Willem van Zoeren (@currentbitsNET) / X

Willem van Zoeren

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Willem van Zoeren

@currentbitsNET

Building an escape route, one app at a time. Systems engineer. Building toward Thailand with my wife.

Netherlands

Joined May 2026

Willem van Zoeren
@currentbitsNET
1h
Feedback: do you have staging? Me:
Willem van Zoeren
@currentbitsNET
4h
Building an escape route, one app at a time. A little introduction Hi, I’m Willem. I’m a systems engineer, married to a wonderful Thai wife. We’re working toward leaving the 9-5 and living in Thailand together. That means shipping real products, not just side projects that never
Willem van Zoeren
@currentbitsNET
6h
Most indie hackers quit when the momentum stops. Not because the idea was bad. Because shipping alone in silence is brutal. The hardest skill in indie hacking isn't coding or design. It's continuing to work on the same project after the initial excitement dies and nobody is
Willem van Zoeren
@currentbitsNET
17h
This is turning into a bit of a passion project. I just keep working on it. Girder = self-hosted git-push PaaS on my own Hetzner boxes. Push → build → zero-downtime deploy → TLS + DB + backups. Tailnet for everything that isn’t 443. Since the last post I’ve shipped
Willem van Zoeren
@currentbitsNET
22h
Why are you actually building? Money. Freedom. Impact. Or something that doesn't fit in those boxes? The real answer shapes everything that comes next. For me it's Freedom