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Launch with tools you already know
Levels launched Nomad List as a public, editable Google spreadsheet rather than building a website first. He crowdsourced city data from followers, and only converted it into a website after the spreadsheet went viral and accumulated hundreds of cities worth of data.
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Pieter Levels on Bootstrapping Startups, AI Image Models, and Indie Development
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Nomad List, which is like this website I made to figure out the best cities to live and work as digital nomads, it wasn’t a website. It launched as a Google spreadsheet. So, it was a public Google spreadsheet anybody could edit.
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