Pieter Levels He is a Dutch developer and entrepreneur known for being a defender of the lifestyle of the digital nomad who works remotely. A decade ago, he created NOMAD LISTplatform and online community designed for digital nomads, and Remote oka website of remote works, but it has been in the last two years when it has achieved a greater projection with projects based on artificial intelligence. Interior.ai Use AI for interior design and Photo.AI To create realistic and personalized photos. But none of all the aforementioned projects is generating so many profits and in as little time as the last one you have done: a Flight simulator that is played in the browser for free.
Fly.pieter.com It has just over two weeks of life. Since it was launched on February 24, it has reached the 31,000 players in a dayit has at least 50 always connected and More than 300,000 people have tried the game. But the most surprising thing is that Levels has done everything with AI and having the first functional prototype only took half an hour. Polish it a little more to be ready to put it online, a little more: 3 hours.
Is already generating almost € 65,000 per month thanks to sponsorships that are advertised in the game. Levels already had a broad base of followers in social media, but a retuit that made Elon Musk He triggered interest in him.
Ok it’s done, you can play it at
✈️ https://t.co/6tyhkaj8lb
I’VE Never Ever Made A Game Before and Just Made My Own Flight Simulator 100% With Cursor In I’d Say 3 Hours By Just Telling It What I Wted
It Didn’t Go 100% Smooth ofc, But 80% YES, A Few Times I had to go back to … https://t.co/psql37c8zfpic.twitter.com/hedo7O6ppz
– @levelsio (@levelsio) February 22, 2025
To carry out his video game, Levels has used Cursorwhich is a programming environment with ia in which you indicate to artificial intelligence what you want to do with natural language. The chatbots used in Cursor were Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Grok 3 and the initial prompt, of the simplest: ‘Make a 3D flying game in the browser with skyscraper’ ‘. The result is A single HTML file with javascript that contains the entire game and that has been perfecting since then. Thus, what began as only a simulator has become A MMO (Male Multiplayer Online) with fighting between players in an open world with day and night cycles.
While the Levels game is a flight simulator, do not expect to find an experience similar to Flight Simulator of Microsoft. It is a simulator of Very simple graphics, reminiscent of Minecraft, and basic operationin which you can choose between three plane models-one of payment, an F-16 for $ 29.99, which far exceeds the abilities of the rest-a tank-which does not raise the flight-and an alien triangle that move Between structures, balloons and airships with logos of the simulator sponsorships.
Entertaining for Burose or kill time a little “You don’t have loading times, what helps,” and be aware of How AI is opening new possibilities. Levels himself, who has already commented that You don’t know how much this interest will last in your projectsee it that way.
Despite its good reception, the game has also found critics. Max Yankova developer with experience in software and games, commented that the simulator was a rudimentary prototype and that make it scalable, polished and comparable to simulators established as Microsoft Flight Simulator I would require ‘100-1000 times more effort’. His argument was that, although impressive as AI experiment, the project lacked technical depth and It should not be overvalued as a ‘complete game’.
To which Levels replied: ‘The guardians of the essences like this guy say that you need 1000X more effort to do something “real.” I say: make it fast, make it fun, learn and earn money. I don’t need your permission ‘.