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Pieter Levels Makes $600k a Year from Nomad List and Remote OK

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Re: Pieter Levels Makes $600k a Year from Nomad List and Remote OK

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Post by herrgigglung »

langitbiru wrote: post #12

I'm collecting these kind of success stories (without the helping from VC). The other story which is very inspiring as well is the Tailwind CSS ( https://adamwathan.me/tailwindcss-from-side-project-byproduc... )

I met a guy travelling in South Africa / Namibia in 2013 who had two web businesses (https://www.replacementkeys.co.uk/ and InternetRadio.com). Had No Degree, just self taught / on the job training. He had written most of his stuff in Perl :o! Similar philosophy to this to Pieter Levels!

Re: Pieter Levels Makes $600k a Year from Nomad List and Remote OK

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Post by krapp »

christophilus wrote: post #14
BoorishBears wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you don't get why the fact a high successful venture is using such a barebones tech stack is not noteworthy, you must be following a different tech industry than I am

I mostly follow HN, a successful tech forum that is written in a single lisp file and runs on a single server. It’s not surprising to find successful projects run with a simple stack. The opposite is more surprising.

Any application can be said to be written in a single file if you ignore all of the libraries and just dump everything else into a single file, HN included. That's not a rational measure of simplicity, elegance or efficiency.

Re: Pieter Levels Makes $600k a Year from Nomad List and Remote OK

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Post by Pete-Codes »

cblconfederate wrote: post #7

Levels is quite transparent about how to build and monetize communities. I 'd expect he 'll receive a lot of hate if blogs like this make him a posterchild about "making money without a degree". He is talented, which the blog fails to mention, not everyone with or without a CS degree is talented. I also like his opinionated approach of not engagint with haters.

Actually, he sent a DM to say he liked the article.

I would re-think talent. Pieter works hard.

Talent can lead you to think people are born to be successful.

Pieter just works hard. Work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard.

Re: Pieter Levels Makes $600k a Year from Nomad List and Remote OK

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Post by Pete-Codes »

spiderfarmer wrote: post #15
break_the_bank wrote: post #5

Link to tweet by Pieter where he mentions monthly revenue that totals to $1m/year [0] His entire empire runs on one VPS that costs him just $320 a month. [0] https://mobile.twitter.com/levelsio/status/11340898562654945...

My (smaller) 'empire' runs comfortably on 3 VPS servers because I have more media and data IO, but that also totals around 400k. It's amazing what you can do with VPS servers when compared to 15 years ago.

Good to know!

Re: Pieter Levels Makes $600k a Year from Nomad List and Remote OK

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Post by Pete-Codes »

langitbiru wrote: post #12

I'm collecting these kind of success stories (without the helping from VC). The other story which is very inspiring as well is the Tailwind CSS ( https://adamwathan.me/tailwindcss-from-side-project-byproduc... )

If you don't know it already, indiehackers.com is awesome - especially the podcast

Re: Pieter Levels Makes $600k a Year from Nomad List and Remote OK

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Post by skrebbel »

BrianOnHN wrote: post #17
deltron3030 wrote: post #16

He didn't just develop an app, but an entire movement.

Which movement was that?

I think GP is referring to digital nomads. Pieter didn't start that for sure, but I can imagine more people took the dive because of Nomad List + Pieter's open and honest sharing about his own digital nomad life.

Re: Pieter Levels Makes $600k a Year from Nomad List and Remote OK

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Post by jermaustin1 »

krapp wrote: post #22
christophilus wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mostly follow HN, a successful tech forum that is written in a single lisp file and runs on a single server. It’s not surprising to find successful projects run with a simple stack. The opposite is more surprising.

Any application can be said to be written in a single file if you ignore all of the libraries and just dump everything else into a single file, HN included. That's not a rational measure of simplicity, elegance or efficiency.

What the parent and original post seem to be implying is that simplicity, efficiency, tech stack (or lack there of), isn't what drives success in a business, it is instead the customers paying.

Sure having a modern infrastructure that is able to process thousands of requests per second is better than something that can only do a few hundred, but if you strip out a bunch of excess requests, you will process less per user, and thus reach the same level of scale on a less efficient stack.

Re: Pieter Levels Makes $600k a Year from Nomad List and Remote OK

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Post by skrebbel »

pieterhg wrote: post #11
brainless wrote: post #4

I am a solo founder and I recently saw the post of solo founder persistence, which I am yet to read in full. Pieter is one of those that can consistently deliver. He has been doing that for years now. I admire him and what he does, yet I know I can not. I am plagued by mental, emotional issues that break my routine every few months. I started focusing on perseverance and I am happy with where I am now. There is still…

Hey :) you should see my brain and discover what I'm plagued by! I struggle with moderate anxiety and depression on and off too and esp this year has been quite hard. Work is quite therapeutical for me because it keeps me creative, active and have goals. It keeps me on the rails really. Daily creative stuff to work on. My dad does the same as he's always renovating the house, doing woodworking, or studying film histo…

I know this doesn't help you a single bit wrt depression, but anyway: I'm sure I'm not the only entrepreneur you're an inspiration for. I have a tendency to overengineer things, and I find that thinking "what would Pieter Levels do?" helps me get my feet back on the ground :-)

Godspeed and I hope that someday you'll grow over the worst parts of those mental issues.

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