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Indie founder; digital nomad at Nomad List / RemoteOK / Photo AI.
Tools Pieter Levels has publicly discussed or demonstrated using. Curated by Magpie's editorial team from podcasts, posts, and public stacks.
Pieter Levels (levelsio) is an indie hacker known for building solo-operated SaaS products like Nomad List, RemoteOK, and Photo AI. He builds in public on X, screenshotting his stack and posting code commits, server logs, and revenue dashboards in real time.
Levels uses Cursor as his primary IDE for shipping product changes and frequently posts screenshots and walkthroughs of his daily build-in-public workflow. He used Cursor as the primary tool to build a viral flight simulator in 3 hours with no game-development background, alongside Grok 3, Claude 3.7 Sonnet and ChatGPT for debugging. Cursor sits at the centre of his solo-operator stack.
Levels uses Claude (especially Sonnet) extensively for code generation and product copy. Claude 3.7 Sonnet was a core part of his viral flight simulator build alongside Cursor. He's shared screenshots of Claude prompts driving feature work on Photo AI and other products and has named Claude in his recommended-AI-subscriptions posts.
Long-time ChatGPT user. Levels names ChatGPT in his recommended-AI-subscription tweet alongside Perplexity, Anthropic, Cursor, V0 and Claude. He uses ChatGPT for debugging in his rapid-build workflows and frequently posts side-by-side comparisons of ChatGPT vs Claude responses for indie product work.
Levels named Perplexity AI in his recommended-AI-subscription tweet as one of the tools worth paying for. He treats Perplexity as a core research-grade answer engine alongside ChatGPT and Claude in his daily workflow.
Photo AI runs on Replicate-hosted image-generation models. Levels has posted about the infrastructure stack behind Photo AI publicly, treating Replicate as the canonical model-hosting layer for solo-operator products that need fine-tuning capacity without building the infra themselves.
Stripe powers payments across Levels' products. He's posted MRR screenshots and Stripe dashboards as part of his build-in-public output, treating Stripe as the canonical payments primitive for solo-operator SaaS at any revenue scale.
Last researched May 10, 2026
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