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Cory Zue @coryzue.com · 22/06/2026

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/...

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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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Cory Zue @coryzue.com · 10/06/2026

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 😅

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

Make comics featuring anyone in the world with AI.

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Cory Zue @coryzue.com · 03/02/2026

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...

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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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Cory Zue @coryzue.com · 30/12/2025

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-...

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When the line stops going up

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

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Cory Zue @coryzue.com · 19/12/2025

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!

Receipt showing donation to the Django Software Foundation

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Cory Zue @coryzue.com · 27/11/2025

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...

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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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Cory Zue @coryzue.com · 25/11/2025

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.

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Cory Zue @coryzue.com · 24/11/2025

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...

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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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Cory Zue @coryzue.com · 20/11/2025

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.

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Cory Zue @coryzue.com · 19/11/2025

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...

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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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Cory Zue @coryzue.com · 16/10/2025

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/

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What I'm doing now

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

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Cory Zue @coryzue.com · 10/09/2025

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...

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Add Agents to your Web Applications with Pydantic AI and Django

YouTube video by Cory Zue

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Cory Zue @coryzue.com · 19/08/2025

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.

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Django @djangoproject.com · 31/07/2025

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!

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Djangonaut Space is looking for contributors to be mentors

Posted by Djangonaut Space session organizers on July 31, 2025

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Douglas Bridges @dougbridgesesq.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

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...

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

YouTube video by Cory Zue

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Cory Zue @coryzue.com · 04/06/2025

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.

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Cory Zue @coryzue.com · 02/06/2025

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.

lifeweeks.app

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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Cory Zue @coryzue.com · 30/05/2025

"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...

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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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Cory Zue @coryzue.com · 26/05/2025

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.

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Cory Zue @coryzue.com · 23/05/2025

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

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Cory Zue @coryzue.com · 22/05/2025

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

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Jan Builds Digital @janbuildsdigital.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

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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Cory Zue @coryzue.com · 16/05/2025

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!

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Cory Zue @coryzue.com · 15/05/2025

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...

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Vite and Django: Why I've ditched Webpack

YouTube video by Cory Zue

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Cory Zue @coryzue.com · 08/05/2025

SaaS Pegasus spotted in Times Square!

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Cory Zue @coryzue.com · 07/05/2025

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...

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

YouTube video by Cory Zue

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Cory Zue @coryzue.com · 05/05/2025

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!

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Cory Zue @coryzue.com · 01/05/2025

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

https://xkcd.com/303/ with "compiling" replaced by "AI's working"

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Cory Zue @coryzue.com · 30/04/2025

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.

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Cory Zue @coryzue.com · 27/04/2025

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.

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Cory Zue @coryzue.com · 25/04/2025

The latest code change I made took 15 mins to vibe code and then 3 hours to clean up so I understood how it worked and knew I could maintain it moving forwards. I believe that effort was worth it, but man, it would be so freeing to work on throwaway projects all the time.

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Cory Zue @coryzue.com · 24/04/2025

🚀 Pegasus 2025.4.1 is out! This is another jam-packed release with major upgrades to teams, the react front end, and the stripe webhook setup. The release notes are 1500 words long and have two video walkthroughs. 😶 docs.saaspegasus.com/release-note...

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Version History and Release Notes - Pegasus documentationContentsMenuExpandLight modeDark modeAuto light/dark mode

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Cory Zue @coryzue.com · 14/04/2025

One reason JS frameworks are so popular is that they delay the pain and complexity of web apps past the "gotcha" moment of success. Django, Rails et. al. are great in steady state, but hit you with the complexity out of the gate, which discourages beginners.

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Cory Zue @coryzue.com · 04/04/2025

So I spent the last day using MCP and it kind of blew my mind. Five lines of JSON can now replace multi-million dollar SaaS companies. Here's my writeup, including how you can start using it in minutes. www.coryzue.com/writing/holy...

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I spent the last day using MCP and it kind of blew my mind

Five lines of JSON can now replace multi-million dollar SaaS companies.

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Cory Zue @coryzue.com · 31/03/2025

Just published a short video about how I built the anonymous onboarding flow for Life in Weeks. Letting people play with your app before sign up is one of the best way to get more conversions - especially in B2C. And it's not hard to build (in Django)! www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFnE...

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User Onboarding Tips and Tricks for Django Developers

YouTube video by Cory Zue

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Cory Zue @coryzue.com · 31/03/2025

I added a few example timelines to lifeweeks.app and they make for some interesting comparisons! For instance, Obama was a surprisingly late bloomer, giving his DNC speech at 42 and only becoming senator at 43. At 42, Elon had already exited PayPal and had been running Tesla and SpaceX for years.

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Cory Zue @coryzue.com · 31/03/2025

How it can feel building a product in the era of vibes.

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Cory Zue @coryzue.com · 25/03/2025

I was frustrated how hard it is to understand Stripe fees, refunds, etc. so I vibe-coded a little tool to show me the information I wanted for my account data. It runs in the browser and takes 2 mins to use on your own data. You can try it here: www.saaspegasus.com/stripe-fees/

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Stripe Fee Analyzer

Get a detailed breakdown on your revenue and fees from your Stripe account.

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Django @djangoproject.com · 14/03/2025

Each month, we're showcasing a DSF member to help you get to know the community better. This month, we're featuring Cory Zue ( @coryzue.com ), member of the Social Media Working Group! 💚 👉www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025... #DSFMemberOfTheMonth #DSF #django

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Cory Zue @coryzue.com · 13/03/2025

In the two weeks since launch, lifeweeks.app has had an average of 45 signups per day with essentially zero promotion. Pretty nice having a product with a built-in viral sharing loop!

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Cory Zue @coryzue.com · 11/03/2025

You can now use lifeweeks.app in French, Spanish, and Chinese. Translations are AI-generated so they're probably not great, but hopefully good enough! Also getting some help from native-speaking volunteers to make it better!

lifeweeks.app

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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Cory Zue @coryzue.com · 10/03/2025

🚀 bluesky-comments 0.10 is out! This release adds major accessibility improvements for navigating the comment section, courtesy of @jasonbyday.bsky.social (who is really living up to his bio).

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Cory Zue @coryzue.com · 05/03/2025

When use cursor compose or claude code, I spend way less time coding and more time doing code review. Which... kind of sucks? More efficient but also less fun. Kinda reminds me of my time as a team lead.

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Cory Zue @coryzue.com · 02/03/2025

Woke up today to a ton of lifeweeks.app sign ups. Checked Hacker News and my launch post that totally flopped is now on the front page with an edited timestamp. Bless the HN mod that gave it a second chance!

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Cory Zue @coryzue.com · 28/02/2025

🚀 New Pegasus release is out today! 🧹Cleans up the CSS setup ⚙️ More configurable Git repo setup 🐎 Introduces better caching defaults 🐞 Squashes loads of bugs ✍️ New docs Big thanks to the many community members who contributed suggestions and fixes to this update.

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Cory Zue @coryzue.com · 27/02/2025

Just added an option to embed your timeline on any site. You can also change the background color to match the theme. Here's how it looks on my own website. Link to source/demo: www.coryzue.com/life/

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Cory Zue @coryzue.com · 26/02/2025

Announcing lifeweeks.app! Use it to make a timeline of your life, where each square is a week. You can color code different life chapters, highlight key events on the timeline and share it with the world. I hope someone out there gets a fraction of the joy using it as I've gotten building it.

Screenshot of https://lifeweeks.app/czue

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Cory Zue @coryzue.com · 24/02/2025

I just spent two hours writing an onboarding email sequence and am infinitely more tired than I am after 10 hours of coding.

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Cory Zue @coryzue.com · 24/02/2025

So the bluesky-comments feature that automatically finds which post to use broke suddenly, I think because of a backend API change that makes the searchPosts API require auth. @emilyliu.me does that sound like a change that might have happened recently? And any suggestions how to work around it?

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Cory Zue @coryzue.com · 21/02/2025

As best I can tell, Kamal's proxy breaks Django's APPEND_SLASH setting, which is super annoying! I just spent 2 hours figuring this out and put together a 10-line workaround to fix it. www.coryzue.com/writing/kama...

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Fixing Django's APPEND_SLASH behavior with Kamal

I spent two hours figuring this out so you don't have to.

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