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Kitze
Personal blog · kitze.io/postsprogrammingstartupsproductivity
Kitze is a personal blog at kitze.io about programming, startups and productivity. Since 2020, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 21 times, most often “GitHub stars won't pay your rent (2020)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link Kitze's posts on indie software and shipping products, such as the story of Sizzy's success, 'github stars won't pay your rent', and the 'zero or one' post on goals.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Developer, entrepreneur, and educator. I build products, teach others how to ship, and share everything I learn along the way.
Most-linked posts?
- GitHub stars won't pay your rent (2020)3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2020-10-16
- GPT-3 is the beginning of the end3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-07-22
- The saddest “just ship it” story (2020)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-07-01
- From Hello World to a production app in 5 days: The magic of Blitz.js2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-09-01
What Hacker News says?
> "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. > Learn…
Comment linking /posts/github-stars-wont-pay-your-rent
on “The saddest “just ship it” story (2020)”Submitted The saddest “just ship it” story (2020) as a story · 571 points
HN discussionYes, he made Sizzy, and it's apparently very successful. Here's the story (quite well told I think): https://kitze.io/posts/github-stars-wont-pay-your-rent
Comment linking /posts/github-stars-wont-pay-your-rent
on “The saddest “just ship it” story (2020)”Submitted GitHub stars won't pay your rent (2020) as a story · 426 points
HN discussioni ended up in the hospital today for some virus sorry i didnt have time to perfectly polish this thing i made in 15 mins with grok bot lmfao and fyi my sponsors are not only for this, they come from https://kitze.io/sponsors :D
Comment linking /sponsors
on “What’s getting pwned right now”Submitted The saddest “Just Ship It” story as a story · 358 points
HN discussionlmfao no, one is my website ( https://tinkerer.club ) and two are actually startups of people who sponsor me @ https://kitze.io/sponsors :D
Comment linking /sponsors
on “What’s getting pwned right now”Submitted The saddest "Just Ship It" story ever (2020) as a story · 266 points
HN discussionhttps://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.
Comment linking /posts/zero-or-one
on “The saddest “Just Ship It” story”Submitted From Hello World to a production app in 5 days: The magic of Blitz.js as a story · 12 points
HN discussion> 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-brea...
Comment linking /posts/codex-electron-app-technical-breakdown
on “Claude Opus 5”Submitted GitHub stars won't pay your rent as a story · 6 points
HN discussionYup, 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
Comment linking /posts/github-stars-wont-pay-your-rent
on “Sizzy – The Browser for Developers”Submitted GitHub stars won't pay your rent (2019) as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted A distraction-free writing environment with minimal controls as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted GPT-3 is the beginning of the end as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted GPT-3 is the beginning of the end as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted From hello world to a production app: the magic of Blitz as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted GPT-3 is the beginning of the end as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The saddest “Just Ship It” story ever as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted But, You're Not Facebook as a story · 1 points
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