Pieter Levels
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696 appearances
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first heard Aug 2024
last heard Aug 2024
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I could, I could code a little bit cause I did the YouTube channel and I made a website for, I would make websites for like the YouTube channel. It was called Panda Mix Show. And it was like these electronic music mixes, like dubstep or drum and bass or techno or house.
Yeah, my album, my CD album was using Flash. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I sold my CD, yeah.
It was in Flash. Back then, that was the JavaScript, you know? The JavaScript, yeah.
And Steve Jobs killed it.
Steve Jobs said, Flash sucks, stop using it. And everyone's like, okay.
Yeah. I don't know. Yeah. Well, it was a closed platform, I think.
But this is ironic because Apple, you know, they're not very open. Right. But back then, Steve was like, this is closed. We should not use it. And it has security problems, I think, which sounded like a cop-out. Like, I just wanted to say that to make it look kind of bad. But Flash was cool. Yeah.
You had, like, the, you know, Lex homepage. Everyone was centered. And you had, like, Peter's homepage. And on the construction GIF, which was, like, a guy with a helmet. Right. And the lights, it was amazing.
I think that was where the merchant accounts people would use for. People would make money a lot. Only money made on the internet then was porn, or a lot of it.
Yeah, but I had to learn the actual coding. So this was good. It was a good idea to like every month launch a startup so I could learn the codes, learn basic stuff. But it was still very scrappy because I didn't have time to, which was on purpose. I didn't have time to spend a lot of, I had a month to do something. So I couldn't spend more than a month and I was pretty strict about that.
And I published it as a blog post so people, I think I put it on Hacker News and people would check like, kind of like, oh, did you actually, you know? I felt like accountability because I put it public that I actually had to do it.
I think it was Play My Inbox. Because back then, my friends, we would send, we would send like cool, it was before Spotify, I think. We would send like, 2013, we would send music to each other, like YouTube links. Like, this is a cool song. This is a cool song. And it was these giant email threads on Gmail. And they were like unnavigatable.
So I made an app that would log into your Gmail, get the emails and find the ones with YouTube links, and then make like, kind of like a gallery of your songs. Like essentially Spotify. And my friends loved it.
No, it uses like POP, like POP or IMAP, you know, it would actually check your email. So that like privacy concerns, because it would get all your emails to find YouTube links, but then I wouldn't save anything. But that was fun. It was like, and that first product already would get like pressed. Like it went on, I think like... some tech media and stuff. And I was like, that's cool.
It didn't make money. There was no payment button, but it was actually people using it. I think tens of thousands of people used it.
Yeah, you could tell Gmail, like, don't give me all the emails. Just give me the ones with YouTube links, you know, or something like that.
I think it's hard to get people to pay for these like extensions and plugins, you know, because it's not like a real app. So it's not like people don't value it. People value it. Oh, and a plugin should be free. You know, when I want to use a plugin in Google Sheets or something, I'm not going to pay for it.
It should be free, which is, but if you go to a website and you actually, okay, I need this product. I'm going to pay for this because it's a real product. So even though it's the same code in the back, it's a plugin, you know.
Yeah, but who pays for Chrome extensions, right? Like barely anybody. So that's not a good place to make money probably.
Like Chrome extensions should be an extension for your startup. You know, you have a product. Oh, we also have a Chrome extension.
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