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levelsio: Hotelist is now his biggest site at 700k visitors

levelsio says Hotelist passed 700,000 visitors a month and now takes bookings through an MCP connector, so an AI agent can book a hotel without touching the site.

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levelsio says Hotelist is now his biggest site at 700k monthly visitors

levelsio says Hotelist has passed 700,000 visitors a month, making it his most popular site, and he added invite-only user profiles the same day. Users can review and rate hotels, upvote or downvote other reviews and earn karma, an idea he credits to @marckohlbrugge on the theory you trust friends-of-friends over Google Maps reviews.

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you're probably far away from a fake reviewer and you trust your friends' reviews
Oct 29, 2026 · View on X

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Stolen playbooks

Tibo's 2026 hiring rule: pay well, unlimited AI tokens, leave them alone

Tibo posted a four line hiring playbook: hire smart people, pay them well, give them unlimited AI tokens, and leave them alone. He says it is the playbook behind an $8m acquisition and multiple SaaS products above $100k MRR, though he gave no detail on either in the post.

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What changed under us

levelsio wants lifetime bans on X for a single AI reply

levelsio says X should suspend an account for life for one AI reply, calling replies a nightmare and worse than they have ever been. He frames AI bots in replies as an existential threat, on the grounds that people stop using a platform where most replies are machines. He posted no numbers and X has said nothing.

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Replies are a nightmare now and it's never ever been this bad
Oct 29, 2026 · View on X

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