Cory Zue

@czue
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Went from CTO to indie hacker, and now building a solopreneur empire one business at a time. Currently growing https://saaspegasus.com and https://scriv.ai #django

📢 🇬🇷 DjangoCon Europe 2026 is coming to Athens, Greece!

From April 15–19, 2026, our Django passions, curiosities and explorations will converge in the historic city of Athens for Europe's leading Django community event. Are you ready?

đź”— Explore what's in the works: https://2026.djangocon.eu/

#DjangoConEurope2026 #DjangoConEU #django #python

It’s easy to build in public when things are going well.

It sucks when things aren’t.

After eight years of growth, 2025 was the first year where my income from my products went down.

In my year-in-review I wrote about how this impacted my year and what it might mean for my future.

https://www.coryzue.com/writing/the-line/

When the line stops going up

As the world changes, my solopreneur career may be in jeopardy

Goodbye Webpack, Hello Vite đź‘‹

I've updated "Modern JavaScript for Django Developers" with what I feel is the best front end setup for Django in 2025.

You can find a write up, including links to a video walkthrough and OSS repo, here: https://www.saaspegasus.com/guides/modern-javascript-for-django-developers/integrating-javascript-pipeline-vite/

#django

Adding Vite to Django, so you can use Modern JavaScript, React, and Tailwind CSS

The nuts and bolts of integrating a Vite front-end pipeline into a Django project—and using it to create some simple "Hello World" applications with Vite, React, and Tailwind CSS.

SaaS Pegasus
Please publish and share more

Friends, I encourage you to publish more, indirectly meaning you should write more and then share it. It’d be best to publish your work in some evergreen space where you control the domain and URL. Then publish on masto-sky-formerly-known-as-linked-don and any place you share and comment on. You don’t have to change the world with every post. You might publish a quick thought or two that helps encourage someone else to try something new, listen to a new song, or binge-watch a new series.

How I develop Django applications: my dev setup in 2024.

TL;DR: Services run in Docker, code runs natively + Cursor.

#django

https://www.coryzue.com/writing/django-dev/

How I develop Django applications

Documenting my Django dev set up in 2024.

Server monitoring—like data backups—is one of those things never really know you need until it’s too late. And then you really wish you had it.

Here's how I set up monit on my servers to let me know when things are going wrong.

https://buff.ly/3YbwY3L

Using monit for simple server monitoring

Small steps to avoid big problems.

A year ago I published a video showing how to deploy #Django to a $5/mo VPS with Kamal in 20 minutes.

I just re-did it with Kamal 2 and cut the time in half!

Love this progress.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtzCcZRESQ0

Deploy Django to any VPS in 10 minutes with Docker, Kamal 2 and SaaS Pegasus

YouTube

Deploying (Multiple) Django Apps to a Single Server with Kamal 2.

https://buff.ly/400tuUe

Deploying (Multiple) Django Apps to a Single Server with Kamal 2

Shared servers for the win!

Lowering the bar to writing online: https://buff.ly/3XXn6Kz
Lowering the bar to writing online

Be more like Simon Willison and less like Paul Graham

This is the time of the year when you can contribute to the rapid development of the Django framework and get a professional IDE for your Django development.

Until October 7, buy PyCharm at a 30% discount, and an amount equal to your purchase will be donated to the Django Software Foundation.

Link: https://jb.gg/e742yn

Support the Django Software Foundation by buying PyCharm at a 30% Discount

During this campaign, buy PyCharm Pro with a 30% discount code and all money raised will go to the DSF’s general fundraising and Django Fellowship program

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