# @levelsio (Pieter Levels)

> Bootstrapping startups while traveling the world. Personal blog of Pieter Levels (@levelsio): 911 published posts on building bootstrapped internet startups solo, AI, travel and living as a digital nomad since 2013.

All content here is public. Posts are @levelsio's own writing — please link back if you quote them.

Last updated: 2026-10-12 (most recent post). This file is generated live, so it always reflects what is published right now.

## About

Hi. I’m @levelsio and you’ve found my blog!

I build internet startups by myself: Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI. All bootstrapped without funding and just me coding everything on my laptop.

Since 2013 I write here about building businesses, traveling the world, AI and whatever else is on my mind.

Recurring themes: bootstrapping over fundraising, shipping fast and in public, remote work and visas, AI as a tool for solo builders, Europe vs Asia and the US, air conditioning and degrowth politics, health and training, and living deliberately with few possessions. I post opinions with radical honesty and publish revenue numbers openly.

## Machine-readable access

- [JSON API index](https://levels.io/api): what the API offers
- [All posts](https://levels.io/api/posts): every post as JSON, newest first. Filters: `?tag=`, `?since=YYYY-MM-DD`, `?q=` (title search), `?limit=` & `?offset=`
- [One post](https://levels.io/api/posts/{slug}): metadata plus markdown, html and text
- Plain formats: `/api/posts/{slug}.md`, `.txt`, `.html`
- [Tags](https://levels.io/api/tags): every tag with a post count
- [MCP server](https://levels.io/mcp): Model Context Protocol over HTTP (JSON-RPC 2.0). Read-only tools: `search_posts`, `get_post`, `list_tags`
- [RSS](https://levels.io/rss) and [long-form RSS](https://levels.io/rss/longform)

Please be gentle: the API is rate limited and uncached. Prefer `/api/posts` once over fetching every slug individually.

## Pages

- [Home — every post, newest first](https://levels.io/)
- [Projects — everything @levelsio has built since 1996](https://levels.io/projects)
- [Stats — posting history, tags, followers, subscribers](https://levels.io/stats)
- [All tags](https://levels.io/tags)
- [Ask me anything — AI chat over the blog](https://levels.io/ama)
- [levels.vc — angel investments and AI fund](https://levels.vc)

## Main topics

Tech, Society, Entrepreneurship, Travel, Analysis, Europe, Stuff I made, AI, eu/acc, Future, Asia, Economics

## Recent posts

- [I'd expand the moats left to proprietary data, network effects, distribution, hardware, capital, and regulation](https://levels.io/moats-left-data-network-capital) — 2026-10-12
- [I've cancelled almost all my SaaS subscriptions and now my money only goes to content, data centers, power and governments](https://levels.io/cancelled-saas-money-goes-to) — 2026-10-11
- [Software is dead and it's now the era of personal software](https://levels.io/era-of-personal-software) — 2026-10-11
- [Normies won't know they're building software because their AI will do it for them](https://levels.io/normies-ai-builds-software-for-them) — 2026-10-11
- [Everyone will mostly use personal ephemeral software inside AI chat apps](https://levels.io/personal-ephemeral-software-ai-apps) — 2026-10-11
- [I discovered that thousands of bots monitor every new link posted on X](https://levels.io/bots-monitor-new-links-on-x) — 2026-10-08
- [Airbnb removes guest reviews whenever a host asks and that will destroy trust](https://levels.io/airbnb-review-removal-destroys-trust) — 2026-10-06
- [I will keep buying scarce coastal and mountain land with clean air](https://levels.io/post-agi-scarce-land-thesis) — 2026-10-06
- [I analyzed booking site ratings and Yelp is the only one with a distribution you can trust](https://levels.io/booking-site-ratings-yelp-most-honest) — 2026-10-05
- [I made hotelist.com to fix Airbnb's 4.5 to 5.0 rating scale](https://levels.io/hotelist-fixes-airbnb-ratings) — 2026-10-05
- [Javier Milei is offering full Argentinean citizenship for $350,000](https://levels.io/milei-argentinean-citizenship-350000) — 2026-10-04
- [City states are attracting skilled Europeans with better living, working and regulatory conditions](https://levels.io/city-states-attracting-skilled-europeans) — 2026-10-03
- [It's such a weird experience that I can now build things faster than I get new ideas](https://levels.io/build-faster-than-new-ideas) — 2026-10-02
- [Westerners keep having lower standards every year and don't notice the declining quality of everything around them](https://levels.io/declining-quality-standards-in-the-west) — 2026-10-01
- [An Apple Store in Dubai leaves Apple Watches lying freely by the open door](https://levels.io/dubai-apple-store-high-trust) — 2026-10-01