SaaS Pegasus is now available open-source! Pegasus's open source edition is a ready-to-use Django project foundation built for the modern era. It's the same project setup that’s powered thousands of apps for 7+ years, now available in an MIT-licensed, customizable core. github.com/saaspegasus/...

GitHub - saaspegasus/django-boilerplate: The original SaaS Boilerplate for Django, trusted by thousands.

The original SaaS Boilerplate for Django, trusted by thousands. - saaspegasus/django-boilerplate

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I made a new app! It's called comicify.me It lets you use the latest AI models to make comic books featuring your family. I've been using it with my kids and it's been super fun. Their favorite part is finding all the mistakes that the AI inevitably makes! Free till I hit my API spending limit 😅

Comicify | Make comics featuring anyone in the world with AI.

Make comics featuring anyone in the world with AI.

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I wrote about how I write code now, which looks nothing like my setup from just a few months ago. www.coryzue.com/writing/codi...

How I'm writing code in 2026

How I write code now looks nothing like my setup from just a few months ago.

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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 products went down. I wrote about how this impacted my year and what it might mean for my future. www.coryzue.com/writing/the-...

When the line stops going up

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

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Just re-upped my @opensourcepledge.com for 2025. If you get value from open source projects, donating a small fraction of your income is a fantastic way to give back to those people whose work you depend on. Thanks to all the open source maintainers who have helped make my career possible!

Happy gratitude day! A quick an easy exercise I recommend is to take a few minutes to come up with a six-word statement of thanks for the day. Here are mine: www.coryzue.com/writing/grat...

Six word statements of gratitude

Cory Zue is a software developer, aspiring entrepreneur, and occasional blogger. He's currently working at Dimagi and launching projects on the side.

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2026: Most code is AI 2027: Most articles are AI 2028: Most images are AI 2029: Most music is AI 2030: Most videos are AI 2031: Most relationships are AI ...I'm too old for this.

Goodbye Webpack, Hello Vite 👋 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: www.saaspegasus.com/guides/moder...

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.

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The SaaS Pegasus Black Friday sale is live! The unlimited license is 50% off ($500 savings). This is a rare deal. I don’t believe in the growth hack thing of having fake discounts running perpetually. I only do sales once a year. If you've been thinking about grabbing Pegasus, this is the time.

Yesterday all of my sites were down. I could have brought them back up by changing one flag in a dashboard, but the dashboard was also down. So I just made sure I'm better prepared if this happens again. Little guide if you want to do the same: www.coryzue.com/writing/clou...

How to disable CloudFlare proxying when you can't access the dashboard

Just in case, you know, CloudFlare goes down or something...

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Just updated my now page, in case you want a quick peek at what's going on in my world these days. www.coryzue.com/now/

What I'm doing now

What I'm up to as of October, 2025.

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I just published a new video showing how to add different agent workflows to your web apps with Pydantic AI. Really awesome framework! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z33I...

Add Agents to your Web Applications with Pydantic AI and Django

YouTube video by Cory Zue

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When someone has a 🤯 moment with AI they often want to share it, but I have basically zero interest in reading other people's AI chats. This phenomenon at scale seems like it could become another way our human experiences get more and more isolated from each other.

The @djangonaut.space team are looking for mentors for their next session, in October - November ⭐️ www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025... An amazing opportunity to improve your skills and help grow the #Django community!

Djangonaut Space is looking for contributors to be mentors

Posted by Djangonaut Space session organizers on July 31, 2025

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For additional in-depth discussion about vibe coding, check out this great YT video by @coryzue.com about using vibe coding with his SAAS Pegasus framework (fantastic Django frame IMO). Very detailed walkthrough of how it worked and how it didn't. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELii...

Vibe Coding with Django, React and Cursor: My Experience and Takeaways

YouTube video by Cory Zue

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I explained to my kids that—unlike most people—I don't get paid on a schedule, but whenever someone decides to buy something from me. Now every time I drop them off at school my 4yo says "bye dad, hope you get some money today!" I wonder what the other parents make of this.

Just sped up lifeweeks.app page loads by more than 10x just by enabling compression on the responses. Whenever I look into performance, I never know if it's going to be a quick one-line change for huge gains, or days of my life lost to rabbit holes and dead ends.

Life in Weeks | Create a map of your life with each week as a little box.

Create a beautiful, rich timeline of your life in just minutes.

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"Yes, it seems like the next step in our progression as a species. Yes, it will lead to progress in science, medicine and technology. And yet, I'm still hoping it doesn’t happen. I think, because I can't figure out my own worth in a world with superintelligence." www.coryzue.com/writing/prep...

What will it feel like living a world where AI is smarter than all of us?

Mentally preparing for the age of superintelligence.

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Lazyweb: If you were spinning up a new docs site today what would you use? Main requirements are that it looks good, is fast, and you can author docs in markdown. Bonus points if it can generate markdown copies of your docs for LLMs.

The latest release of bluesky-comments now optionally links to deer.social profiles (in addition to bsky.app). Thanks @dame.is for the contribution!

When you're supposed to be doing marketing but would rather be coding.

I'm using a SaaS boilerplate from @coryzue.com , and needed tech support a few times. Almost every time, I got a reply right away, and the fix was done in just a day or two.What a speed! I appreciate good customer support way more now that I’m the one providing it.

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Just donated to @grapheneos.org because they’re doing amazing work, and it hit me: Supporting indie hackers and open-source projects hits differently when you’re indie hacking too. You really feel the struggle of running a digital product and how tough it is to push through.

Someone emailed me for support on a Chrome Extension I made and we've had a long back and forth troubleshooting. We haven't figured out of the issue, but we've talked enough that she's now telling me about her life and sending me pictures of her home town. Delightfully random internet encounter!

I've officially ditched Webpack and moved to Vite for my Django projects. Here's a short video explaining why, and how you can set it up yourself: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVwR...

Vite and Django: Why I've ditched Webpack

YouTube video by Cory Zue

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SaaS Pegasus spotted in Times Square!

I challenged myself to vibe code a new app with Django and React. And I learned a lot! These tools are getting really good and learning how to use them well feels like the next phase of software development. More thoughts and takeaways in this video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELii...

Vibe Coding with Django, React and Cursor: My Experience and Takeaways

YouTube video by Cory Zue

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The six stages of vibe-coding: 1. Nice it worked! 2. Huh that part is kinda weird. 3. Wait what is this even doing? 4. Oh I see. Ha. 5. <deletes half the code> 6. Nice, still worked!

This xkcd was published 18 years ago, mostly irrelevant for like a decade as computers got faster, and is now very much back.

I woke up in the middle of the night and texted myself "Maybe human brains are just llms and sleep is when we do training and awake is when we do inference?" I think I need to touch more grass.

I feel like the argument of kids vs no kids was more even before the age of AI, because the "no kids" camp could derive meaning from a career. But if the robots are soon smarter than all of us and doing all the work? Then kids start to feel like the only source of meaning.