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✍️ Essay
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Why we picked it Levels documents committing to ship a new startup every month for a year, in public, mostly to unglamorous silence, until two of the twelve, Nomad List and Remote OK, became real businesses. It's the most concrete proof that the volume of launches, not the polish of any single one, is what got him there.

I'm Launching 12 Startups in 12 Months

From levels.io by Pieter Levels

  • Most of the twelve launches went nowhere, and that was expected, not a failure
  • Shipping monthly forced fast iteration instead of over investing in one idea
  • The wins came from two attempts out of twelve, a ratio worth planning your own year around
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Answers My launch flopped and nobody cared, did I mess it up?
✍️ Essay
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Why we picked it Pieter Levels wrote up, in public, exactly how he built and launched a project while narrating each step on Twitter, and this essay is close to a primary source for what a real founder's drip looked like start to finish. It shows how the accountability of an audience watching kept him posting past day one, which is the discipline a two-week sequence demands. Read it for the mechanics of turning ordinary build steps into a running story.

Building a startup in public: from first line of code to frontpage of Reddit

From levels.io by Pieter Levels 10 min read

  • Narrating each build step in public creates its own accountability to keep posting.
  • A public audience turns routine progress into a story worth following.
  • The build itself, not just launch day, is the content.
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Answers How do I turn a launch into an ongoing drip instead of one spike that flatlines two days later?
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