Entrepreneurship

263 posts

2026

21 Jul AI raises everyone's app quality but customers now vibecode their own clones to skip paying 𝕏
20 Jul Looking through 80+ seed incubator applications shows everyone's building similar AI slop 𝕏
18 Jul 5% ownership is probably the most common final stake for VC funded startup founders 𝕏
14 Jul All you need to build a business is free open source software a VPS an AI API and R2/S3 𝕏
14 Jul I invested in EthSystems to make Ethereum private for banks 𝕏
11 Jul 2 hours after a German signs up to your site 𝕏
9 Jul Testing my iOS app on web with Claude Code and serve-sim on a headless Mac Mini 𝕏
7 Jul One more week to escape the underclass 𝕏
21 Jun LVMH buys luxury brands like Tiffany and Rimowa then 10x prices while cutting costs 10x 𝕏
16 Jun My first real investment exit with Cursor AI 𝕏
16 Jun SpaceX valuation seems crazy until you try airline WiFi without Starlink 𝕏
8 Jun Indie hackers build fancy AI factories but have no money or traffic 𝕏
6 Jun Everyone can now build apps with AI so now distribution is the real challenge 𝕏
4 Jun Revolut fixed my banking nightmares after Rabobank froze my card in Bali and made me homeless in the US 𝕏
3 Jun This is how you do a great startup video 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
30 Apr Winning my first big Stripe dispute in a decade with a vibe coded responder 𝕏
18 Apr My sites get 4 billion requests a year but I only pay $244/mo to host them on my own VPS 𝕏
30 Mar Why Portuguese businesses don't want more customers or to grow 𝕏
21 Mar Daniel Radcliffe makes $660,000/mo from investments in perfect fire story 𝕏
6 Mar OpenClaw's real power user is my girlfriend chatting with it in Telegram 𝕏
6 Mar Photoai.com is a 40,870 line index.php making 105,000/mo revenue and 80,000/mo profit 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

2025

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
24 Oct EU's AI factory plan requires proposals while Lambda gives you 8x H100s in 5 minutes 𝕏
23 Oct EU AI factories have 500x less compute than xAI 𝕏
23 Oct EU AI factories require proposal calls and endless ethical questionnaires instead of simple GPU access 𝕏
1 Oct levels.vc - my investment fund
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

2024

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
22 Nov My minimal solo founder setup with 100% automation and 99% profit margins 𝕏
1 Nov The difference between free users and paying users is about 1,000x from my experience 𝕏
1 Nov Sundar Pichai fumbled Google's AI head start and it'll be studied for decades 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

2023

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
25 Oct The Bootstrapped Founder Podcast: Indie hacking is dead, now what?
24 Oct Headspace was started at 38 by former monk Andy Puddicombe who exited at 50 𝕏
5 Oct If i was 18 today i’d skip uni and go nomad building startups 𝕏
25 Sep Actionable marketing tactic to get tiktok videos about your app for $100-$300 𝕏
6 Sep Why national postal services are so bad at delivering packages and Amazon is so good 𝕏
8 Aug Invested in Brazil after traveling there for a month 𝕏
4 Aug Good example is GoJEK a super app in Asia where you can do everything from ordering an Uber to massage and investing 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

2022

2021

2020

19 Dec This is the most exciting time in history to start a company online 𝕏
10 Dec Normalization of non-deviance
5 Dec Copywriting for entrepreneurs: explain your product how you'd explain it to a friend
30 Nov Entrepreneurs are the heroes, not the villains
2 Nov Overengineering everything is the disease of modern day developers 𝕏
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

2019

2018

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
7 Apr Sitting in traffic each morning to stare at a screen for 40 years is capitalism's greatest con 𝕏
1 Apr People forget how much advantage you have in 2018 as an indie business 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
29 Jan I'm Product Hunt's Maker of the Year again!
24 Jan Turning side projects into profitable startups
17 Jan Indie Hackers Podcast: Confronting fears and taking a leap
3 Jan What I learnt from 100 days of shipping
2 Jan Money should buy freedom from employment not Bentley cars and Rolex watches 𝕏

2017

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
16 Aug Avoid accelerators incubators coaches bootcamps instead ship 𝕏
4 Aug VC startups vs bootstrapped startups 𝕏
26 Jul Building a startup in public: from first line of code to frontpage of Reddit
21 Jul The TL;DR MBA
16 Apr What we can learn from Stormzy about transparency
3 Apr I battled a 20-ppl million-dollar VC-funded team building the same product for 2 years 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

2016

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

2015

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2012

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
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

2010

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