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James Ivings

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James Ivings

@JamesIvings

Digital Nomad for 8+ years, bootstrapping products around the world! 🌏 🙅‍♂️ Easily unsubscribe from emails - leavemealone.com

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James Ivings
@JamesIvings
Jul 10, 2024
WE'RE SELLING OUR BOAT 🥲 After 2 years sailing 10,000 nautical miles from Greece to Trinidad, we've decided to go back to being digital nomads for a while. I've learned a LOT in the last two years, so if you've ever thought of doing #boatlife as an indiehacker/nomad then strap
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James Ivings
@JamesIvings
Oct 25, 2025
$10k/mo makes me the wealthiest person ever to exist in my entire family history
Pairaw
@itspairaw
Oct 22, 2025
$10k/mo is genuinely a psyop thats $120k/year do you understand how small of a number that is
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James Ivings
@JamesIvings
Nov 6, 2025
everyone who travels a lot knows it's because Airbnbs are consistently worse than hotels
Amy Nixon
@texasrunnerDFW
Nov 4, 2025
Curious to get people’s thoughts on why, after a blockbuster IPO and continued growth, Airbnb stock has performed so poorly over the past 5 years relative to other tech stocks
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James Ivings
@JamesIvings
Jan 21, 2023
ChatGPT goes paid today! 🔥 RIP all the free tools exploiting the closed API 🤪
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James Ivings
@JamesIvings
Oct 27, 2024
I've had exactly one good product manager in my career Day to day it seemed like he did basically nothing - he didn't really understand the product, he didn't really know what was going on in the sprint, he was pretty bad at assigning tasks, he'd even disappear for days and
celeste coenomia, third floret
@vmfunc
Oct 25, 2024
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James Ivings
@JamesIvings
Jul 31, 2024
so let me get this straight > a silicon valley founder guy releases another AI wearable thing ("Friend") that will obviously fail like the last one > he for some reason spends $1,800,000 of investor money on the domain for it > WAIT, now some other dude has posted a video of
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James Ivings
@JamesIvings
Dec 14, 2022
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James Ivings
@JamesIvings
Sep 27, 2022
tHe PeRfEcT pRoDuCt DoEsN't ExIsT
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James Ivings
@JamesIvings
May 1, 2024
Arc is still a solution looking for a problem. Convince me otherwise
The Browser Company
@browsercompany
Apr 30, 2024
Arc on Windows is finally here. No more waitlists, no more betas. Download Arc today.
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James Ivings
@JamesIvings
May 28, 2024
Wow unexpected, Thailand are introducing a remote work visa! 🇹🇭 180 days for 10,000 baht ($270) You can extend for another 180 days for the same price 🤯
Thailand Eases Visa Rules to Boost Economy Urgently
From khaosodenglish.com
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James Ivings
@JamesIvings
Aug 29, 2022
🤯 Omg @stripe just sent us these renders of our boat as a congratulations on hitting $50k ARR and they're the absolute cutest thing I've ever seen 🥲🥲🥲
James Ivings
@JamesIvings
Oct 25, 2025
Replying to @jessuppi
I know right, it's like they're accidentally admitting that they started off from huge privilege already?
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James Ivings
@JamesIvings
Jun 3, 2025
Replying to @MKBHD
I used to have ones like this years ago!
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James Ivings
@JamesIvings
Oct 23, 2021
I've been doing web development for nearly 10 years