Cory Zue

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/...

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 😅

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...

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-...

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...

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...

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...

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/

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...

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!

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...

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.

"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...

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.

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...

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...

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.

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.

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...

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...

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.

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

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/

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

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!

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!

🚀 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).

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.

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!