What people recommend, in their own words, with the receipt.
Dutch indie maker and solo founder of Nomads.com, Remote OK and Photo AI; writes about building bootstrapped products at levels.io.
41 things
CloudflareService Cloudflare
My favorite part of @Cloudflare is how easy it is to use them for your clanker They always had a great API and all you have to do is add an API token and you can do almost everything you'd do by hand
On why Cloudflare is the easiest provider to hand to an AI agent.
x.com ↗·2026-08-31
Matic vacuumHardware Matic
matic vacuum (they gave me one so I have to disclose but it's GREAT, all the Roomba and Chinese ones suck)
A list of what he would buy again after buying a house; he discloses in the same line that Matic gave him the vacuum.
levels.io ↗·2026-07-23
TermiusSoftware Termius
this just works so well, I'm so fast, and each of my sites is just an open tab in Termius, I've never worked so structured and clean!
Walking through his one-tmux-session-per-site setup; he notes elsewhere that he is unaffiliated with Termius.
levels.io ↗·2026-05-22
Airthings PlusHardware Airthings
I been through so many air sensors, and I really think this is the best one so I bought one for living room and then another one for bedroom, and will get another one for my coworking
A post on buying several air quality sensors before settling on one; he states in the post that he is unaffiliated with Airthings.
levels.io ↗·2026-05-02
AmapSoftware Alibaba
But Amap is great! Especially since it can be used in English and I think it transliterates your searches to Chinese and the Chinese place names back to English
On which navigation app actually works while travelling in China.
levels.io ↗·2025-12-13
Black MirrorOther Charlie Brooker
Black Mirror is by far the best TV series I have seen in years. Production levels that are through the roof and features just absolutely insane writing and plot twists.
An early blog post about the series and its view of technology.
levels.io ↗·2013-02-21
Starlink MiniHardware SpaceX
And one Starlink Mini for travel which we used last month on a boat in the Mediterranean, we had a balcony with only a little bit sky horizontally and still got 25mbps, which was way faster than the onboard WiFi
x.com ↗·2026-09-14
FellowHardware Fellow
You look at Fellow, another premium coffee machine brand, and all their stuff that touches water is high grade stainless steel
Holding up Fellow as the counter-example to Moccamaster's all-plastic water path.
levels.io ↗·2026-08-14
StarlinkService SpaceX
Also @mick__net used it when his MEO (or Vodafone? Or NOS) failed for weeks in Lisbon Get @starlink Only €35/mo!
x.com ↗·2026-09-14
Apple TVHardware Apple
But instead to get an Apple TV and connect that with HDMI to the LG TV I knew LG TVs were full of spyware but it's even worse than everyone thought!
x.com ↗·2026-09-08
HoodmapsService Pieter Levels
Great idea so I added it to https://hotelist.com Hoodmaps tags inside the map so you can book a hotel in the right place 😊
x.com ↗·2026-09-06
Home AssistantSoftware Home Assistant
home assistant + their HA Green (little box that's open source to connect all your devices with Home Assistant)
A list of what he would buy again after a year of owning a house and trying a lot of products.
levels.io ↗·2026-07-23
LG air conditioningHardware LG
LG or Mitsubishi air conditioning in EVERY room, both cooling/heating, every unit should have its own outdoor unit, or you get annoying things like you can't cool one room and heat the other at same time! I think they're called mono splits
A list of what he would buy again after a year of owning a house and trying a lot of products.
levels.io ↗·2026-07-23
Mitsubishi air conditioningHardware Mitsubishi Electric
LG or Mitsubishi air conditioning in EVERY room, both cooling/heating, every unit should have its own outdoor unit, or you get annoying things like you can't cool one room and heat the other at same time! I think they're called mono splits
A list of what he would buy again after a year of owning a house and trying a lot of products.
levels.io ↗·2026-07-23
Xiaomi air purifierHardware Xiaomi
xiaomi air purifier in every room, big spaces get the big purifiers, smaller rooms small ones (most air purifiers are too small for the space they're in!)
A list of what he would buy again after a year of owning a house and trying a lot of products.
levels.io ↗·2026-07-23
UniFiHardware Ubiquiti
unifi router with access points, outdoor extenders, cameras, doorbell, all PoE
A list of what he would buy again after a year of owning a house and trying a lot of products.
levels.io ↗·2026-07-23
StarlinkService SpaceX
starlink with local fiber backup
A list of what he would buy again after a year of owning a house and trying a lot of products.
levels.io ↗·2026-07-23
Weber GenesisHardware Weber
related get a Weber Genesis gas bbq so you can always cook food, fun with friends too
A list of what he would buy again after a year of owning a house and trying a lot of products.
levels.io ↗·2026-07-23
Harvia saunaHardware Harvia
harvia dry sauna, and if outside, add a little changing room to it so you don't exit in the cold outside!
A list of what he would buy again after a year of owning a house and trying a lot of products.
levels.io ↗·2026-07-23
Concept2Hardware Concept2
a gym bike like concept2, maybe concept2 rowing machine too, with that you can do almost anything to stay fit!
A list of what he would buy again after a year of owning a house and trying a lot of products.
levels.io ↗·2026-07-23
Fellow Ode 2Hardware Fellow
fellow water kettle, fellow ode 2 coffee grinder
A list of what he would buy again after a year of owning a house and trying a lot of products.
levels.io ↗·2026-07-23
Apple TVHardware Apple
LG makes the best TVs, end of story, but their software is shit and spies on you, NEVER connect them to the internet/WiFi, instead buy an Apple TV box and connect that, that doesn't spy on you and has no ads, then connect it with HDMI and you're good, also no annoying LG TV updates
A list of what he would buy again after a year of owning a house and trying a lot of products.
levels.io ↗·2026-07-23
FeaturebaseService Featurebase
Featurebase.app bug and feedback board
Listing the pieces of a fully automated one-person software business.
levels.io ↗·2024-11-22
StripeService Stripe
Stripe Billing Portal for changing and canceling subcription
Listing the pieces of a fully automated one-person software business.
levels.io ↗·2024-11-22
ChatGPTSoftware OpenAI
1 founder who's also developer, designer, marketing (use ChatGPT to help with those)
Listing the pieces of a fully automated one-person software business.
levels.io ↗·2024-11-22
SharpSoftware
My own vibe coded image resizing API with NodeJS's Sharp + Redis (saves ~$1,500/mo)
Post listing the SaaS subscriptions he replaced with tools he built himself, with the monthly savings for each swap.
x.com ↗·2026-09-09
RedisSoftware
My own vibe coded image resizing API with NodeJS's Sharp + Redis (saves ~$1,500/mo)
Post listing the SaaS subscriptions he replaced with tools he built himself, with the monthly savings for each swap.
x.com ↗·2026-09-09
NudeNETSoftware
My own $0/mo vibe coded NSFW detection service with Python's NudeNET (saves ~$2,500/mo)
Post listing the SaaS subscriptions he replaced with tools he built himself, with the monthly savings for each swap.
x.com ↗·2026-09-09
NginxSoftware
My own $0/mo Nginx VPS video streaming (saves ~$250/mo)
Post listing the SaaS subscriptions he replaced with tools he built himself, with the monthly savings for each swap.
x.com ↗·2026-09-09
xAIService xAI
My own moderation on all my sites with @xAI (saves ~$10,000/mo)
Post listing the SaaS subscriptions he replaced with tools he built himself, with the monthly savings for each swap.
x.com ↗·2026-09-09
TelegramSoftware
IFTTT -> Telegram bot (saves ~$100/mo)
Post listing the SaaS subscriptions he replaced with tools he built himself, with the monthly savings for each swap.
x.com ↗·2026-09-09
OpenFreeMapsService
Mapbox -> Vibecoded my own free replacement with OpenFreeMaps (saves ~$500/mo)
Post listing the SaaS subscriptions he replaced with tools he built himself, with the monthly savings for each swap.
x.com ↗·2026-09-09
KumaSoftware
My own $5/mo Uptime Canary app running on Kuma (saves ~$50/mo)
Post listing the SaaS subscriptions he replaced with tools he built himself, with the monthly savings for each swap.
x.com ↗·2026-09-09
FeaturebaseService Featurebase
Customer support -> @featurebasehq + AI support bot (saves $5,000/mo)
Post listing the SaaS subscriptions he replaced with tools he built himself, with the monthly savings for each swap.
x.com ↗·2026-09-09
PatchrightSoftware
Scrapingbee/SerpAPI -> My own $1/mo scraper with Patchright (save ~$250/mo)
Post listing the SaaS subscriptions he replaced with tools he built himself, with the monthly savings for each swap.
x.com ↗·2026-09-09
xAIService xAI
I can confirm @xAI was the only Western AI I was able to use when I was traveling in China
On which AI services were reachable on a Hong Kong-routed eSIM while in China.
levels.io ↗·2026-08-24
tmuxSoftware tmux project
I click it and immediately I'm in my server and I get dropped in a tmux session that's always tied to the corresponding site I wanna log in to
Walking through his one-tmux-session-per-site setup.
levels.io ↗·2026-05-22
Claude CodeSoftware Anthropic
It's just tabs for my sites, all on a VPS, synced with my iPhone via @TermiusHQ (unaffiliated) and usually with Claude Code open to fix or build new things
Describing what his laptop and phone screens look like all day.
levels.io ↗·2026-05-22
WidgySoftware Cardente
You can import the 2nd pic into Widgy to install it to your Apple Watch
Sharing a Casio-style watch face he made, and the app needed to install it.
levels.io ↗·2023-04-15
LG TVHardware LG
Thanks everyone for recommending me to buy an LG TV two years ago but especially everyone for recommending me to NEVER ever connect it to the internet
x.com ↗·2026-09-08
MoccamasterHardware Technivorm
One of the best coffee machines in the world is the Moccamaster
A post praising the machine but criticising it for being fully plastic where hot water runs through it.
levels.io ↗·2026-08-14
LG TVsHardware LG
LG makes the best TVs, end of story, but their software is shit and spies on you, NEVER connect them to the internet/WiFi, instead buy an Apple TV box and connect that, that doesn't spy on you and has no ads, then connect it with HDMI and you're good, also no annoying LG TV updates
A list of what he would buy again after a year of owning a house and trying a lot of products.
levels.io ↗·2026-07-23
ClaudeSoftware Anthropic
I keep rejected by Claude for the most benign things now Like it wouldn't download and install a 1990s game from archive(dot)org because of copyright
Complaining that Claude's safety guardrails refuse benign requests.
x.com ↗·2026-08-31
RoombaHardware iRobot
matic vacuum (they gave me one so I have to disclose but it's GREAT, all the Roomba and Chinese ones suck)
A list of what he would buy again after a year of owning a house and trying a lot of products.
levels.io ↗·2026-07-23
Google MapsSoftware Google
Google Maps essentially really doesn't work in China, the location of our hotel Aman in Beijing for example was completely wrong
Contrasting Google Maps with Amap while travelling in China.
levels.io ↗·2025-12-13
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