Pieter Levels

Pieter Levels

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Indie maker and entrepreneur; creator of Nomad List and Remote OK (remote work platforms)

Streamlining to ~20 Essential SaaS Providers
SocialMay 12, 2026

Streamlining to ~20 Essential SaaS Providers

Wavespeed for GPU (Photo AI + Interior AI) Cloudflare for R2 storage and domain renewal xAI for LLM AI API for all my sites Backblaze for backups Hetzner for VPS Scrapingbee for scraping (mostly for Hotelist) Google Cloud (also for Hotelist) NameCheap (for like 4 domains left...

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New Mutual‑follow Filter Slashes Bots, yet Still Flawed
SocialMay 11, 2026

New Mutual‑follow Filter Slashes Bots, yet Still Flawed

I love @X's new feature to only allow "accounts you follow and who they follow" because it just cuts AI bot replies down to zero Problem is it doesn't always work for everyone it seems, this guy for example is followed...

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Claude Code Runs on Basic VPS, but Cheap Plans Lag
SocialMay 11, 2026

Claude Code Runs on Basic VPS, but Cheap Plans Lag

I think it's fine, Claude Code is just a front end that makes requests to Claude's servers so it should work on basic VPS too, but you can try

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Sysco's European Counterparts: Metro, Makro, Sodexo, Brakes
SocialMay 10, 2026

Sysco's European Counterparts: Metro, Makro, Sodexo, Brakes

If you wanna know what all the Americans are talking about when they say Sysco making all the food in restaurants now and then restaurants heat it up We have exactly the same in Europe but it's called Metro and also...

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High Costs and Culture Fuel Ambition in US, China
SocialMay 10, 2026

High Costs and Culture Fuel Ambition in US, China

The only 2 places where I felt ambition like this are the US and China Nomad hubs like Bali and Thailand are nice but often people there get stuck coasting at $5K MRR because it's just cheaper to live there, so...

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Games Have Turned Into Passive Movie Experiences
SocialMay 10, 2026

Games Have Turned Into Passive Movie Experiences

I keep saying this but modern video games have become movies, they're not interactive anymore and there's hardly any challenge to win at all This game is very symbolic of that because literally all you do is hold a button for...

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EU Alexa Lagging Behind, Users Seek Home Assistant LLM
SocialMay 9, 2026

EU Alexa Lagging Behind, Users Seek Home Assistant LLM

My Alexa (in Europe) is so retarded, like literally half the things it doesn't understand or does wrong Like you say "Alexa play casa de bamba" and it starts playing casablanca by a Moroccan rapper? Dafuq? The model is so bad and...

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Eggs Boost Choline, Cut Anxiety, Build Muscle
SocialMay 9, 2026

Eggs Boost Choline, Cut Anxiety, Build Muscle

Eat more eggs (has choline) and you stop being anxious Also great protein for your muscles (6g per egg) My friend @rameerez went from skinny to ripped just eating eggs all day for a year, his fridge looked something like this https://t.co/3bjG6GqpAU

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Low‑Res TVs Amplified Facial Expressions, 4K Dampens Them
SocialMay 8, 2026

Low‑Res TVs Amplified Facial Expressions, 4K Dampens Them

I think it's due to video resolution When Jim Carrey got famous in the 1990s, the average TV was 720×480 (480i) Now 4K is the standard, which is 3840×2160 If you exaggerate your facial features on a blurry small low resolution TV, you...

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Run 5M‑monthly‑visitor Sites for Just $5/Month
SocialMay 8, 2026

Run 5M‑monthly‑visitor Sites for Just $5/Month

So @loaibassam asked me my stack recently, I replied: FREE: Nginx web server on Ubuntu (free) Auto upgrade with unattended-upgrade (free) Scheduled workers with Cron (free) Vanilla PHP for site backend (free) Vanilla CSS (free) Vanilla JS for code (free) Game servers I do in vanilla Node JS...

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Claude Code's Downtime Reveals Frustrating Unreliability
SocialMay 7, 2026

Claude Code's Downtime Reveals Frustrating Unreliability

Something going on with my Claude Code right now, it just took my site down (second time in 12 months, good score), couldn't fix it by itself, I had to manually fix it, I did within 5 seconds, so that's...

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Staying Solo Keeps Creative Control and Authentic Content
SocialMay 7, 2026

Staying Solo Keeps Creative Control and Authentic Content

One thing I see is the moment YouTubers built big teams and stop doing things themselves things go wrong fast It's better to just DIY and solo it and keep control of your narrative, I like how PewDiePie always did that I...

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Lock Down Your VPS with Outbound Cloudflare Tunnel
SocialMay 6, 2026

Lock Down Your VPS with Outbound Cloudflare Tunnel

New fun thing I did to secure my VPS even further I installed @Cloudflare Tunnel, many of you recommended me this I already had 443 inbound firewall limited to Cloudflare's IP range, but this is even better Cloudflare Tunnel is outbound, which means...

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Unifi Router's Ad Blocker Unreliable, Blocks Entire Pages
SocialMay 6, 2026

Unifi Router's Ad Blocker Unreliable, Blocks Entire Pages

I love my Unifi router by ad blocking is so oddly buggy It never actually blocked any ad, then today it blocked an entire page, then I added that domain to the allow list but it keeps blocking it Interesting... https://t.co/le5qpUC87P

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