct The floor is profit 𝕏
21 Oct I'm building a new mini startup this week after finding an idea road tripping in Portugal 𝕏
21 Oct Quibi burned 2 billion dollars of VC funding in 6 months 𝕏
2 Oct 2020 sucked so I'm giving away another MacBook Pro 16" to cheer people up 𝕏

21 Sep RemoteOK.io is a single PHP file generating $65,651 this month 𝕏

28 Aug This week I built a startup idea generator with GPT-3 𝕏
24 Aug Perfection paralysis stops you from getting things done 𝕏

11 Apr Product Hunt Podcast: 5 years in startups with Abadesi

11 Jan Twitter giveaways can be hacked to win every time

30 May It took 4 years to reach $1m annual revenue with Nomad List and Remote OK 𝕏

16 Mar How my video went viral with 150,000 RTs and 10 million views but Facebook pages bait-and-switched me for $0 𝕏

2 Jan Joe Rogan podcast gets 1.5 billion listens and $50-100M revenue per year independently 𝕏

27 Dec Overnight success is the biggest myth: 10 years and 98% failed projects to make $100k/mo 𝕏
15 Dec Odds of launching something successfully 𝕏

14 Nov How to get an idea for your startup from Craigslist 𝕏

1 Oct Visited my favorite fintech Revolut's office in London and met the co-founder 𝕏

26 Sep Launched no more Google on product hunt 𝕏
3 Sep Walmart vs Google revenue and profit per employee 𝕏

18 Aug Why Europe can't do tech: low risk tolerance chart 𝕏

27 Jul Barriers of entry to building a startup have never been so low 𝕏
18 Jul The internet complains about facebook selling data but wants indie apps for free 𝕏
4 Jul EU is making it impossible for startups to operate 𝕏

21 Mar Building a startup: what people think vs reality 𝕏
20 Mar Don't quit your job until side project revenue surpasses it for 6 months 𝕏
12 Mar My book MAKE on bootstrapping startups is now live on Product Hunt 𝕏

26 Feb I just passed $52,843 in monthly revenue 𝕏

11 Dec Nomad List 3.0 is now live on Product Hunt 𝕏
9 Dec The narrative of 20 year old founders is false most are over 36 𝕏
7 Dec RemoteOK.io is a single PHP file generating $2,342.04 a day 𝕏

28 Nov 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

13 Oct 12 fucking rules for success 𝕏

27 Sep Most important skill I learnt is to keep shipping day in day out 𝕏

26 Jul Building a startup in public: from first line of code to frontpage of Reddit
21 Jul The TL;DR MBA 𝕏

10 Feb Most coworking spaces don't make money; here's how they can adapt to survive the future

7 Jan Nomad List Founder

20 Oct How long it takes to complete a task 𝕏
17 Oct Choosing entrepreneurship over a corporate career
5 Oct What I would do if I was 18 now

22 Sep Bootstrapping side projects into profitable startups

22 Jun Why Dutch founders are not hiring Dutch people 𝕏

5 Jan My 2015 revenue was $202,785 with one Linode server one MacBook no office no house hardly any expenses and $0 funding 𝕏

23 Dec Here's a crazy idea: automatically pause recurring subscription of users when you detect they aren't actually using your app

21 Oct Tobias van Schneider interviewed me about everything
18 Oct Why doesn't Twitter just asks its users to pay?
15 Oct Stop being everyone's friend

17 Jun Every EU country is now presenting themselves as startup friendly by doing promo events but how about rewriting the tax code? 𝕏

28 Mar Makers have become the invisible hand

2 Sep How I build my minimum viable products

14 Jun The achiever in crisis
12 Jun How I did not sell my startup today

1 Mar I'm Launching 12 Startups in 12 Months

22 Nov Why I want to live in Singapore

16 Sep Automation Will Free Us From the Endless Consumption/Production Cycle We're In

16 Jul This is what "acting professionally" results in

19 Jun Make money where prices are high, spend it where prices are low. Does income arbitrage work?

24 Apr "Do whatever you're drawn to"

20 Feb Constraints make people more creative
20 Feb Why overnight success is a myth

30 Dec Unless the job itself is your dream, stay the fuck away from salaried jobs

30 Nov Success is One Big Hoax

18 Oct The death of the corporate drone

24 Sep My 2012 master's thesis on how technology changed the music industry

21 Aug Essendle interview on my music and my YouTube show

5 Jul Why buying YouTube views is bad
1 Jul Anybody can monetize their passion (now)

19 Jun Today is the first day of the rest of your life
17 Jun Happiness maximization vs. profit maximization
15 Jun Make a great product

21 Sep My 2010 bachelor thesis on firm size and innovation

27 Jun My Drum & Bass and Dubstep merch line on Spreadshirt