All you need to build a business today is free open source software, a VPS, an AI API and S3-style file hosting.

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1. 14 Jul 2026

   Pieter Levels quoted

   Their wordsAll you really need today to build a business is 100% free open source software that charges you $0/mo a VPS server an API to do some required AI stuff some R2/S3 file hosting

   ↗All you need to build a business is free open source software a VPS an AI API and R2/S3levels.io

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• Using an open source project confers no right to a say in its direction; open source is run by those who do the work, not by democratic vote of its users. open source

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