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.
莱维尔斯最初将 Nomad List 发布为一份公开、可编辑的 Google 表格,而非先构建网站。他通过粉丝群体众包收集城市数据,在该表格走红并积累数百座城市的数据后,才将其转化为正式网站。
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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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Nomad List 是我创建的一个网站,用于帮助数字游民判断最适合居住和工作的城市;但它最初根本不是网站,而是一份 Google 表格——一份任何人都可以编辑的公开 Google 表格。
I think it’s accidental, because that’s the thing I knew. I knew PHP, I knew HTML, CSS, because you make websites, and when my startups started taking off, I didn’t have time to… I remember putting on my to-do list like, “Learn Node.js,” because it’s important to switch, because this obviously is much better language than PHP, and I never learned it.
if you look at the photorealistic models that people use now, there’s still core of porn there, of naked people. So I need to prompt out, and everybody needs to do this with AI startups, with imaging, you need to prompt out the naked stuff.
on like 10% of the users, I would randomly test parameters and then I would see if they would, because you can favor the photo or you can download it, I would measure if they favor it or like the photo. And then I would A/B test
I have a lot of founder friends and they tell me secretly, with hundreds of millions of dollars in funding and stuff, and they tell me, “Next time, if I’m going to do it, I’m going to do it like you, because it’s more fun, it’s more indie, it’s more chill, it’s more creative.”
莱维尔斯描述了 Remote OK 的营收模式,指出B2B招聘平台可收取溢价。他在平台上添加了彩虹色职位帖、背景图等装饰性增值功能,单个售价高达1000美元;巅峰期月收入达14万美元,后因宏观经济变化导致收入大幅下滑。
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You start with 2.99, but at the peak, when the feds started printing money like 2021, I was making 140K a month with Remote OK with just job posts. And I started adding crazy upsells, like rainbow-colored job posts. You can add your background image. It’s just upsells, man. And you charge a thousand dollars for an upsell.
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你起步价是2.99美元,但在巅峰期——也就是美联储于2021年开始疯狂印钞那会儿——仅靠发布职位信息,Remote OK 就为我带来每月14万美元的收入。随后我开始加入各种疯狂的增值功能,比如彩虹色职位帖、你可以添加自己的背景图。全是增值功能啊,兄弟!而某个增值功能你就能收一千美元。
regulation is very good for big companies because they can follow it. I can’t follow it, right? If I want to start an AI startup in Europe now, I cannot because there’s an AI regulation that makes it very complicated for me. I probably need to get notaries involved.