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Pieter Levels

@levelsio · Solo developer · Bootstrapped founder

Solo founder of Photo AI, Nomads.com and Remote OK, who now builds his products with Claude Code on a VPS.

Website X Last verified Oct 8, 2026 · 5 sources

Pieter Levels Overview

Pieter Levels is a solo entrepreneur who builds bootstrapped internet startups without funding and codes them himself.[1] He has shared what he learns in blog posts since 2013.[1]

What Pieter Built

Photo AI

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Founder · AI photo generator

AI image and video generator. The app is a single index.php of about 40,870 lines.

fly.pieter.com

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Founder · Browser game · Launched Feb 2025

Vibe-coded browser flight simulator and one of the first vibe-coded games to go viral.

Nomads.com

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Founder · Community

Places to live for digital nomads, formerly Nomad List.

Remote OK

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Founder · Job board

Remote job board.

How Pieter Builds

His products run on deliberately plain stacks: Photo AI is one index.php file of about 40,870 lines.[2] Since mid-2025 he has done almost all of his coding through Claude Code, running it over SSH on his VPS instead of on his laptop.[3]

I've been coding almost solely on my VPS with Claude Code for almost a year now

[3] levels.io

By May 2026 he wrote that he had not written code by hand in about six months.[4]

Business Model

He publishes his revenue himself; the figures below are founder-reported and dated.

Photo AI · monthly revenue

$105,000

Founder-reported · as of Mar 2026 · [2] levels.io

fly.pieter.com was vibe coded and launched in February 2025, then went viral.[5]

fly.pieter.com · ARR

$1M

Founder-reported · as of Mar 2025 · [5] levels.io

Timeline

  • Starts blogging about building startups.[1]
  • Launches fly.pieter.com.[5]
  • Publishes Photo AI's monthly revenue and profit.[2]
  • Writes that he no longer writes code by hand.[4]
  • Marks almost a year of coding on his VPS with Claude Code.[3]

Lessons

Further Reading

Sources

  1. [1]@levelsio (Pieter Levels) · levels.io
  2. [2]Photoai.com is a 40,870 line index.php making 105,000/mo revenue and 80,000/mo profit · levels.io · Mar 6, 2026
  3. [3]Coding on vps with claude code for a year · levels.io · Jun 28, 2026
  4. [4]I don't write code anymore · levels.io · May 23, 2026
  5. [5]fly.pieter.com, my first vibecoded flight simulator which reached $1M ARR in 17 days · levels.io · Feb 22, 2025