The Unconventional Path to Success.

Marco Kotrotsos
4 min readSep 5, 2024

The 5 must follow lessons from the interview with Pieter Levels

From Pieter Levels X

In a world obsessed with the latest tech stacks, VC funding, and scaling teams, Pieter Levels stands out like a sore thumb — or perhaps more accurately, like a refreshingly simple breath of fresh air in the overcomplicated tech landscape.

In his recent interview with Lex Friedman highlighted the path he took to success.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFtjKbXKqbg

A Dutch entrepreneur, digital nomad, and indie hacker extraordinaire. He has built multiple successful projects, including Nomad List and RemoteOK, all while defying conventional wisdom. Let’s dive into the wonderfully weird world of Pieter Levels and uncover the lessons that might just change the way you think about entrepreneurship.

Lesson 1: Embrace the Power of Vanilla

Simplicity is key

While the rest of the tech world is chasing the latest JavaScript framework or cloud-native architecture, Pieter is happily coding away in PHP, jQuery, and SQLite. Yes, you read that right — the same tech stack your cool developer…

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Marco Kotrotsos

Tech person. I write about technology, Generative AI, the cloud, design and development.