📸https://t.co/lAyoqmSBRX $100K/m 🛰https://t.co/ZHSvI2wjyW $44K/m 🎮https://t.co/jFirUbDgtZ $39K/m 🏡https://t.co/1oqUgfD6CZ $35K/m 👙https://t.co/RyXpqGuFM3 + @X $14K/m 🌍https://t.co/UXK5AFqCaQ $10K/m 💾https://t.co/T74ZwJ1F0C $0/m
Oh no
Of course random people are all sending me money now I will buy 🥩 steak from it, promised 😊
Helicopters are fundamentally unstable
BREAKING: TV news helicopter crashes during live shot of bus crash in Los Angeles. The helicopter belongs to NBC Los Angeles (KNBC-TV). No word yet on casualties.
View quoted postRT Taylor Otwell Shipped vanilla PHP / index.php / @levelsio mode on Laravel Cloud today btw.
🇪🇺 Great data and actually I think we should use this kinds of data to completely turn around Europe's immigration policy: - We should have super easy inflow for immigrants from countries whose previous immigrants have shown low crime rates You're from Japan? Just fly here and you can stay forever - We should then almost completely ban any inflow from countries whose previous immigrants have shown high crime rates with instant deportations You're on the top of that list? You're not coming in, sorry. We have to keep Europeans safe first! Then you can add special exceptions for people in those worst rated countries for high quality talent, think AI engineers, neurosurgeons, high IQ people, with no crime records. But that process will take a little bit longer than just flying into Europe Then every year you check the data and you adjust the policy based on last 5 or 10 years of criminal history of immigrants from those places I think this is the most common sense policy and it'll make Europe much safer
Lots of people discuss immigration & crime in Europe, so I compiled what I think is ALL the data on the topic, which is hard because many countries hide it. Do they commit more crime? Is it because of age? Sex? Education? Poverty? Culture? 1. Sexual offenses & violent crime:
Great data
Lots of people discuss immigration & crime in Europe, so I compiled what I think is ALL the data on the topic, which is hard because many countries hide it. Do they commit more crime? Is it because of age? Sex? Education? Poverty? Culture? 1. Sexual offenses & violent crime:
Of course random people are all sending me money now I will buy 🥩 steak from it, promised 😊
Ok if you add a payment link, you get a [ Pay ] button and anyone can send you money! And you can remove your private details from the Stripe profile too They're auto filled (which I think they shouldn't be cause d0x risk) https://stripe.com/@levelsio I think these kinds of
Of course next is @X Money So we might all be paying with our usernames soon! (AI generated based on @niccruzpatane's pic)
Ok if you add a payment link, you get a [ Pay ] button and anyone can send you money! And you can remove your private details from the Stripe profile too They're auto filled (which I think they shouldn't be cause d0x risk) https://stripe.com/@levelsio I think these kinds of
Ok if you add a payment link, you get a [ Pay ] button and anyone can send you money! And you can remove your private details from the Stripe profile too They're auto filled (which I think they shouldn't be cause d0x risk) http://stripe.com/@levelsio I think these kinds of profiles and @Cloudflare's are a step to get the world ready for AI agent style payments that will pass by the traditional expensive credit card system and just go straight stable coin wallet-to-wallet Very cool!
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do you know you can make burgers healthy enough that you can eat them for breakfast? how? - use lean meat (this is 90% venison) - skip the bun - make your own sauce instead of using red sugar sauce (aka ketchup) (see previous post) 40g of protein and only 400 calories! smash?
My hair should be gray by now Instead it's turning gold from the sun 🌞 I'm increasingly convinced gray hair is at least partly due to oxidative stress from the average diet now that's mostly processed food, as well as lack of heavy exercise and obesity So you can at least partly avoid it by eating clean, exercising heavy and sleeping well I think
LVMH is now 35.22% down in the past 5 years Great to see the market is pricing it properly
A week ago, LVMH bought HYROX Yes I thought this was some joke too, but no it's real: "HYROX changed hands on Sept. 8. Infront Sports & Media completed the sale of its majority stake to a group led by L Catterton, the consumer investment firm backed by LVMH" Everything LVMH
Excellent idea
If you own an Airbnb, I suggest buying a PlayStation, pre-ordering GTA6, and making it the perfect place to play the game during release month Potential to get press coverage if you go all the way
The good guys won this week
jensen huang, CEO of nvidia, is currently onstage at the All In tech summit politely calling bullshit on the doomerism coming out of Anthropic (and OpenAI to some degree) right now nvidia just as conflicted as everyone, since it sells the chips to all the AI companies
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特朗普在 All-In Summit 现场给黄仁勋打电话,黄仁勋直接打开免提接了, 黄仁勋说很感谢总统能够看穿这一切,特朗普依旧是说鼓吹 AI 风险的都是骗局,唯一开心的人只有中国,还有一些州政府,支持建数据中心,然后说谁赢了 AI,谁就赢了。
View quoted postMy gaming PC I built exactly one year ago to play Flight Simulator 2024 has now doubled in value A year ago I paid €6,562 for it, now it's worth €13,178 (+100% or 2x) 128 GB of RAM has 5x'd, the RTX 5090 GPU up 2.3x, and SSD is up 1.3x Accidentally one of my best investments 🫨
My gaming PC I built last year to play Flight Simulator 2024 has almost doubled in value now A year ago I paid €6,562 for it, now it's worth €12,073 (+84%) The GPU 2x'd, RAM 4x'd, and SSD up a bit Never expected buying a gaming PC would outperform the S&P500!
View quoted postSince I added this ranking I seem to have activated lots of people and they're all uploading their travel history to http://nomads.com with the MCP endpoint at /mcp Here is @stevelacey's AI scouring his old emails for flight tickets and bookings to find his itinerary and add that to his profile at http://nomads.com/@stevelacey Very cool 😊
I do! I have one Starlink Mini for home cause I bought that one first with the idea of using it for travel but then it became our main one and we put it on the roof And one Starlink Mini for travel which we used last month on a boat in the Mediterranean, we had a balcony with only a little bit sky horizontally and still got 25mbps, which was way faster than the onboard WiFi (which was also Starlink btw but shared with 500 people) Also @mick__net used it when his MEO (or Vodafone? Or NOS) failed for weeks in Lisbon Get @starlink Only €35/mo!
@levelsio @Starlink Anyone is using Starlink Roam for both home and travel? Any feedback, or should I just get two separate Starlink antennas?
View quoted postRT @grok: @levelsio @PromptLLM Quinoa was a staple for Andean indigenous peasants for millennia and dismissed by Spanish colonizers as poor…
Today's brain food: - chicken quarters from 🇵🇹 local farm with 🥗 brussel sprouts - steak from 🇮🇪 Ireland (it's just too good) In the pan because not frozen (so no airfryer potential) Then finishing off with 400g 🍦 Skyr to hit 180g protein
I wouldn't know! To all people in 🇵🇹 Portugal: Get @starlink!
This is what Internet in Portugal right now looks like.. Lots of networks unreachable or severe packet loss, not great :( MEO is having some big issues.. hope they can get it under control.
Yes With audience, community and data being the moat I think this is a bit more important than before I have this subscribe box on http://levels.io and it sends people my full blog posts and tweets (if they're long and relevant, so not every single tweet) directly to people's email in full length So they don't even need to go to the site The point is that I have access to my audience to say things
owning your audience is more important than ever yet many creators rely fully on algo's whether or not they stay in business people like @levelsio and @thesamparr both maintain a newsletter to own part of their audience so should you (and I) in my journey to revamp my X a
View quoted post✨ Added a global ranking of users by travels now Someone requested it this as a feature This gamifies http://Nomads.com a little bit and makes people add more of their trips More trips = more data to score places on which improves the site's ranking and data for everyone User growth now went from about 300 sign ups per month to 3500 sign ups per month so that means doubling the user base (built over 10 years) within one year! Very nice I am not even in the top 10 but an acceptable #34 in ~50,000 users #1 is @scottbrills #3 is my friend @JohnONolan who's been a perpetual nomad for over a decade!
🎒After a decade, I have made https://nomads.com free for everyone now! Well almost free, it's $1 to sign up to avoid getting lots of spam The reason is 1) I have made enough money (from it) 2) charging for a community artificially limits the size, if you put the price at
✨ Added a global ranking of users by travels now Someone requested it this as a feature This gamifies http://Nomads.com a little bit and makes people add more of their trips More trips = more data to score places on which improves the site's ranking and data for everyone User growth now went from about 300 sign ups per month to 3500 sign ups per month so that means doubling the user base (built over 10 years) within one year! Very nice I am not even in the top 10 but an acceptable #34 in ~50,000 users #3 is my friend @JohnONolan who's been a perpetual nomad for over a decade!
🎒After a decade, I have made https://nomads.com free for everyone now! Well almost free, it's $1 to sign up to avoid getting lots of spam The reason is 1) I have made enough money (from it) 2) charging for a community artificially limits the size, if you put the price at
Interesting, I killed my OpenClaw VPS servers months ago But today I got a billing alert on its separate Claude account (claudeforopenclaw@), it didn't have auto reload on but I guess at some point it got hacked and the Claude key inside OpenClaw got exposed and then they waited for months before using it on Fable 5.1 I checked all my terminals and VPS sessions and none of them use API so it's interesting Anyway I nuked the Claude account, good I kept it on its own separate one
YESSSS!!! 💪
I really love this guy
🇩🇪 Friedrich Merz, canciller alemán: “Debemos desregular todos los sectores. Pido un borrón y cuenta nueva regulatoria. Las pequeñas correcciones legislativas no son suficientes. Necesitamos revisar sistemáticamente toda la legislación vigente de la UE”
View quoted postVery very true Lots of money if you go IRL industries now Instead of selling tech to tech people who won't buy anything because they just vibe code it themselves
@levelsio @MaxRovensky I think a lot of people also get caught up in looking at people like you doing what you do and think that their only path forward is the same kind of 'sexy' projects that get 50k users overnight (without realising it took a decade of grinding to get there). No-one wants to work
View quoted postI just saw this @ycombinator's batch literally only has harness startups or hardware startups So the proof is in the pudding In the most early adopting tech pioneering place that's Silicon Valley new startups aren't even building software anymore And it's debatable if anyone will actually need a custom harness or it won't just be generically offered by the AI frontier companies So software is mostly dead and hardware it is
Well worth a watch. The only software in current YC cohort is domain specific harnesses, but maybe even harnesses are general purpose. In which case, folks, VC backed software startups are largely dead. ht @levelsio
View quoted postA sleeper train or bus you share with random people Self driving RV can go anywhere you want Imagine doing a perpetual road trip through Europe or US self driving Your own clean RV and you just wake up in different places!
@levelsio I’m not seeing this one What’s the difference with, say, a sleeper train?
View quoted postRT David Sacks Dario has written that we need to “pace the frontier,” and Sam has agreed. People may be surprised by my response: go ahead. You guys are the frontier. By any reasonable metric — market share, revenue growth, model capability — the two of you have a duopoly on frontier intelligence. You’ve also claimed the lead is widening because of recursive self-improvement. I don’t see what you see in the lab. If the unreleased models are scary enough that you think you should slow down, I support your decision to be responsible. But stop pretending you need anyone else’s permission. Stop pretending antitrust law has to be suspended so you can form a cartel. Stop pretending you need a regulatory approval process that supersedes product liability. Stop pretending METR is independent when it is intertwined with Anthropic’s investors and staff. Stop pretending you need those same evaluators to police competitors who aren’t even at the frontier. Most of all, stop pretending the motivation to slow down is purely altruistic. You face massive product-liability exposure if your products enable a truly damaging cyberattack. The market already punishes models that behave in unpredictable or unauthorized ways. After the Hugging Face episode, it is simply good business for OpenAI and Anthropic to trade some raw power for reliability and predictability. Call it alignment if you want. It is also just giving customers what they want. Pacing the frontier would also create breathing room for a more intelligent conversation about regulation than Bernie Sanders’ “shut it all down.” China is very unlikely to join a global agreement, as you know, and that has to be taken into account as well. So go ahead and pace the frontier. You are the ones setting it. The easiest way not to build superintelligence is for you to agree not to build it. Demanding your preferred regulatory framework as the price of that will look like blackmail of the public and the political system. So just do ...
Self driving will be the 4th wave of nomadism I think
Robotaxis won’t just kill short haul flights. Once you can sleep in them, they’ll cannibalize long routes too. Imagine getting into your Tesla in Austin at 10 PM, make the lie flat seat/bed comfortable, and going to sleep. While you sleep, the car drives, charges itself, and
I think he's right With regulatory capture we will speedrun to a new feudalist time Regulatory capture is where you pass regulation, or create government agencies to "protect the people" but in the end it helps protect companies because you stop new companies from being able to
View quoted postRelated to the idiocy of "software factories" Just using one AI coding agent is good enough and it can spin up more agents if it needs to You don't need to build that yourself
Fuck the Doomers. Fuck the Decels. Fuck the Commies. Access to AI is a right. Owning compute is a right. Come and take it. Over my dead body. Join us in the fight, anon.
He's right Rockerfeller did it first a century ago https://x.com/i/grok/share/b1a85dadc4944f67b3b3b046a28b767c
@levelsio This is the oldest trick in the book. Rockefeller said the same things about why we needed an oil cartel as Dario is saying about AI. He also was a true believer.
View quoted postThis whole thing feels super organized indeed I don't buy any of it
This is a massive, coordinated, international conspiracy campaign to monopolize ASI and be put in charge of the world government effort behind closed doors by the Doomers Do not trust them one second
View quoted postI think he's right With regulatory capture we will speedrun to a new feudalist time Regulatory capture is where you pass regulation, or create government agencies to "protect the people" but in the end it helps protect companies because you stop new companies from being able to enter the market, because the cost of following regulation is too much compete for a startup Neo feudalism will mean AI companies at the top and the rest of us as serfs paying them to use AI for literally everything Next in regulatory capture will be banning open source and/or Chinese models, mark my words That's a very dangerous thing because then there will never be new AI frontier companies being able to compete again and with exponential self improving AI that means essentially no competitors in any industry ever again as they will slowly suck up money in all industries Safety concerns of AI are scary but the neo feudalism of AI with regulatory capture is a way more scary for me
Get ready for all of the investors in frontier model companies to suddenly flip to regulatory capture mode today Their investments in frontier model companies are currently at risk/capped because the biggest buyers of tokens are embracing open-source models: vertical AI
View quoted postAttention is all you need
a lot of dev types are suffering from cognitive dissonance historically, the deal was simple: > get good at coding > be compensated well for it > potentially launch a saas & the only marketing you do is talking about new features or product hunt launches that reality is gone
Is this true? Are they all working from home?
sadly, bali builder culture seems to be gone i came back after 8 years, hoping to meet tons of founders working their asses off still remember the @levelsio interview with lex where he was talking about building well into the nights together with @marckohlbrugge and other
🇨🇳 China, 🇵🇾 Paraguay and 🏖️ Uluwatu are having its moment now
📈 Fastest growing digital nomad hotspots of 2026: 1. 🇨🇳 Shenzhen, China (+113%) 2. 🇵🇾 Asuncion, Paraguay (+110%) 3. 🇮🇩 Uluwatu, Indonesia (+108%) 4. 🇻🇳 Da Nang, Vietnam (+105%) 5. 🇨🇳 Shanghai, China (+76%) 6. 🇸🇪 Stockholm, Sweden (+72%) 7. 🇻🇳 Hoi An, Vietnam (+69%) 8. 🇨🇳
View quoted postWatch this account @25YearsAgoLive to follow 9/11 live 25 years ago
President Bush is in Florida today. This morning, he arrived at Emma E. Booker Elementary in Sarasota, and he is now meeting and greeting with the kids.
I am so confused why people don't understand this, I keep getting these replies Don't you get it? Normies don't vibe code, they just ask something like "do my bookkeeping" or "file my tax" or "organize a movie night and send invites" or "generate a flyer for movie night" or "edit my video" They don't ever see code, vibe code, or do anything with code, their AI chat app just does it for them Most of the software layer has already disappeared or will completely disappear for normies Just like building personal homepages permanently disappeared for normies when Facebook launched ~2005 A lot like this picture where functions of individual devices all got replaced with a single device Same happening with apps now
@levelsio As someone who talked to my users They are so so so not technical Like boomers and marketer girlies I cannot image them vibe coding anything But maybe ur right, it’ll just get so good at u won’t need to think thru or problem solve.
View quoted postThe point is that it catches attention (and makes money) and it's controversial as you can see from the 100+ replies in the post below (which catches even more attention) You have to become a master of getting attention in this time Now that building anything has become quite trivial, catching attention is now the most important skill I think He's creative, the opposite of boring, thinks out of the box, isn't scared of controversy and ships fast and so he has the perfect skillset right now All the attention for these projects also funnel back to him (as followers) and his projects (like TrustMRR) which help to increase revenue later 10/10
with all the respect to Marc, can anyone explain whats the point to turn yourself into clown? The guy has enough money, has working profitable products, whats the point to even do that for $20-30k?? Hype ? - well ppl forget about this 10 minutes after they saw it anyway I cant
View quoted postI was wrong I still think it's just an API though and any API can be used as an MCP and in the end they'll just become the same
Thank god MCP is dead Just as useless of an idea as LLMs.txt was It's all dumb abstractions that AI doesn't need because AI's are as smart as humans so they can just use what was already there which is APIs
View quoted postRT Afonso Matos 🇵🇹 For the past 3 weeks, I've been travelling around Poland. I started in Krakow, then went to Wroclaw, and now I'm in Warsaw. I'm completely amazed by how clean, organised and polished all these cities feel. You don't see crazy people on the streets, people behaving strangely like you do in Spain or Italy, for example, or trash on the ground. I cannot emphasise enough how clean everything looks. It's like being in Singapore or Japan. Travelling between cities is also a very pleasant experience. The trains are very comfortable (and again, clean), and they have restaurants on board that actually serve amazing, affordable Polish food! In Warsaw particularly, everybody is very well dressed, and walking around the city centre feels like such an elevated experience. It's crazy that Poland's GDP per capita has more than tripled in dollar terms over the past 20 years. I think people back home still see Poland as a very poor country, but that view is completely outdated now. In Krakow, I also met Italian girls who said they felt so safe walking around. I mentioned I was going to visit Bologna soon, and they joked that I'd only see Pakistani people. Poland has had a huge influx of Ukrainian immigration, and you notice it in Ubers, cafés, bars, etc. But because the culture and religion are similar, it doesn't feel like a big cultural contrast. Well, coming from Portugal, I find people here slightly blunter and ruder, but again, all of this is relative (Brazilians think we're rude, for example), so I suppose you just get used to it. The public transport works flawlessly, and the trains and buses are impeccably clean. Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems Polish people have a stronger sense of civic responsibility when it comes to cleanliness than southern Europeans? Judging by the cities I've visited so far, this does feel like what you'd imagine when somebody says “Europe”. It's super refreshing to be here. I think locals probably take it for granted by now.
He's right Amazon Air (or Prime Air) is down there with the worst airlines in the world in safety record Worse than Pakistan's terrible airline and same fatal odds as Nepal's terrible Yeti Airlines Source: https://airlinelist.com
Amazon Air has roughly 4.4X the major accident rate of global airlines and 18X the fatal accident rate, per departure. Something is seriously wrong with how Amazon is operating. I suspect the model of subcontracting to random tier 3 “airlines” is broken.
View quoted post"That's kinda sad honestly" One thing I learnt in business school is that the market doesn't care about your feelings A famous Austrian economist Schumpeter called it creative destruction "Creative destruction is a process in which new innovations replace and make older innovations obsolete" You have to be constantly changing and adapting to survive creative destruction and many do not, you're just wiped out I think we're in the middle of the biggest economic transition since the Industrial Revolution of 250 years ago
@levelsio @X That's kinda sad honestly. Selling to indiehackers was always a pain and now with AI it's pretty much impossible - everyone is vibecoding their own stuff I hope that larger businesses (most of the market) are just too lazy to do that so that we could sell them our software😄
View quoted postOh for sure I think my only moat left post-AGI is: - https://Nomads.com community + data (now free membership) - Me being on @X with an audience - My https://levels.vc investments The rest will be completely and utterly wiped out with no doubt
@levelsio Aren't you scared that people can vibecode their PhotoAI or InteriorAI, just like you did with these services?
View quoted postI really liked @marckohlbrugge's e-ink screen by @itopinion So I asked Claude Code to make a CSS UI Kit I can use for my sites from the video And it worked!
✨ Here is GPT Image 2.5 vs. GPT Image 2 on Photo AI It's definitely more real and has more resemblance and is also 3x faster 😊 GPT Image 2 uses the reference picture more literally and stitches it into the photo kinda whereas GPT Image 2.5 actually uses it as a reference Very cool
ChatGPT Images 2.5—faster, sharper, smarter, with better tools for creating whatever you can dream of. - Faster image generation to keep your ideas flowing - Improved fidelity for more natural, recognizable images - Consistent details across multiple edits - Comment-based
View quoted postWithout AI inference my profit margin is now 99.4% With AI inference (mostly Photo AI) it goes down to 93%!
Yes, @Cloudflare is oddly well positioned for the AI age because their services are very structural and foundational in nature You really need them and you can't replace them easily and they sell them very affordably (most of Cloudflare is free!)
I use Cloudflare Email Sending to send an email to login with a login link (soon I wanna switch that to a code, more modern) Or Google Login which is free
Because soon everyone can do this I think Lots of things we used to pay SaaS subscriptions for will just be vibe coded by an AI agent/model as part of your project/site/startup Instead of having to sign up to a SaaS for it I always liked this self-sufficient dependency-less way of building things and we're reaching the maximum state of that now
@levelsio Why not SaaS your own solutions as solutions for others? Any one could use your weather API for a few $$/€€ per month for example.
View quoted post✨ I replaced all these SaaS with my own vibe coded now, so about $25,000/mo savings: - Weather API -> My own vibe coded weather service using Norway's meteorology API - Image resizing API -> My own vibe coded image resizing API with NodeJS's Sharp + Redis (saves ~$1,500/mo) - Google Vision NSFW detection -> My own $0/mo vibe coded NSFW detection service with Python's NudeNET (saves ~$2,500/mo) - Cloudflare Streaming -> My own $0/mo Nginx VPS video streaming (saves ~$250/mo) - API Flash -> My own $0/mo screenshot service (for social images) (saves ~$250/mo) - New Relic + IPHub -> My own $0/mo error monitoring, DDOS blocking and fleet management service (called error2telegram) (saves ~$250/mo) - Human moderators -> My own moderation on all my sites with @xAI (saves ~$10,000/mo) - IFTTT -> Telegram bot (saves ~$100/mo) - Photopea as editor inside Photo AI -> Vibe coded my own photo editor (saves ~$100/mo) - Mapbox -> Vibecoded my own free replacement with OpenFreeMaps (saves ~$500/mo) - Uptimerobot -> My own $5/mo Uptime Canary app running on Kuma (saves ~$50/mo) - Ghost blog -> My own $0/mo blog platform - Customer support -> @featurebasehq + AI support bot (saves $5,000/mo) - Scrapingbee/SerpAPI -> My own $1/mo scraper with Patchright (save ~$250/mo) I think I have reached my final limit of replacing my SaaS services as I have these left, but that'd mean becoming an ICANN registrar (I don't want 😁), managing my own email (I don't want), managing my own hard drives at home in a storage (I don't want) and managing my own servers at home too (I don't want) and running my own GPU rig at home (I don't want): - Cloudflare Domains - Cloudflare Email Sending - Cloudflare R2 Storage - Backblaze B2 for backups - Hetzner for all my servers for all my sites (VPS) - xAI for all LLMs for all my sites (so many things like moderation, writing emails, anything)
✨ Okay with lots of help from @javilopen and his Spanish scraping friends I've managed to vibe code my own @Scrapingbee alternative and replace my $249/mo Scrapingbee plan with my own $1/mo scraper running on my VPS! First I tried OpenSERP, an open source project that seems
View quoted postI think for Samsung and LG it's a competitive race to the bottom TVs in Korea are more expensive to produce than in China, but somehow they have to try survive So their idea (well Samsung started it) was to try make money in other ways, like putting ads in their TVs, then the advertisers asked for better targeting so they needed data, so they started tracking what you watch and listening to what you say at home with the microphone and sending it back to their servers It's a race to the bottom and this is stuff you actually DO need regulation for to stop it because they're all competing so without regulation this won't stop because people will just buy the cheaper TV I think
@levelsio Doesn't really make sense, Korean companies aren't known for spying, are they?
View quoted postThis tweet is literally a copy-paste prompt for your clanker to build your own scraper on your VPS btw!
✨ Okay with lots of help from @javilopen and his Spanish scraping friends I've managed to vibe code my own @Scrapingbee alternative and replace my $249/mo Scrapingbee plan with my own $1/mo scraper running on my VPS! First I tried OpenSERP, an open source project that seems
View quoted post✨ Okay with lots of help from @javilopen and his Spanish scraping friends I've managed to vibe code my own @Scrapingbee alternative and replace my $249/mo Scrapingbee plan with my own $1/mo scraper running on my VPS! First I tried OpenSERP, an open source project that seems freshly maintained but it didn't work on my VPS IP or laptop IP and got blocked fast Then I tried to use residential IP proxies from IPRoyal but they were already quite tainted IPs meaning Google already knew they were scrapers and just blocked about 60% of them already, not so great, also didn't work! Then I discovered OpenSERP uses a vanilla headless Chrome, Google instantly detects that and blocks that, so literally the entire repo is useless cause it won't even work? I don't get why they don't say that in the docs? OpenSERP is even worse than just basic CURL, as my AI said: "plain curl got 7% blocked but OpenSERP's headless browser got 100% blocked" So then I just built my own with Playwright and a real Google Chrome on my VPS, headful and persistent context, and slow pacing like every 30 seconds or so And I got some better residential IP recommendations (which I can't tell you because thenhey t stop working!) Now I'm at about 90% success rate, which is similar or better than Scrapingbee And it costs me ~$1/mo (measured by GBs, obviously for text scraping I barely use a lot) instead of the $249/mo I paid Scrapingbee! My only remaining SaaS now are: - Cloudflare Domains - Cloudflare Email Sending - Cloudflare R2 Storage - Backblaze B2 for backups - Hetzner for all my servers for all my sites (VPS) - xAI for all LLMs for all my sites (so many things like moderation, writing emails, anything)
I've tried for weeks now to build my own @ScrapingBee and repeatedly AI has now told me that it can't do it 80% of my scraping is Google SERP results for Hotelist and even with residential IP proxies and solve CAPTCHA services and OpenSERP scraper it won't do it well for
View quoted postI'm in I have no idea how much this will make compared to the previous X creator program I do know everyone who was reposting content or doing AI posting is essentially kicked out permanently because they won't be accepted into the new program That would make the pool of $$$ distributed over much less people and reward real original content (OC) more Interestingly this is kinda like 4chan back in the day where there was a board called /r9k (robot 9000) where it was impossible to post content that had ever been posted before 😁
Signed up!
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View quoted postThanks everyone for recommending me to buy an LG TV two years ago but especially everyone for recommending me to NEVER ever connect it to the internet But instead to get an Apple TV and connect that with HDMI to the LG TV I knew LG TVs were full of spyware but it's even worse than everyone thought! You're 100% safe though if you never connect it to the internet
I need to buy a TV but I don't want ads and tracking and rly hate smart TVs? What do you recommend? I guess I can just give it no internet and plug in an Apple TV in it to kill its onboard OS?
View quoted postRT Jon Yongfook Just spent a week in Okinawa and it’s easy to see why they live so long. Bitter gourd and sea grapes are ubiquitous, you eat them every day. Nutrient dense and low calorie. Beef and pork are both high quality, Okinawa is famous for Ishigaki and Motobu wagyu and Agu pork. The pork in particular was the best I’ve had. Like the rest of Japan, meals are balanced. Modest carbs, fermented vegetables, soup. Even my hotel breakfast was the healthiest I’ve had at a hotel in a long time. That plus the fairly laid back lifestyle compared to mainland Japan, with beautiful beaches, no heavy traffic, warm weather all year round. Could see myself living here.
RT RuaninhoBR - Hardware e Tecnologia Screenshots do Red Dead Redemption 2 usando DLSS 5 (2X render) no modo Qualidade, em 4K com os gráficos todos no máximo possível. RTX 4090 + Ryzen 7 9800X3D
Congrats!!! And it's great to see this perpetual ☃️ snowball happening Back in 2013, I was inspired by @patio11 @yongfook @johnonolan @jenniferdewalt @sivers @Shpigford and they made me believe I could also make money on the internet The more people try the better, and especially with AI now I'd say anyone can try, and non-technical people with the best ideas, creativity/taste and understanding of whatever cultural zeitgeist we're in can win There's an illusion here though that anyone will make it, which I've never portrayed to be true, entrepreneurship is one of the most challenging endeavours, kinda like pro sports With bootstrapping more can win though because the goalpost can be much lower than for ex VC startups. You can make $5K/mo and be able to quit your 9 to 5 job and have a better life But you can also go big and even raise VC later to go really big later like $ billions Anyway it's great to keep the snowball rolling and get more people to try!
Today is a special day for me. I've made $3M with my 36 startups. Solo. 85% margin. Bootstrapped. It took 10 years, and I loved every second of it. After failing as an entrepreneur for 5 years, I got a job in 2021. That's when I discovered @levelsio's journey and decided to
The smartest people I know have strong opinions weakly held and change them when new information arises The dumbest people I know keep their opinions the same just so they can remain consistent Time changes too fast try remain consistent, better to sail the waves to wherever they are taking you!
a good reminder that just because someone states their opinion with intense conviction, does not make it fact. they can come back a year later and state the absolute opposite view with the same conviction.
View quoted postGreat idea so I added it to https://hotelist.com Hoodmaps tags inside the map so you can book a hotel in the right place 😊
kinda funny to plan a trip and then you realize the extension you made still works and is actually really useful. shoutout @levelsio!
✨ Added an MCP and API endpoint now http://nomads.com/mcp http://nomads.com/api They operate pretty much the same but one you can put in your clanker! You can also add trips via POST on /api/trips or via /mcp, which is nice because it's a lot of work to add all your old trips to your profile! Agent ready 😊
🎒After a decade, I have made https://nomads.com free for everyone now! Well almost free, it's $1 to sign up to avoid getting lots of spam The reason is 1) I have made enough money (from it) 2) charging for a community artificially limits the size, if you put the price at
Already lots of fun stuff happening since I announced https://nomads.com is free This guy used AI to convert his photo library location data into trips history on his Nomads profile!
1064 new members since this announcement Welcome everyone to https://nomads.com! 👋😊
🎒After a decade, I have made https://nomads.com free for everyone now! Well almost free, it's $1 to sign up to avoid getting lots of spam The reason is 1) I have made enough money (from it) 2) charging for a community artificially limits the size, if you put the price at
RT Aporia That's what being a post-money founder looks like. You stop optimising for money but instead focus on scale / relevance / cultural influence (and maybe eventually status/power). And weirdly that can make the underlying thing much bigger. Cause you become your own VC, making asymmetric bets with your accumulated capital: you can kill the paywall, maximise network growth and figure monetisation out later. The big advantage of succeeding with cash-generative businesses (like Peter did) is eventually having enough money to make those venture-style bets yourself, while still keeping 100% of the company (no dilution, no external investors, all the upside still yours if it works). IMO that's one of the most underrated things money buys ambitious founders. Not retirement, but the ability to build things that don't need to make money immediately.
🎒After a decade, I have made https://nomads.com free for everyone now! Well almost free, it's $1 to sign up to avoid getting lots of spam The reason is 1) I have made enough money (from it) 2) charging for a community artificially limits the size, if you put the price at
People spend a lot of time building entire multi agent systems for themselves so they can just write an idea and their agents build entire apps for them And they call those software factories?
I went to a Korean bath house in LA on a Saturday Well I actually stayed for days there cause it was the cheapest way to stay in LA This was 2017 I think it was like $30/night and it had a restaurant inside and a place to work on my laptop in this big massage chair so it was perfect for a digital nomad like Baths were fully naked but that's fine, they were that in Korea too Mo-Fr it was mostly Korean(-American?) families, some white people Then Saturday I came to the baths and it was all big and small gay men staring at me (and each other) When I showered one guy was peeking over the gate looking at me One even asked for my number! Nobody harassed me though they were respectful but it was a bit of a shock the bath house had turned into a full gay meetup spot Just on Saturdays though I hadn't made the connection, bath houses and saunas in America are gay hookup spots, I knew Korean spas (jimjilbangs) from living in Korea and they were normal 😂
guy in the gym asked if i was going in the sauna later. what weird ass question is that
View quoted postI've tried for weeks now to build my own @ScrapingBee and repeatedly AI has now told me that it can't do it 80% of my scraping is Google SERP results for Hotelist and even with residential IP proxies and solve CAPTCHA services and OpenSERP scraper it won't do it well for thousands of queries, it just gets blocked So I will keep paying them $99/mo A good test to see what services might remain now AGI is here My only remaining SaaS now are: - Cloudflare Domains - Cloudflare Email Sending - Cloudflare R2 Storage (for Photo AI mostly and Litestream DB backups) - Backblaze B2 for backups - Hetzner for all my servers for all my sites (VPS) - xAI for all LLMs for all my sites (so many things like moderation, writing emails, anything) - Scrapingbee
This but seriously
After @OpenAI Astra’s release yesterday scoring 99.9% on the ARC-AGI-3 benchmark, I think it’s become clear that AGI is no longer some distant hypothetical. About 15 minutes after the benchmarks came out, I booked the first flight I could find to Jackson Hole. I’ve now decided
It's hard to avoid hotels that limit AC even outside Europe (this one was in South Korea for ex) because: 1) they're European or American brands that have ESG (environmental/sustainable) 2) countries like Singapore and Korea are increasingly infected with the degrowth eco mindvirus too The answer is to travel to pro-growth countries like US, China, Vietnam, Japan, Qatar, UAE, Greece, Turkey and Brazil, and boycott degrowth countries Their ACs are in my experience very powerful and very cold
@Hilton why is your aircon not dropping blow 20°c ? Really expected more from an American brand. Especially a premium Doubletree Hotel - dying in here 🥵
Added profiles now
Ok I had a new idea to self improve the video feed: Anyome can like videos by tapping the screen (it sends hearts like Periscope used to) The likes go to the user who prompted the video as 🌟 karma Users with higher karma get more priority in the queue So better videos
View quoted postThese will literally save 1,190,000 traffic deaths per year if implented worldwide
The future of transport is safer, more enjoyable & gives you more time back With theater, music & gaming apps on a 22" touchscreen, Cybercab offers you a space to be productive or unwind Soon to be equipped with V5 Starlink hardware, too, for complete connectivity
View quoted postRT Thomas Ricouard Astra is very good at 3D modeling, and I can't wait for all of you to experience it, for now here is a little walkthrough on how I built the demo house for our launch blog post. From a Blender scene to a Unreal Engine 5 walkable experience. 🧵
RT Kevin Tale I built a 3D cinema for Infinite Slop. You walk in, pick a seat and watch the stream on the big screen with everyone else in the room. Multiplayer, spatial audio, free, no account. Just opened: https://slop.theater/ Powered by @levelsio's https://infiniteslop.ai
https://Hotelist.com has found some type of market fit Maintaining traffic even if I don't talk about it and also having lots of MCP usage Actually 60% is MCP usage! Will investigate, I hope it's real usage and not scraping
Same It seems Claude prioritizes servers when it goes down? Another reason to run it on your VPS and not laptop
@levelsio Claude is not working on my laptop. It is working on my server. Very odd.
View quoted post100% accurate Portugal could have been the Silicon Valley of Europe, they had all the tech founders from US visiting ~2020 as tourists, then as potential residents who could move their businesses to Portugal or open branch offices here and apply to the NHR program (which was a great idea) The wealth that would flow into the country and the jobs created would be massive and their GDP could have more than tripled over 10 years Portugal's GDP per capita would have been $100,000/year now, and Portuguese would be rich and high tech But instead Portugal collectively decided they wanted to remain relatively poor and technologically and intellectually behind Portugal's choice is cultural though and completely fits the general spirit in Europe which is fully anti-tech, anti-AI, anti-entrepreneurship, anti-business and anti-progress The biggest fumble in Portugal's history after losing Brazil I think
Portugal is the country that had the largest opportunity of the last twenty years: it attracted essentially la crème de la crème of tech. Incredible place. It would have had all the conditions to be the #1 place in Europe for many if only it had been able to offer a reliable
View quoted postShould this guy use a leash on his dog? I put the tweet in the poll you can click it
💰 New price for Minimax H3 Max dropped $0.0125/s*60s*60m*24h*30.5d=$32,940/mo Meaning if you can make more than that with a perpetual AI live stream, you're profitable! I'm at $15K/mo revenue now so I need just one more advertiser and I'm profitable!
@aollivier82 @levelsio it actually costs $864 with the new price :) $0.01 * 60 * 60 * 24 = $864. less than $1K
View quoted post153,000,000 American driver licenses leaked in KYC hack This is 63% of all American driver licenses In US driver licenses function as valid government-issues photo IDs https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/09/fbi-probes-service-selling-153m-drivers-licenses/
I'm not sending anyone my passport anymore My Portuguese lawyer wanted me to email her a copy of my passport for KYC I rejected and she was confused "I've never been hacked" 99% of people are not aware any account probably can and will be hacked on a long enough timespan The
View quoted postRT Jason Rink Infinite Slop has almost 7,000 viewers rn 🤯
Okay I built it! 🍰 Infinite Slop https://levels.io/infinite-slop An infinite and interactive AI generated live stream of slop that goes on forever and ever Anything that you write in the chat is generated next and AI will try to connect it to the previous video so there's an actual
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