#6: From CTO to Indiehacker with Cory Zue

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In this episode Cory tells us about his journey to become a CTO of Dimagi, then going full indiehacker with his Django Projects: Place Card Me, SaaS Pegasus, Repo Story and other project. We also talk about writing habits, code quality and best practices, learning new language, python best practices and other fun topics. You will learn a ton about being a Django indiehacker from this conversation.
**Timestamps**

0:00 - Introduction
0:40 - Cory's Background
4:00 - As a CTO you learned from you colleagues or they from you?
5:59 - Cory's and Mine Milestones in Indiehacking Journeys
7:10 - Cory's Writing Habit
11:00 - How did you end up living in South Africa
12:30 - The Story behind SaaS Pegasus name
13:20 - What is SaaS Pegasus
15:10 - Does anyone review your code?
16:40 - How are you think about Best Practices?
21:30 - Learning from community of customers
22:40 - What is the source of most of your clients?
25:15 - Charging Corporations
26:30 - Roadmap for SaaS Pegasus
30:58 - Other Projects Cory works on, Repo Story
35:15 - Learning Different Programming Languages
37:40 - How you think about business logic in Django
39:30 - How you deploy project?
41:40 - Django ORM vs SQL
42:35 - How you handle backups?
42:50 - CBV vs FBV
44:50 - Outro

**Links**

• Cory's Personal Website
• SaaS Pegasus
• Dimagi
• Jonathan Jackson
• Chris Oliver
• Jumstart Rails
• RepoStory
• Chat Stats
• Place Card Me
• Built with Django
• Rasul Kireev