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He vibe coded a game from scratch and got to $1M ARR in 17 days

Wild stuff

Wild stuff — seventeen days.

Pieter Levels spun up a lean, browser-based flight sim with Three.js and AI—and hit $1 million in ARR.

Literally 3 hours to get a fully functioning demo:

No long specs. No bloated roadmaps. He “vibe coded”: prompt-driven AI snippets for shaders, UI components, data models, even placeholder art. In hours he had a runnable demo. In days he had a money-making SaaS.

The game is free to play. You load a tab, pilot simple shapes, and enjoy slick visuals. Revenue lives in ad slots: branded zeppelins, floating billboards and terrain logos at about $5,000 a month each. Stack enough placements—and you get real ARR numbers fast.

This is just another example of the massive leverage you get from AI as a devpreneur.

AI slashes months off your backlog. You can chew through boilerplate and focus on high-leverage features: core loops, retention hooks, monetization edges.

Think about what that means:

  • Accelerate Monetization Cycles
    Ship a monetizable prototype in a week, test ad yield or microtransactions live, then pivot before your competition has finished specs.

  • Collapse Development Timelines
    With AI scaffolding, you scaffold services, UIs, and even tests in minutes. That’s hours saved on wiring and debugging.

  • Turn Audience + Execution into Unfair Advantage
    Levels already had followers. He teased progress, built hype, then captured early ad buyers. You can…

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