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Post #2914 655
Congrats!!!

And it's great to see this perpetual ☃️ snowball happening

Back in 2013, I was inspired by @patio11 @yongfook @johnonolan @jenniferdewalt @sivers @Shpigford @dhh @jasonfried 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!

𝕏 @marclou: https://x.com/marclou/status/2096911867516252385

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Post #2912 730
🎒After a decade, I have made http://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 $299 you get 50 new members per month, at $99 you get 200 people, at $29 you get 400 people, etc.

And this always annoyed me, I don't want to put a limit but I had to, to be able to make money from it, so it's free now

I want it to be it the biggest community for digital nomads, world travelers, sovereign thinkers and network state type people

For years it has has a great sponsor with @SafetyWing and I think that's maybe a better model for the future, get much more people in and then just add more sponsors

Right now for the record it has 43,252 paid members (so about 300/mo for 12 years!), so it will be interesting to see what it can grow too

I think now that AGI is on the horizon (or some say already here), online and offline (IRL) communities will become really important. People are talking more to AI now than to humans, and there was already a loneliness epidemic before AI

Making new friends and dating is not so easy for people now. And with remote work and entrepreneurship, people lack a space like an office where people would usually make friends or meet partners

I made most of the friends I have now through traveling and living around the world for the last 10+ years (and many via my site too), and I also met my girlfriend through those friends! So I think communities can have a real role in that post-AGI

Post-AGI business wise, communities also have a moat where many of my SaaS apps do not. So there is some urgency I feel to make Nomads in to the best community there is for those people. But that's why I have to remove any limitations to its growth now

So in a way after 12 years I am switching to the subsidized VC model a bit, but still 100% bootstrapped, kinda like "You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain"

Having enough money now I can afford to do these things and figure out the business model later, which I think will be more sponsors

Enjoy and please sign up and tell me what to improve!!! 😊

𝕏 @levelsio: https://x.com/levelsio/status/2095953446742462807

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Post #2911 623
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 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

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Post #2908 612
100% 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

𝕏 @thealepalombo: https://x.com/thealepalombo/status/2095433838503887329

I wrote this in 2024

𝕏 @levelsio: https://x.com/levelsio/status/1807822245202403340

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Post #2905 623
You stop wondering why the US is so insanely rich when you travel the rest of the world

In most of the world there is:
- no real willingness to solve problems
- nor an acceptance of people offering to solve their problems (out of pride)
- simply too much regulation so the problem cannot be solved without a license or long approval time
- very low standards of what is deemed acceptable so the problem isn't seen as a problem in the first place

The rest of the world really mostly functions like this (except Asia and a few countries in the Middle East)

𝕏 @AndrewWarner: https://x.com/AndrewWarner/status/2094828714366214626

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Post #2903 642
I keep rejected by Claude for the most benign things now

Like it wouldn't download and install a 1990s game from archive(dot)org because of copyright

The safety guardrails in a way make it more dangerous not less I think because after rejecting you it becomes kind of a pedantic child that will just reject whatever

If in that moment your server will go down and it feels it's related it could just reject fixing it

I'm confused how Anthropic is fumbling their lead so much with this stuff, I love to use Claude Code but they're kinda forcing me to move elsewhere to actually get my work done

Also the irony knowing that every single LLM is trained on billions of pages of copyrighted data

𝕏 @edzart: https://x.com/edzart/status/2094070645621674327

*getting rejected

At least all these typos show I write my own tweets

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Post #2900 586
37,000 people watched Infinite Slop yesterday!

So I consider it a success and I registered a domain name for it:

🫟 http://InfiniteSlop.ai

Let me know if you have ideas how to improve, I thought maybe make the chat full height and move the video more left (like Twitch?) but also it looks cool like this?

Only 4 videos per minute can be generated (4x 15 seconds = 1 minute), so that's kind of a limitation, not everyone gets their video generated if it gets busy

Some people say "let people pay $$$ to bid on it" but that's less fun, I like kinda how 4chan-ey/Hoodmaps-ey it is now

Also some people said I should connect the new video with the previous video by using its last frame, that's possible but it causes a technical challenge where you have to generate SO fast without ANY slowdowns (and sometimes there is slowdowns in generating) to get a perfect sequence going, but maybe I can do it in a slightly imperfect manner

Watching this is oddly scarily addictive, and of course dystopian, but it's interesting to try these experiments early and see where it goes

Thanks @rehan_shei + @marcantoinefon for the idea and @fal for VERY generously sponsoring and making this possible!

𝕏 @levelsio: https://x.com/levelsio/status/2093754163343593802

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Post #2898 627
Okay I built it!

🍰 Infinite Slop
http://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 sequence and story line

Idea by @marcantoinefon and @rehan_shei's original stream so I made it

It'd be very expensive to run this so @fal very generously sponsors this

They also fine-tuned the model that makes this possible for the first time, making Minimax H3 50x faster and as "Max" and it can now generate videos faster than you can watch them, very cool!

Let me know what you think!!!! 😊

𝕏 @levelsio: https://x.com/levelsio/status/2093628563693944889

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Post #2897 601
Today is a very historical moment for AI video generation

You can now generate AI video faster than you can watch it

Before it'd take let's say 2-5 minutes to generate 15 seconds of video

@fal made a post-trained Minimax H3 variant called Max which is 50x faster than the original but still maintains quality

It generates 15 seconds of video in 9 seconds!

That means you can now do new things like build a perpetual livestream with it that never ends!

𝕏 @rehan_shei: https://x.com/rehan_shei/status/2093528415576211819

Can try it here for free https://fal.ai/minimax-h3-max

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