Hello, world

This site exists because my work kept disappearing. A model in a notebook, a tool that only ever ran on localhost, an idea in a doc that nobody — including me — opened again. Real work, invisible.

The standard fix is to wait: figure out “the product”, buy the perfect domain, launch properly. I have watched that plan fail enough times, mostly inside my own head, to notice that the waiting is the failure. So I inverted it: build the container first, and let it decide nothing about what goes inside.

Hence kaichicken.com — a name with no plan attached. It can hold a research demo, a blog, a tool, a product, or nothing but this post, and it never becomes wrong, because it never promised anything except a chicken.

The stack is deliberately boring: Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind, static files on a CDN. Boring means the site cannot rot faster than I can maintain it. And when a project eventually needs a database, auth, or payments, this stack grows into that instead of being replaced by it.

The rule that keeps a place like this alive is embarrassingly simple: ship small things, often. Every project gets a page, even a rough one. Every note worth keeping gets published, even a short one.

If you can read this, the rule is holding.