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Bootstrapping startups while traveling the world.

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I remade a chart of the best and worst value cities based on Nomads.com data

Your priority as a man is to avoid the padel body at all costs

My X revenue hit a new record of about $25,000 this month

One of the best coffee machines in the world is the Moccamaster but it's fully plastic

Someone made a Moccamaster clone but without plastic

We flew into Beijing from Japan, then went to Chengdu, Chongqing, Shanghai and Hangzhou

DHH shared a cool tip to hook Claude Code up to your Ubiquiti router and improve your WiFi

I'm not a paid CCP shill but China is having its moment for tourists now

China is one of the highest value countries to travel to now

The Dead Internet Theory could become real if AI replaces all human content creation

I'm deleting Claude

This prompt finally stopped Claude from getting more and more unintelligible every day

It's crazy to think the entire West is literally leaning on one single guy to do things at the same level China does

Meta is allegedly building its own search engine so its AI queries don't train Google's models

Meta is doing heavy scraping on my sites including url2og possibly for image video or world models

Raising a rich kid is kinda like child abuse because it messes up their reward function

Claude's AI output is so verbose and jargon dense that I have to look up every word

My accountant replied with a 100% AI answer so why not replace him with AI

I vibecoded a full video editor into Photo AI that generates and edits videos with your trained models

You should change your flight from Tokyo to Shanghai to visit actual China

Indie hackers may be the first type of developer to go extinct as AI lowers the cost of execution

The West's biggest blindspot is repeatedly underestimating China's speed and capabilities

I've already seen Wispr Flow, Granola and WHOOP reverse engineered and open sourced with fully free versions today

BigAI is cannibalizing everything that used to be apps for indiehackers

I cancelled all my SaaS subscriptions and vibecoded 100% of them myself

Most guys over 35 now have the padel body and you need to fight it

The European union makes more money from fining us tech companies than taxing Europe's own public tech companies

Things I learnt after buying a house and going through lots of shitty products

The French and Germans will ban Tesla FSD to protect their car industry

AI raises everyone's app quality but customers now vibecode their own clones to skip paying

I increasingly have no idea about anything anymore because time is changing too fast with AI

Looking through 80+ seed incubator applications shows everyone's building similar AI slop

Superintelligence has passed us and we're all running after the carrot

Yesterday at a party we said maybe software is dead and everyone pretty much agreed

5% ownership is probably the most common final stake for VC funded startup founders

Good guy Google removes 151 to 200 reviews from kebap haus due to defamation complaints

It's hard to imagine how much richer US is getting

How to buy S&P500, tech, bonds and commodities ETFs on IBKR as US or non-US citizen

How to code with Kimi K3 better than Fable and no restrictions

Kimi K3 from China hammers through my Windows XP Simulator todo list while Claude wastes 2 weeks on safety guardrails

macOS 27 in the browser created by Kimi K3

Google Maps in Germany now shows defamation complaint amounts, so here's a calculator to find a place's real rating

US restricts AI models so China builds better ones and everyone switches

Every single time they have AC but you can't have AC

All you need to build a business is free open source software a VPS an AI API and R2/S3

How they want you to live tiny windows no AC vegan food nonstop work and medication

How you should live with sunlight AC whole foods and exercise

I invested in EthSystems to make Ethereum private for banks

Places the most attractive rich and educated nomads visit vs the least

2 hours after a German signs up to your site