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Pieter Levels

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
2088 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

Lex Fridman Podcast
#440 โ€“ Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life

So I was traveling and I was still trying to find problems, right? And I would go, I would discover that everybody's experience of a city is different because they stay in different areas. So I'm from Amsterdam and when I grew up in Amsterdam, or didn't grow up, but I lived there, university, I knew that center is like, in Europe, the centers are always tourist areas. So they're super busy areas

Lex Fridman Podcast
#440 โ€“ Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life

They're not very authentic. They're not really Dutch culture. It's Amsterdam tourist culture, you know? So when people would travel to Amsterdam, I would say, don't go to the center. Go to, you know, southeast of the center, the Jordaan or the Pijp or something, more hipster areas, like a little more authentic culture of Amsterdam. That's where I would live, you know, and where I would go.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#440 โ€“ Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life

They're not very authentic. They're not really Dutch culture. It's Amsterdam tourist culture, you know? So when people would travel to Amsterdam, I would say, don't go to the center. Go to, you know, southeast of the center, the Jordaan or the Pijp or something, more hipster areas, like a little more authentic culture of Amsterdam. That's where I would live, you know, and where I would go.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#440 โ€“ Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life

They're not very authentic. They're not really Dutch culture. It's Amsterdam tourist culture, you know? So when people would travel to Amsterdam, I would say, don't go to the center. Go to, you know, southeast of the center, the Jordaan or the Pijp or something, more hipster areas, like a little more authentic culture of Amsterdam. That's where I would live, you know, and where I would go.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#440 โ€“ Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life

And I thought this could be like an app where you can have like a Google Maps, you And then you put colors over it. You have like areas that are like color coded, like red is tourist, green is rich, you know, green money, yellow is hipster. And you can figure out where you need to go in a city when you travel. Cause I was traveling a lot. I wanted to go to the cool spots.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#440 โ€“ Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life

And I thought this could be like an app where you can have like a Google Maps, you And then you put colors over it. You have like areas that are like color coded, like red is tourist, green is rich, you know, green money, yellow is hipster. And you can figure out where you need to go in a city when you travel. Cause I was traveling a lot. I wanted to go to the cool spots.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#440 โ€“ Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life

And I thought this could be like an app where you can have like a Google Maps, you And then you put colors over it. You have like areas that are like color coded, like red is tourist, green is rich, you know, green money, yellow is hipster. And you can figure out where you need to go in a city when you travel. Cause I was traveling a lot. I wanted to go to the cool spots.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#440 โ€“ Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life

Color. Yeah. Yeah. And I would use a canvas. So I thought, okay, what do I need? I need to. Did you know that you would be using a canvas? No, I didn't know it was possible because I didn't know... This is the cool thing.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#440 โ€“ Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life

Color. Yeah. Yeah. And I would use a canvas. So I thought, okay, what do I need? I need to. Did you know that you would be using a canvas? No, I didn't know it was possible because I didn't know... This is the cool thing.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#440 โ€“ Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life

Color. Yeah. Yeah. And I would use a canvas. So I thought, okay, what do I need? I need to. Did you know that you would be using a canvas? No, I didn't know it was possible because I didn't know... This is the cool thing.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#440 โ€“ Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life

Yeah, draw images. Just draw pixels, essentially. Yeah. And that was special back then because before you could only have elements, right? So you want to draw a pixel, use a convulse. And I knew I needed to draw pixels because I need to draw these colors. And I thought like, okay, I'll get like a Google Maps, iframe embeds, and then I'll put a div on top of it.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#440 โ€“ Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life

Yeah, draw images. Just draw pixels, essentially. Yeah. And that was special back then because before you could only have elements, right? So you want to draw a pixel, use a convulse. And I knew I needed to draw pixels because I need to draw these colors. And I thought like, okay, I'll get like a Google Maps, iframe embeds, and then I'll put a div on top of it.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#440 โ€“ Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life

Yeah, draw images. Just draw pixels, essentially. Yeah. And that was special back then because before you could only have elements, right? So you want to draw a pixel, use a convulse. And I knew I needed to draw pixels because I need to draw these colors. And I thought like, okay, I'll get like a Google Maps, iframe embeds, and then I'll put a div on top of it.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#440 โ€“ Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life

with the colors and I'll do like opacity 50, you know, so it kind of shows. So I did that with convos and then I started drawing and then I felt like obviously other people need to edit this because I cannot draw all these things myself. So I crowdsourced it again and you would draw on the map and then it would send the pixel data to the server, it would put it in a database.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#440 โ€“ Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life

with the colors and I'll do like opacity 50, you know, so it kind of shows. So I did that with convos and then I started drawing and then I felt like obviously other people need to edit this because I cannot draw all these things myself. So I crowdsourced it again and you would draw on the map and then it would send the pixel data to the server, it would put it in a database.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#440 โ€“ Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life

with the colors and I'll do like opacity 50, you know, so it kind of shows. So I did that with convos and then I started drawing and then I felt like obviously other people need to edit this because I cannot draw all these things myself. So I crowdsourced it again and you would draw on the map and then it would send the pixel data to the server, it would put it in a database.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#440 โ€“ Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life

And then I would have a robot running like a cron job, which every week would calculate or every day would calculate like, okay, so Amsterdam center, there's like six people say it's tourist, this part of the center, but two people say it's like hipster. Okay, so the tourist part wins, right? It's just an array. So find the most common value in a little pixel area on a map.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#440 โ€“ Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life

And then I would have a robot running like a cron job, which every week would calculate or every day would calculate like, okay, so Amsterdam center, there's like six people say it's tourist, this part of the center, but two people say it's like hipster. Okay, so the tourist part wins, right? It's just an array. So find the most common value in a little pixel area on a map.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#440 โ€“ Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life

And then I would have a robot running like a cron job, which every week would calculate or every day would calculate like, okay, so Amsterdam center, there's like six people say it's tourist, this part of the center, but two people say it's like hipster. Okay, so the tourist part wins, right? It's just an array. So find the most common value in a little pixel area on a map.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#440 โ€“ Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life

So most people say it's tourist, it's tourist and it becomes red. And I would do that for all the GPS corners in the world.