Mitchell "Sk1er" Katz

Founder / CEO of various projects

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Years of Experience

My Journey

It begins: Sk1er.club Launch

2016

Levelhead Mod

May 2017

Keystrokes Mod

Dec 2017

Project Lead of Hyperium Client

Summer 2018

Sk1er LLC Formalization

August 2018

High School Graduation & 100k YouTube Subscribers

Jun 2019

Patcher: The Powerhouse Utility

Jul 2020

Pivot to Essential

2020-2024

Graduation & Recognition

May 2023

Director, Advisor, and Exit

2024-2025

Looking Ahead

2025

My Ethos

Building in Public

Open-beta tests, YouTube/X posts, and Hypixel forum threads collect valuable feedback from users to optimize the product with.

Open & Transparent Development

Fostering community trust through open-source projects, enabling collaboration, user-auditing of code, and inspiring new developers

Passion-Led Entrepreneurship

Crafting tools I wanted for my own play—and sharing them—grew organically into ventures like Sk1er LLC and Essential, showing how passion projects can evolve into sustainable businesses.

Project Portfolio

A selection of my most impactful projects.

Essential

PlatformFeatured

A comprehensive Minecraft platform with social features, cosmetics, and free multiplayer world hosting, serving as the successor to the Sk1er mod ecosystem.

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Sk1er.club

WebFeatured

The central hub for Sk1er mods, providing downloads, documentation, and web-based tools like Hypixel player stats lookups.

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Patcher

PerformanceQoLFeatured

A Forge mod that fixes over 40 vanilla Minecraft bugs, improves performance, and adds numerous quality-of-life enhancements.

LevelHead

QoLHypixelFeatured

Displays Hypixel Network statistics (Level, Kills, etc.) above player heads, in chat, and in the tab list.