Kitze
kitze.io · Personal blog · on HN since 2020
Kitze, a developer and founder of Sizzy, writes about shipping products, open source economics, React tooling, and AI.
What HN saysHN commenters cite his posts on GitHub stars not paying rent and the Codex Electron app, and one quotes his "Zero or One" essay.
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- 2GitHub stars won't pay your rent (2020)4 people · 437 points · first shared 2020 · 239 comments on HN
- 3GPT-3 is the beginning of the end3 people · 8 points · first shared 2020 · 1 comments on HN
- 4From Hello World to a production app in 5 days: The magic of Blitz.js2 people · 14 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 5A distraction-free writing environment with minimal controls1 people · 4 points · first shared 2025 · 2 comments on HN
- 6But, You're Not Facebook1 people · 1 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
- 7Zero or one1 people · first shared 2020
- 8Codex electron app technical breakdown1 people · first shared 2026
What HN people wrote when they linked it
bambax · 2022-05-12
> "build it and they will come"
I also used to think that build it and they will come was a big fallacy, but it's not really. The fallacy is, "build it and the whole world will fight to get what you built". That sure won't happen by itself or by chance.
But if you build something reasonably good, some people will come. That may not be enough for you to make a living out of it, but it will make it worthwhile.
> Learning things is valuable in itself.
From the same author:
> Open source, writing blog posts, and playing with tweaking lint settings and editor themes all day are completely fine until your landlord knocks on your door or you're at the checkout at the grocery store. You're doing a crazy 2-hour commute every day telling yourself "well at least I'm learning a lot about SVG". Fuck that.
https://kitze.io/posts/github-stars-wont-pay-your-rent
(I am actually, currently learning a lot about SVG and love it; but the quote is right that it's not paying the rent.)
andrekandre · 2026-07-25
> and unwanted React apps
stares at codex "native" app that is actually react/electron [0]
[0] https://www.kitze.io/posts/codex-electron-app-technical-breakdown
thekitze · 2020-10-16
Yup, I wrote about it here:
https://kitze.io/posts/github-stars-wont-pay-your-rent
Now that Sizzy is a company, we can put more time and money into the product. We ship an alpha version every day, and a stable version every week.
Changes are listed here:
https://fungarzione.com/sizzy
lonelygirl15a · 2020-07-09
https://kitze.io/posts/zero-or-one
If you think that's an oversimplified polarization, click on this blog post at the bottom.
"You're either a Zero or a One"
"You have either reached your goal, or you haven't"
In other words, life is a destination, not a journey. Yeah, nah.