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In this episode of Running in Production, Cory Zue goes over buildinga service to create and design place cards for weddings, parties and any otherevents using Django. It’s hosted on a single Linode server and has been upand running since May 2017.Cory talks about trying to avoid over engineering things and this episodespeaks truth to that. His service generates over $2,000 / month and had an MVPworking in ~2 weeks as a solo developer.Topics Include 47:14 – You can find Cory on Twitter @czue and his site is at https://www.coryzue.com/ 47:52 – Check out Cory’s SAAS building tool for Django at https://www.saaspegasus.com/Links📄 References https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Place_card https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_aren%27t_gonna_need_it (YAGNI)⚙️ Tech Stack django → python → react → ansible → lets-encrypt → linode → mailchimp → mailgun → nginx → postgres → redis → sentry → statuscake → stripe → supervisor → ubuntu → 🛠 Libraries Used https://github.com/pyexcel/pyexcel https://github.com/pygments/pygments https://github.com/jazzband/pip-tools https://gunicorn.org/ https://github.com/anymail/django-anymailSupport the ShowThis episode does not have a sponsor and this podcast is a labor of love. If you want to support the show, the best way to do it is to purchase one of my courses or suggest one to a friend. Dive into Docker is a video course that takes you from not knowing what Docker isto being able to confidently use Docker and Docker Compose for your own apps.Long gone are the days of "but it works on my machine!". A bunch of followalong labs are included. Build a SAAS App with Flask is a video course where we build a realworld SAAS app that accepts payments, has a custom admin, includes high testcoverage and goes over how to implement and apply 50+ common web app features.There's over 20+ hours of video.