Pieter Levels' value is not as a replicable template, but as proof of an extreme hypothesis: without investment, without hiring, without renting an office, one person can build a global product portfolio generating $1M+ annual revenue. But his specific path (2014 HN virality → 2015 SEO accumulation → 2023 AI explosion) is a layering of era-specific windows, not a repeatable recipe. For OPC, the transferable principles are — ship extremely fast, charge immediately, build in public, keep overhead extremely low — not the specific timeline.