π° Only 4 out of 70+ projects I ever did made money and grew
π >95% of everything I ever did failed
π My hit rate is only about ~5%
π So...ship more
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PhotoAI.com $82K MRR
InteriorAI.com $60K MRR
NomadList.com $43K/m
RemoteOK.com $50K/m
Rebase.co $8K/m
t.me/levelsio $4K/m@levelsioβs posts
I just saw a garbage truck that picked up Barcelona trash boxes with just one driver no other people
Amazing π
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New York: the only possible way to manage garbage is to dump it on the street in sacks for the rats to eat. Anything else is impossible. Our city is so old and complicated!
Florence: STFU
"So why do you have a sticker over your webcam?"
Readers added context
This is a currently a bug within MacOS, users using these versions got a notification warning them about the false output, the webcam is not being used. Furthermore if the webcam gets used by anything on the computer the light next to the webcam always turns on.
support.apple.com/en-us/HT211148β¦.
β Made a CASIO watch face for my Apple Watch
You can import the 2nd pic into Widgy to install it to your Apple Watch
apps.apple.com/pt/app/widgy-w
Nobody talks about how a $1,000,000 mortgage costs you $1,217,160 in interest payments ON TOP of the $1,000,000 in loan payments on a house
You pay $2,217,160 to borrow $1,000,000!
BuT REnTIng IS THrowIng away MONeY
mortgagecalculator.org
π΄ Bali has banned single-use plastics such as π plastic bags, but already there's an alternative:
This "plastic" bag is made from π₯ cassava (a root vegetable).
It's 100% bio-degradable, feels like latex, and dissolves in water.
οΏ½?π© Made in Indonesia
avanieco.com
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PhotoAI.com is now almost 14,000 lines of raw PHP mixed with inline HTML, CSS in <style> and raw JS in <script> tags
I did not use TS, flexbox or frameworks except jQuery
A lot of $.ajax() and float:left though
It has 1,872 paying customers making $61,808 per month
I had a gut feeling but now I proved it:
People now have A.I. bots running that use ChatGPT to automatically reply to people's tweets π€―
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It's interesting to see how the lifestyles of nomadic individuals have changed over time.
Whether you enjoy trying new foods and experiences or prefer to stick to familiar routines, the most important thing is to have fun and make the most of your travels.
My biggest idea people aren't ready for is 2 dishwashers:
You use one for dirty dishes
You use the other one as storage for clean dishes
Take cups/plates, use them, after put back in dirty dishwasher, wash, now that dishwasher becomes the clean storage
Get rid of cupboards
RemoteOK.io is a single PHP file called "index.php" generating $65,651 this month. No frameworks. No libraries (except jQuery). π
(SGD 89,415=USD 65,651)
The first trillion dollar βcompanyβ wonβt be Apple or Google, instead itβs Norwayβs Oil Fund which just passed $1 trillion USD!
Itβs fully owned by Norwayβs citizens, of which each owns $192,000. Every year Norway can withdraw 3% which is $30 billion.
And we have reached the end of the cycle where 1995 cubicles are becoming cool again
Took 28 years
I am convinced trends somehow happen in 7 year periods
1995-2002 cubicles good
2009-2016 cubicles bad -> open offices good
2016-2023 open offices annoying
2023-2030 open officesβ¦
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I think the secret of Portugal is to leave Lisbon as fast as possible
Lisbon is way too busy, too cramped, loud cars, stressed people, low quality of service
Outside Lisbon you can find spots that are paradise with space, calmth, sea breeze and happy ppl
Portuguese know this
Actionable marketing item for anyone to do today:
- Install TikTok iOS app
- Search your industry hashtag
- Make a list of 30 people who post about it with 100K+ views
- Find their contacts
- Pay them $100-$300 to post a video about your app/site/thing
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Frequent advice to indie hackers is βdo more marketing.β
Thatβs vague and impossible to act on.
So, whatβs one *actionable* marketing item an indie hacker can do today?
Only losers go to networking events
The only people you'll meet at events are people who want something from you or aren't meaningfully engaged in a pursuit of their own
The easiest way to meet interesting people is by having accomplished something yourself
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An Essay: Be Interesting
Generally, I wouldn't say I like meeting new people. It's not that I'm antisocial or anything. I just value my energy more than others. Most people aren't worth the energy to meet. They're not interesting people.
I find the gap between interestingβ¦
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Devs on Twitter when I say I code in PHP
pic.twitter.com/J2tIa99cVe
I'd rather spend $3000 on someone who can use it than wasting it on Twitter ads, so here we go
πNew Year's GiveawayπΎ
I'm giving away a new πMacBook Pro 16" to a random person who retweets this tweet
π©βπ¨ Make something cool w/ it
(you have to follow because I want followers)
index.php is BACK
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π I'm going to give one random person that retweets this $10,000. Because Iβd rather spend my ad budget on you than BigTech
π©βπ» I'm trying to promote my site Remote OK which helps you find a remote job so you don't need to go back to the office
π Thx!
π§π· Invested in Brazil now because I think Brazil is a good investment after traveling here for a month with my gf
My TL;DR of Brazil after a month is:
π people are positive, friendly, ambitious, excited for the future
π¦Ύ tech in daily life here is way more modern than most ofβ¦
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I bought a MacBook adaptor yesterday in Brazil at official Apple Store
Rest of world price: ~$99
Brazil price: $220
100% convinced this is bad for Brazil because the import taxes are an anomaly compared to other countries
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The tax on technology in Brazil is absolutely insane.
I had a friend from Brazil visit me in NYC recently. He flew here to buy a Macbook.
It was cheaper for him to buy a round-trip ticket to NYC, buy the laptop here, and fly back than it was to buy it in Brazil.
WTF?
β¨ From August this year, πͺπΊ the European Union will require ALL job postings to show a salary range π
#OpenSalaries
Translated: performa--hr-nl.translate.goog/nieuws/salaris
π€ I asked AI to make a video on how to become a digital nomad
AI script written by ChatGPT
Video edited by
AI video and voice by
Put together with
Took ~5 minutes!
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If you want to get a free MBA in 5 minutes: in this thread I will TL;DR what I learnt in business school
It took 4 years to get here, but we did it:
$83,333+/mo revenue
π³ 11,996 customers
πΈ 740 payments/mo
π€ 208 cron jobs
𧧠$115 avg payment
π 2 apps: nomadlist.com + remoteok.io
π¦ 1 VPS
π« 0 ad budget
π° 0 funding
($83k is β¨special because * 12 is $1M)
π₯© π Eating clean and ποΈββοΈ lifting weights / exercise has completely evaporated any depression or anxiety I had left
And I used to have A LOT of anxiety and depression!
Mostly I only eat this:
- steak / chicken thigh / salmon (airfryer)
- br sprouts / green leafy veg /β¦
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This your annual reminder that a 100% free browser version of Photoshop exists called photopea.com
0:30
β¨ Added [ π Try on ] mode to PhotoAI.com
You can now upload π clothes and your π¦Ύ AI model will wear them for you
Great for sellers who have products and need model shots but don't want to spend $1000s
(only $29/mo, so at least 30x cheaper)
Remote != working from home
Remote = working wherever you work best, that could be in an office, a cafe, a coworking space, your bed, a ski resort cabin etc.
Keep seeing this mistake everywhere twitter.com/timbu/status/1
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Guy in sauna to me: beudkdfj tdofk
me: sorry what
Guy: brudjd tofk
Me: ingles?
Guy: it is catalan
Me: ok i dont speak but i speak portuguese
Guy: in catalunya we speak catalan you have to understand it
Me; i am literally a tourist
Guy: it is important you speak catalan
It ironically gives me so much trust in that they don't over engineer emails like this
They don't even number_format() the $306.6470857 to $306.65
I'm not joking, I think that's a positive signal, they're shipping fast and not caring about small details like this
β¨ Sold $100,000 (USD) in AI-generated avatars with AvatarAI.me since launching 10 days ago!
π³ 2,943 sales @ avg of $33 per sale
π AMA
Today I learnt why national postal services are SO bad at delivering packages and Amazon is so good
Yesterday a CTT (Portugal's national postal service) driver rang my door, waited literally 5 seconds, went back to his car and drove off, I would've never had enough time to openβ¦
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Did you know πΊπΈ Americaβs red/white stripes come from οΏ½?π© Indonesia?
The 16th century οΏ½?π© Indonesian empire of Majapahit had a flag of 9 vertical red white stripes
The East India Company took it and embedded the π¬π§ UK flag in top left
which then became πΊπΈ Americaβs flag
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We need some data on this because almost nobody I know in Asia wants to move to America
Generally not regarded as such a great place to live anymore like it used to be 10-20y ago
Asia more modern and more opportunities now
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I asked a Chinese friend what percent of highly educated Chinese 25 year olds would move to America if someone handed them a free green card, and he said 90%. That surprised me. Apparently lockdown made everyone fear for the future under Xi.
ππ‘ I asked GPT4 which countries you should invest in real estate
It analyzed 250,000+ trips from Nomad List over the last 10 years with GPT 4's new Data Analysis feature to find the fastest growing places to invest
I just uploaded a CSV with timestamp, city, country!
Easiest hack to save LOTS of money nobody is doing is registering as a company, itβs not hard
You can expense the stuff you buy for your work like laptop, flights, coworking rent, even coffee if you work in cafe, get sales tax (6-21%) back for purchases
You pay only corp taxβ¦
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1. Create 19 million fake users in db
2. Raise $200M in VC funding
3. ????
4. PROFIT!!!
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Abraham Shafi is the millennial cofounder of IRL, an app less than 3 years old that's worth $1.1 billion. Here are his 3 strategies for scaling and leading. businessinsider.com/irl-abraham-sh
β¨ The most important presentation of my life:
Turning π side projects into π° profitable startups
Everything I learnt in the last 4 years building startups in 60 minutes
π‘ Idea
π Build
π Launch
π± Grow
π° Monetize
π€ Automate
πͺ Exit
Full video π youtube.com/watch?v=6reLWf
2:14
π₯΅ Europeans in 2030 because they don't want to install ACs
vs
π Rest of world in 2030
Every single Google launch in AI is without a link to a functioning product
Just a press release or white paper
They're miles ahead in AI tech, galaxies behind in actually shipping a working product
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1/ In 2021, we shared next-gen language + conversation capabilities powered by our Language Model for Dialogue Applications (LaMDA). Coming soon: Bard, a new experimental conversational #GoogleAI service powered by LaMDA.
blog.google/technology/ai/
