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by inquisitor26234 634 days ago
thing about levelsio is you can copy his ideas but you don't have his existing audience, connections, and resources

and the guy ships like a machine good lord

"just code more carefully" jesus

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Does he ship like a machine, or are his products relatively simple GenAI wrappers?
ships like a machine yes

his products being genai wrappers, some are partly yes.

in his interview with lex fridman he explains how he built his recent photo ai one, yes most of it is wrapper on some ai service, but his team goes the extra mile of training models on their own so it looks more photorealistic than the generally available ones

he built products before ai like nomadlist and remoteok.

his hit and miss rates are as real as it gets

https://x.com/levelsio/status/1457315274466594817

Yeah, kudos where kudos are due for making something that is easily tweaked, but I was thinking of a recent example of his “speed”.

Adding a “comic book” style in “4 minutes”: https://x.com/levelsio/status/1836735235658072144

If all you need to do to ship a new feature is add a prompt option in a configuration somewhere, yeah you can ship fast. And, again, all the props for making something that can iterate like that!

I think what I wanted to but failed to convey by being pithy is: For the people out there comparing themselves and think they’re “slow”, they might be trying to solve a problem that can’t be solved with a configuration tweak. It’s ok that it takes more time then.