Share this page!

@levelsio Profile picture
Twitter logo
14 Dec, 7 tweets, 4 min read
12mo ago I went into the livecoding section on Twitch and was watching @cmgriffing

He told me @roxkstar74 was a fan so I opened his stream, said hi, and he started crying 😭

Turns out he was depressed and stuck in an unhealthy life building a VC funded startup that didn't work
We did a podcast together and after we kept chatting

I told him if he was depressed to quit his startup, and maybe take a break and hang with me and my friends who were about to fly to Thailand

2 weeks after he showed up!

He'd never been outside US
It was a wild 8 months of ups and downs

Inviting a stranger you've only seen on Twitch who has never been outside US to the other side of the world was....intense

For him and for us

We went to the gym together, coworked, and mostly tried to help get him into an indie mindset
I think it worked because he's now making internet money with his own apps/sites enough to live from

He goes to the gym every 2 days, eats clean and today he said he's happy and out of his depression

So I hope it changed his life

And we got another person to see the world

❤️
Thanks @roxkstar74 for showing up on the other side of the world. It's scary as fuck and you did it! Thanks @rameerez for coaching Dan when I was the one inviting him and you still helped! And I hope we weren't too tough on you Dan. Godspeed! 🚀
If you're interested in the apps he made:

nftlists.me
clipbot.tv
sponsors.dev
8 months ago vs last week ❤️

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
　

Keep Current with @levelsio

@levelsio Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @levelsio

@levelsio Profile picture
13 Dec
I think I convinced ~80% of my friends to move to Portugal now
Only need to bring my parents and some family now
Shockingly even the guy friends' girlfriends are now DTP (down to portugal) where with other places they were absolutely not (thailand, bali, mexico etc)
Read 4 tweets
@levelsio Profile picture
12 Dec
If I didn't go travel in my early 20s I'd now be working an office job instead of having built a $10M+ business WHILE traveling

Travel is the single most impactful thing you can do to broaden your perspective

Go travel please and never stop
Not saying I'm not an outlier, but OP tweet mentions you kill success, so I think worthy to mention biz

I also agree everyone should just do whatever they want, but going abroad is scary and sometimes you need a little push like this tweet to go!
Before I studied abroad in Korea in 2009 my world view was literally the Netherlands and that was it. Now it's the entire world. Going abroad has pros and cons. Cons are less ties to one place. Pros are more ties and a more broad view of the world, society and humanity.
Read 14 tweets
@levelsio Profile picture
6 Dec
The only way to get what you want in life is to repeatedly say no to what you don't
It's a platitude tweet, I know, but I thought of this while half asleep and wrote it down. You essentially have to say no most of the time or you're inevitably only doing what other people want you to do.
And you think people will hate you for saying what you don't want and what you want because it goes against them. But I found out many ppl actually think what you think and are just scared to say it. Esp in groups
Read 4 tweets
@levelsio Profile picture
2 Dec
Very interesting rebase.com thing today:

Lawyers in Portugal (and elsewhere?) cannot solicit or advertise their services, accountants can

So people have to ASK them for their services

That's why the process involves emails where accountants "refer" a lawyer on CC
This means it's illegal when people sign up to Rebase to immediately put them on a call with a lawyer. Because it'd be too direct. I can only "refer" a lawyer. I think this process could be automated legally though.
For ex: applicant could give Rebase permission to approach a lawyer "in their name"
Read 6 tweets
@levelsio Profile picture
7 Nov
🍰 Only 4 out of 70+ projects I ever did made money and grew

📉 >95% of everything I ever did failed

📈 My hit rate is only about ~5%

🚀 So...ship more
inb4 MAKE book didn't fail, true it didn't but it's not really a growing project (which is okay that's the nature of books), if you do want to include it the % grows to 7% hit rate
Also I think many are a success like inflationchart.com hoodmaps.com but just not making $ or growing in $, which is perfectly OKAY by me!

The point is what are the odds % of making something that makes money AND grows? I think small and for me that's about 5%
Read 4 tweets
@levelsio Profile picture
6 Nov
It took 7 years and a global pandemic but Nomad List is finally growing exponentially and passed >$500k/y

Almost exactly like @paulg's startup curve

Nice to arrive in ✨ The Promised Land ✨ after years of🩸blood 💦 sweat and 😭 tears

nomadlist.com/open
It's eery how close this matches the Wiggles of False Hope, literally you try everything and nothing really makes it grow just up and down up and down for years @paulg nomadlist.com/open
I think it was difficult to get it going because the market wasn't ready for it yet. There weren't enough people working remotely and in turn not enough % of those people going remote. It's much different now after COVID with remote work now being mainstream
Read 6 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!

This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Too expensive? Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal

Or Donate anonymously using crypto!

Ethereum

0xfe58350B80634f60Fa6Dc149a72b4DFbc17D341E copy

Bitcoin

3ATGMxNzCUFzxpMCHL5sWSt4DVtS8UqXpi copy

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us on Twitter!

Like this author's thread?

Get emails when @levelsio has new unrolls!

Check out other threads from @levelsio!

Read all threads by @levelsio

:(