Vite documentary companion pod (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

Our friends at Cult.Repo launch their epic Vite documentary on October 9th, 2025! To celebrate, Jerod sat down with Evan You to discuss Vite’s adoption story, why he raised money to start VoidZero, how developer documentaries get made, open source sustainability, and more.

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Featuring:

• Evan You – Website, GitHub, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• Vite: the documentary
• Vite | next generation frontend tooling
• Viteconf 2025
• Voidzero

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Chapter

1. Welcome to The Changelog (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Depot (00:01:09)

https://depot.dev

3. Start the show! (00:03:21)

4. Vite's original vision (00:04:14)

5. Vite contenders (00:08:11)

6. Not just for Vue (00:10:40)

7. When Vite took off (00:15:12)

8. Evan and Vue (00:17:44)

9. Sponsor: Fabi.ai (00:19:24)

https://www.fabi.ai

10. Fostering communities (00:21:35)

11. What contributors get (00:27:12)

12. StackBlitz BTS (00:28:54)

13. The documentary (00:30:29)

14. Funding the doc (00:33:17)

15. Sponsor: Miro (00:35:57)

https://miro.com

16. The path to VoidZero (00:37:07)

17. Funding sources (00:41:21)

18. Why VoidZero? (00:46:00)

19. VoidZero's business (00:55:25)

20. Vite+ (01:01:55)

21. No servers required (01:06:02)

22. Biz model details (01:06:37)

23. Reproducible success (01:08:06)

24. Wrapping up (01:09:49)

25. Closing thoughts (01:10:47)

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