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Pieter Levels

What Pieter Levels thinks about simplicity

@pieter-levels · 128 positions · 2 changes of mind

Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs his internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.

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3 dated positions, 2024, in their own words. Our reading of what Pieter Levels has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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  1. Our readingThe hard part of building a product in a month is working out what not to build.

    Their wordsI think the hard part is figuring out what you shouldn’t add, what you shouldn’t build, because you don’t have time.

    ↗Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life | Lex Fridman Podcast #440youtube.com 3rd of 30 in this recording

  3. Our readingSociety would save time if software were built with the simplest, most pragmatic technology that works.

    Their wordsAnd for society, if we want to save time, we should probably use the technology that’s simple, that’s pragmatic, that works, that’s not overly complicated, it doesn’t make your life like a living hell.

    ↗Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life | Lex Fridman Podcast #440youtube.com 8th of 30 in this recording

  5. Our readingMore tools and more gear make you slower, not faster.

    Their wordsMan, I’m suspicious of more. Do you really need all the stuff? It might slow me down actually.

    ↗Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life | Lex Fridman Podcast #440youtube.com 27th of 30 in this recording

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