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Pieter Levels

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2088 total appearances

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.