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Pieter Levels

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
2088 total appearances

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

Like be naive about it because it's, you're going to have very difficult problems. A lot of the big problems won't be even tech, will be public, right? Maybe people don't like your website. You will get canceled for a website, for example. A lot of things can happen.

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

Like be naive about it because it's, you're going to have very difficult problems. A lot of the big problems won't be even tech, will be public, right? Maybe people don't like your website. You will get canceled for a website, for example. A lot of things can happen.

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

So, man, I think haters are actually good because I think a lot of haters have good points. And it takes like stepping away from the emotion of like, ah, your website sucks because blah, blah, blah. And you're like, okay, just remove this. Your website sucks because it's personal, you know. What did he say? Why did he not like it? And you figure out, okay, he didn't like it because...

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

So, man, I think haters are actually good because I think a lot of haters have good points. And it takes like stepping away from the emotion of like, ah, your website sucks because blah, blah, blah. And you're like, okay, just remove this. Your website sucks because it's personal, you know. What did he say? Why did he not like it? And you figure out, okay, he didn't like it because...

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

So, man, I think haters are actually good because I think a lot of haters have good points. And it takes like stepping away from the emotion of like, ah, your website sucks because blah, blah, blah. And you're like, okay, just remove this. Your website sucks because it's personal, you know. What did he say? Why did he not like it? And you figure out, okay, he didn't like it because...

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

the signup was difficult or something, or it wasn't the data. They say, no, this data is not accurate or something, right? Okay, I need to improve the quality of the data. This hater has a point. I think it's dumb to completely ignore your haters, you know? And also, man, I think I've been there when I was like 10 years old or something, you're on the internet, you're just shouting crazy stuff.

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

the signup was difficult or something, or it wasn't the data. They say, no, this data is not accurate or something, right? Okay, I need to improve the quality of the data. This hater has a point. I think it's dumb to completely ignore your haters, you know? And also, man, I think I've been there when I was like 10 years old or something, you're on the internet, you're just shouting crazy stuff.

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

the signup was difficult or something, or it wasn't the data. They say, no, this data is not accurate or something, right? Okay, I need to improve the quality of the data. This hater has a point. I think it's dumb to completely ignore your haters, you know? And also, man, I think I've been there when I was like 10 years old or something, you're on the internet, you're just shouting crazy stuff.

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

That's like most of Twitter, you know, or half of Twitter. So you have to take it with a grain of salt. Yeah, man, you need to grow a very thick skin like on Twitter, on X, like...

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

That's like most of Twitter, you know, or half of Twitter. So you have to take it with a grain of salt. Yeah, man, you need to grow a very thick skin like on Twitter, on X, like...

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

That's like most of Twitter, you know, or half of Twitter. So you have to take it with a grain of salt. Yeah, man, you need to grow a very thick skin like on Twitter, on X, like...

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

people say but i mute a lot of people like i found out i muted already 15 000 people recently i checked so in in 10 years i moved 15 000 people so that's like like that's one by one manual 15 yeah oh so 1500 people per year and i don't like to block because then they get angry they make a screenshot they say ah you block me so i just mute and it disappear and it's amazing so you mentioned reddit so hood maps that make it to the front page of reddit

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

people say but i mute a lot of people like i found out i muted already 15 000 people recently i checked so in in 10 years i moved 15 000 people so that's like like that's one by one manual 15 yeah oh so 1500 people per year and i don't like to block because then they get angry they make a screenshot they say ah you block me so i just mute and it disappear and it's amazing so you mentioned reddit so hood maps that make it to the front page of reddit

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

people say but i mute a lot of people like i found out i muted already 15 000 people recently i checked so in in 10 years i moved 15 000 people so that's like like that's one by one manual 15 yeah oh so 1500 people per year and i don't like to block because then they get angry they make a screenshot they say ah you block me so i just mute and it disappear and it's amazing so you mentioned reddit so hood maps that make it to the front page of reddit

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

Yeah, yeah, it did. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, it did. It was amazing. And my server almost went down and I was checking like Google Analytics. It was like 5,000 people on the website or something crazy. And it was at night. It was amazing. Man, I think nowadays, honestly, TikTok... YouTube Reels, Instagram Reels, a lot of apps get very big from people making TikTok videos about it.

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

Yeah, yeah, it did. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, it did. It was amazing. And my server almost went down and I was checking like Google Analytics. It was like 5,000 people on the website or something crazy. And it was at night. It was amazing. Man, I think nowadays, honestly, TikTok... YouTube Reels, Instagram Reels, a lot of apps get very big from people making TikTok videos about it.

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

Yeah, yeah, it did. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, it did. It was amazing. And my server almost went down and I was checking like Google Analytics. It was like 5,000 people on the website or something crazy. And it was at night. It was amazing. Man, I think nowadays, honestly, TikTok... YouTube Reels, Instagram Reels, a lot of apps get very big from people making TikTok videos about it.

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

So let's say you make your own app. You can make a video of yourself. Like, oh, I made this app. This is how it works, blah, blah, blah. And this is why I made it, for example, and this is why you should use it. And if it's a good video, it will take off and you will get... Man, I got like... $20,000 extra per month or something from a TikTok, from one TikTok video. Like it made a photo AI.

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

So let's say you make your own app. You can make a video of yourself. Like, oh, I made this app. This is how it works, blah, blah, blah. And this is why I made it, for example, and this is why you should use it. And if it's a good video, it will take off and you will get... Man, I got like... $20,000 extra per month or something from a TikTok, from one TikTok video. Like it made a photo AI.

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

So let's say you make your own app. You can make a video of yourself. Like, oh, I made this app. This is how it works, blah, blah, blah. And this is why I made it, for example, and this is why you should use it. And if it's a good video, it will take off and you will get... Man, I got like... $20,000 extra per month or something from a TikTok, from one TikTok video. Like it made a photo AI.