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Pieter Levels and his flight simulator
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- 0:00He built a video game in 3 hours with
- 0:02AI.
- 0:0317 days later, it was making a million
- 0:05dollars a year.
- 0:07>> [music]
- 0:07>> Pieter Levels has no employees, no
- 0:09investors, no office.
- 0:12In 2014, he challenged himself to launch
- 0:1412 startups in 12 months.
- 0:16One became Nomad List. [music]
- 0:18Then came Remote OK.
- 0:20Then Photo AI.
- 0:22>> [music]
- 0:22>> Over 40 products in 10 years, all built
- 0:24alone.
- 0:26In February 2025, he opened [music]
- 0:28Cursor and started typing prompts.
- 0:303 hours later, he had a flight simulator
- 0:32running in the browser.
- 0:33>> [music]
- 0:34>> Elon Musk shared it.
- 0:36Wow, this is cool. AI gaming will be
- 0:38massive. So, he [music] sold the sky.
- 0:41Blimps and billboards, $5,000 a month
- 0:43each. 17 days after launch, it was
- 0:46making a million dollars a year.
- 0:48Even he said nobody knew if it would
- 0:49last. The flight took 3 hours. The
- 0:52runway took 10 years.
- 0:55Follow Vibe Economies for more.
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