Built with Django Podcast: Recent Episodes
Rasul Kireev
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
In this episode Alireza takes us on a journey of building a blogging platform with Django. On that journey he shares how he learnt to fight spammers and bad actors with ML. We also discuss time based feeds vs AI feeds, learning new programming languages, and hosting your own servers.
Timestamps
0:00 - Introduction
1:13 - Did your journey start with Django?
7:46 - Computer Programming Experience from 80s
9:15 - My personal programming learning journey
11:10 - Alireza's first Django experience
15:00 - How do you learn new things?
21:55 - Self taught vs University
23:30 - GoNevis
26:00 - AI vs Time Feeds
34:30 - Users on GoNevis
36:05 - How do people find GoNevis?
40:10 - Hosting
47:15 - Is GoNevis the main project for you?
48:15 - Integrating Machine Learning
55:40 - FBV vs. CBV
57:50 - Contributing to Django
1:00:50 - Web3
1:05:50 - Wrapping Up
1:09:20 - Advice for people starting the Django journey
Links
- GoNevis (BwD Profile)
- Alireza Savand (BwD Profile)
In this episode Cody shares his experience building gaming related websites with Django while building. We also talk about balancing between hobbies and work.
Timestamps
- 0:00 - Introduction
- 0:25 - Why Django?
- 1:46 - Experience learning and using Django
- 3:29 - Using Django with Javascript
- 6:55 - When was your aha moment with Django
- 9:42 - How does Django compare to other frameworks?
- 11:20 - FBV vs. CBV
- 11:24 - How do you host?
- 14:50 - Armory Gaming Gear
- 17:49 - Designing Web Pages
- 19:30 - Build Length
- 20:08 - Marketing / First Users
- 21:54 - gaminglist.co
- 23:20 - Building games with Django
- 24:54 - gaminglist.co
- 26:50 - Trophy
- 29:30 - Board Games
- 30:25 - Advice for Django Beginners
- 32:04 - Wrapping up
Links
- Modern Javascript for Django Developers
- Two Scoops of Django
- VULTR
- DigitalOcean
- Gaming List
- Armory Gaming Gear
- Wits & Wagers
Timestamps
0:00 - Intro
2:00 - Why Django?
5:00 - Cashflow Careers
7:14 - Working with APIs
8:30 - Redis, Celery, RabbitMQ
9:30 - Hosting
10:40 - Revenue and Progress
12:56 - Books about Finance
13:30 - Other Projects
15:00 - D3.js and Javascript
18:25 - Learning Django
22:10 - Django Learning Resources
24:30 - Quantopian
25:50 - Future Plans
28:44 - Last Thoughts
Links
- Redis, RabbitMQ, Celery
- Heroku
- Corey Shafer
- Digital Ocean
- D3.js
- Newline / Fullstack.io
- Amelia Wattenberger
- React.js
- Vue.js
- Django
- Will Vincent
- Sentdex
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Today I'm interviewing Alex Krupp. Alex is the founder of FWD:Everyone, a service that allows you to share email within private repositories. In this episode, we talk about his journey as a solo founder. He tells us about his experience learning and using Django for his project. Hope you enjoy this episode of the Built with Django podcast.
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Welcome to the Built with Django podcast. Today I'm interviewing Alexander Isora. Alex is the founder of Unicorn Platform, a landing page builder for startups. In this episode, we talk about his journey as a solo founder. He tells us about his experience learning and using Django for his project. Alex also shares his favorite resources when learning Django. We also talked a bit about his process for launching the Unicorn Platform as well as attracting retaining new users. I hope you enjoy this conversation with Alex.
If you would like to support the project, you can do this via my Github Sponsors page.
This episode is sponsored by... Just kidding, this is the first episode and no one sponsors this show, and I don't think anyone will any time soon :D. However, I would love to mention another project of mine I'm working on.
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This is a pilot / intro episode. Here I go over things that listeners can expect from this podcast.