Here's a list of my sites, apps, side projects etc. I make a lot of stuff so it's fun to keep track. I'll try to keep it up-to-date from latest to oldest. I see this as kind of my resume. It also shows the incredibly high failure rate with any project I do. Most things I made never succeeded or made money.

Last updated: September 2022.  Todo: add pic and blog post for each project and add more stuff about historical projects.

2022-09-06: An AI modern architecture house generator called This House Does Not Exist

2021-11-01: Rebase, immigration-as-a-service that lets you get legal and tax residency, and work permits in countries that want to attract high-tech remote workers. The first country it launched is Portugal.

2021-10-08: The State of Digital Nomads, an always-up-to-date research report on digital nomads and remote workers based on live data from tens of thousands of Nomad List members which makes it the biggest study on real digital nomads ever.

2021-09-08: Remote OK in Microsoft Word, Google Docs and VSCode, I made different fake layouts so that people can browse remote jobs in the office without their boss finding out, it went very viral

2021-04-18: Secret Project, to be announced related to above ^

2021-03-24: MAKE Book NFT, after passing 10,000+ sales I'm making a special gold NFT edition of my book, it's for sale on OpenSea starting at 1 ETH and will be on auction for a month.  5% goes to CO₂ removal.

2021-02-14: InflationChart, the stock market adjusted for the US-dollar money supply (formerly M1Chart), to show the rapid devaluing of our money by central banks; blog post

2021-01-10: Rebase (test version), immigration, residency and visa services for remote workers, alpha test version to see if there's enough demand

2020

2020-10-21: QR Menu Creator, a site that lets restaurant owners create mobile friendly menus that customer can open by scanning a QR code on the table, to avoid Coronavirus; Product Hunt

2020-09-06: IdeasAI, an OpenAI-powered GPT-3 business idea generator which uses artificial intelligence to come up with new businesses; Product Hunt

2020-08-18: Remote OK Workers, a remote freelancer directory for companies to hire workers from directly; Product Hunt

2020-05-22: Airline List, a comparison of airlines, airplane models and airports based on service quality and safety rankings

2020-01-20: Nomad List Climate Finder, pick a temperature and time period and find places that match based on your desired climate; Product Hunt

2019

2019-08-05: Bali Sea Cable, monitors Bali's undersea internet cable performance; blog post

2019-07-29: Nomad List 5, explore the world while working remotely; blog post

2019-01-01: How Much Is My Side Project Worth?, a calculator to estimate how much your app, startup or side project is worth when you'd sell it; Product Hunt

2018

2018-12-01: Maker Rank, an index of Product Hunt makers ranked by upvotes; Product Hunt

2018-09-27: No More Google, privacy-friendly alternatives to Google that don't track you; Product Hunt

2018-04-30: MAKE Village, an MVP test to see if people would be interested in living together in a place, ~500 people showed interest; Results

2018-03-26: Nomad List FIRE Calculator, a calculator to see where and when you can retire based on your current savings and income; Product Hunt

2018-03-12: MAKE Book, I wrote and self published a book on building startups without funding in public, it has sold 10,000+ copies; Product Hunt

2018-01-24: How to Build a Startup Without Funding, I did a presentation at Dojo coworking space in Bali about bootstrapping startups. I think this is my favorite presentation I ever made as it quite clearly lays out the fundamentals of how I build my projects. It's essentially a summary of my book MAKE; blog post

2017

2017-12-11: Nomad List 3.0, the third big version of my platform for digital nomads and remote workers; Product Hunt

2017-08-30: Nomad Gear, a crowdsourced index of the best gear for digital nomads; Product Hunt

2017-08-09: Mute, a crowdsourced list of words to mute on social media; Product Hunt

2017-08-26: Hoodmaps, a crowdsourced map to navigate cities based on hipsters, tourists, rich, normies, suits and uni areas; Product Hunt, blog post

2016

2016-10-11: Virtual reality, I spent some time learning virtual reality development to make my 3d modeled scene into a VR game

2016-09-22: Bootstrapping Side Projects into Profitable Startups, I presented at Growth Tribe in Amsterdam about bootstrapping startups

2016-07-04: Places to Work, an app to find the best places to work near you

2016-05-19: From web dev to 3D: Learning 3d modeling, I tried to learn to make a 3d scene in 30 days, Hacker News liked it

2015

2015-10-25: 1 Billion Digital Nomads, I did a presentation in Berlin where I predicted the future of remote work and digital nomads based on data

2015-07-16: Startup Retreats, find remote work retreats for you and your startup

2015-07-05: How Tech Is Shaping Our Future, I did a presentation in Budapest about how technology is pushing money towards to extremes, big companies and individual creators

2015-07-14: Taylor Bot, a personal travel assistant bot on Telegram that tells you where to go and who is near you

2015-06-14: Nomad List 2.0, the second version of my platform for digital nomads, Hacker News, Product Hunt

2015-02-22: Remote OK, a daily remote job aggregator which would pull jobs from other non-remote job boards if they were remote, this later merged with Nomad Jobs to become its own job board; Hacker News, Product Hunt, blog post

2014

2014-10-30: #nomads, a Slack community for digital nomads, now part of Nomad List; Hacker News, Product Hunt, blog post

2014-10-03: GIF Book, make animated GIFs into paper flip books; blog post, Hacker News, Product Hunt

2014-08-31: Nomad Jobs, a remote job board for distributed/remote startups, and the precursor to Remote OK

2014-07-29: Nomad List 1.0, the best cities to live and work remotely; Hacker News, Product Hunt

2014-05-31: Tubelytics, a real-time analytics dashboard for YouTube creators and multi-channel networks

2014-04-20: Go Fucking Do It, set a goal and a deadline and if you don't reach your goal I charge your credit card; Hacker News, Product Hunt, blog post

2014-03-09: Play My Inbox, a site that pulls music links from YouTube and SoundCloud from your email inbox (which your friends would send you) and plays them in a nice interface

2014-03-01: 12 Startups in 12 Months, to fight my depression and decreasing income, I decided to build one project per month for 12 months to see if I could get traction with anything

2014-01-23: How I went from 100 to 0 things, I was robbed of all my stuff and wrote about it and it was on Hacker News

2013

2013-10-19: What happens when you're #1 on Hacker News for a day, I wrote this and it went viral on Hacker News

2013-10-12: Bootstrapping Startups from Thailand, I wrote a blog post that went quite viral on Hacker News and showed how it was possible to work on your startup remotely, this seems normal now but was quite new in 2013 even for software developers on Hacker News; Hacker News thread

2013-04-14: Reset Your Life, after graduating uni, I sold 99% of my possessions, bought a laptop and a backpack, moved out of my apartment in Amsterdam and flew to Asia with ~$1,000 in savings. I started building startups and blogged while doing it to try get on to Hacker News. This was really the start of a fundamental change in my life. Which later on resulted in Nomad List and Remote OK which in turn changed thousands of other people's lives. It all started with this single blog post.

Todo: <2013

I'll be adding more older projects slowly here with the goal of going back to my childhood drawings :D

2012

Write about my How To YouTube network I made with my friend that failed

2012

Todo: write about producing hiphop with RASA and dubstep with FML and making music videos. And HotForYou, a missed connections dating site for college campuses that failed.

2010

Todo: write about my Uber clone for Netherlands that I tried to raise money from rich famous people in Amsterdam who never invested, showing the ridiculousness of the angel/investment/startup scene in Netherlands in 2010.

2009

Write about studying abroad in Korea and going backpacking in South East Asia. My first time outside Europe which changed my life permanently to become international/global thinking.

2008-2012

Todo: write about my electronic music YouTube channel network

2006-2012

Studying international business administration as a Bachelor and Master at 3 different universities.

2003-2008

Todo: write about my drum & bass music career, with producing, DJing, radio playlisting and club events organizing and publishing my album

2000-2003

Todo: write about my Photoshop art / design career, NowGoCreate, Qantas Design Award etc. NoPattern. And spray painting.

1993-1998

Todo: write about Addo Stuur books "Windows for Kids" etc and learning to code with SuperLogo as a kid

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