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Validate ideas by launching fast and charging money
Without VC funding, Levels builds mini-startups alone and launches within about two weeks. He validates ideas not just through sign-ups, but by checking if users actually pay with credit cards, accepting that most ideas will fail.
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Pieter Levels on Bootstrapping Startups, AI Image Models, and Indie Development
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I have an idea in my mind and I build it like a mini startup, and I launch it very quickly, within two weeks or something, of building it. And I check if there’s demand and if people actually sign up and not just sign up, but if people actually pay money.
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