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Cory Zue

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Cory Zue is a software developer, aspiring entrepreneur, and occasional blogger. He's currently working at Dimagi and launching projects on the side. | Cory Zue

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200 from 27 Mar 2017 to 15 Oct 2026
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2026 3

  1. Parenting, eight years in
  2. Software got weird
  3. How I’m writing code in 2026

2025 13

  1. What happened in 2025
  2. When the line stops going up
  3. Six-word statements of gratitude
  4. How to disable CloudFlare proxying when you can’t access the dashboard
  5. Using Claude in Github: Hype and Reality
  6. Mentally preparing for the age of superintelligence
  7. I spent the last day using MCP and it kind of blew my mind
  8. Fixing Django's APPEND_SLASH behavior with Kamal
  9. Your Life in Weeks
  10. How will AI impact software boilerplate businesses?
  11. How to Train an AI Image Model on Yourself
  12. Using Coding Skills to Make Passive Income
  13. Headspace is Perishable

2024 14

  1. Solopreneurship: Year 8
  2. Sales, Fears, and Taking a Break
  3. Adding Bluesky-powered comments to any website in five minutes
  4. Enabling WiFi Calling on a Google Pixel on any network
  5. How I develop Django applications
  6. Using monit for simple server monitoring
  7. Deploying (Multiple) Django Apps to a Single Server with Kamal 2
  8. Lowering the bar to writing online
  9. Time Wealth
  10. Five Years of Parenting
  11. Flailing around
  12. The retro is dead, long live the retro!
  13. The Things that Matter
  14. Narrowing Focus

2023 7

  1. Solopreneurship: Year 7
  2. The Sport of Indie Hacking
  3. The Slow Death of Authenticity in an Attention Economy
  4. Introducing Scriv
  5. AI is Eating my Life
  6. Quit Monkey, Grit Monkey
  7. Re-entering the Arena

2022 14

  1. Farewell, Building in Public
  2. Rolling up the Sleeves
  3. The Break
  4. Tailwinds
  5. The Rebound
  6. Complacent
  7. Shifting Perspectives
  8. Rescuing the Art of Disagreement
  9. The Almost-Lost Month
  10. Doing hard things
  11. Back on the Horse
  12. A Five-Year Journey to Financial Freedom...and Beyond
  13. Redirection
  14. Coming Clean

2021 13

  1. Holy Crap!
  2. My New Secret Life
  3. Momentum
  4. The Quarantine
  5. What to do when no one tells you what to do anymore
  6. Diversification
  7. I'm finally going solo*
  8. It's time to build
  9. My first $100k
  10. The Lost Month
  11. The Flop
  12. Off to the Races
  13. The Future is Wide Open

2020 19

  1. Riding the Indie Business Rollercoaster
  2. Lessons from Running a Sale that Earned 3 Month's Profit in a Week
  3. Gratitude
  4. How to Save the World
  5. Oct 2020
  6. On Being a New Parent...Again
  7. Sailing into the future
  8. Satisfaction, but feeling of uselessness
  9. The Calm Before the Storm
  10. I'm building a new product!
  11. What goes up...
  12. A Great Month (while the world burned)
  13. Viruses and Lockdowns, Part 2
  14. Viruses and Lockdowns
  15. Place Cards, Profits, and my 15 Minutes of Internet Fame
  16. The Place Card Pivot
  17. Getting my First Subscription Revenue - in Five Days
  18. Closing out 2019
  19. The Master Plan

2019 14

  1. My Most Profitable Month Ever
  2. One Year of Being a Parent
  3. What do we do when we fall off the horse?
  4. My Icarus Journey
  5. Everything Kind of Clicking into Place 🤞
  6. 30 Days of Accountability
  7. The Horse Finally Learns to Fly
  8. The Indie Hackers "30 Days of Growth" challenge
  9. Done is better than perfect (unless you have imposter syndrome)
  10. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
  11. Lost in the woods of product development
  12. Building a Saas Template is Hard
  13. Recalibrating Expectations
  14. New Year, New Retro

2018 40

  1. A Tale of Two Years: The Struggle between Freelancing and Entrepreneurship
  2. The New Normal
  3. On Being a New Parent
  4. He's Here!
  5. The Wait
  6. Stop worrying about edge cases
  7. That strange feeling when everything sort of seems to be working
  8. Climbing SaaS Mountain
  9. Milestones, working for others, and committing to side projects
  10. Weariness
  11. The Long Road to Passive Income Part 3: Expectations vs Reality
  12. The retro is dead. Long live the retro!
  13. A Tale of Two Months
  14. GoGoGo!
  15. This is Barely a Retrospective
  16. The Grind
  17. New month, new beginnings
  18. Ebbs and flows
  19. The Problem with a Comfortable Career
  20. Attempting to Write Again
  21. A Break
  22. Heads down in India
  23. Doing the bull dance, feeling the flow
  24. Week 56 Retrospective
  25. Week 55 Retrospective
  26. Week 54 Retrospective
  27. Week 53 Retrospective
  28. Week 52 Retrospective
  29. Week 51 Retrospective
  30. Week 50 Retrospective
  31. Week 49 Retrospective
  32. Week 48 Retrospective
  33. Week 47 Retrospective
  34. Week 46 Retrospective
  35. Week 45 Retrospective
  36. Week 44 Retrospective
  37. Week 43 Retrospective
  38. Week 42 Retrospective
  39. My Plans and Goals for 2018
  40. Week 41 Retrospective

2017 63

  1. The Year Everything Changed
  2. Week 40 Retrospective
  3. Week 39 Retrospective
  4. Week 38 Retrospective
  5. The Long Road to Passive Income Part 2: Getting from $100 to $1000 in Monthly Revenue
  6. Week 37 Retrospective
  7. Week 36 Retrospective
  8. Week 35 Retrospective
  9. Week 34 Retrospective
  10. The Long Road to Passive Income Part 1: Getting to $100 in Monthly Revenue
  11. Week 33 Retrospective
  12. Week 32 Retrospective
  13. Week 31 Retrospective
  14. Week 30 Retrospective
  15. SEO for Developers: Reaching the Front Page of Google without being Spammy
  16. Week 29 Retrospective
  17. Week 28 Retrospective
  18. The Future
  19. Week 27 Retrospective
  20. Week 26 Retrospective
  21. The Secret Formula for Getting Traction from Your Writing
  22. Week 25 Retrospective
  23. Week 24 Retrospective
  24. Week 23 Retrospective
  25. What actually goes into making your first dollar from a SaaS project
  26. Week 22 Retrospective
  27. Week 21 Retrospective
  28. Week 20 Retrospective
  29. When Your Business Refuses to Make Money
  30. Week 19 Retrospective
  31. Week 18 Retrospective
  32. Week 17 Retrospective
  33. On Sabbaticals, Goals, the Future, and Finding Happiness
  34. Week 16 Retrospective
  35. Week 15 Retrospective
  36. Week 14 Retrospective
  37. Week 13 Retrospective
  38. Week 12 Retrospective
  39. The Best of Your Life
  40. MVP Pricing
  41. Week 11 Retrospective
  42. I Spent a Week Yak Shaving Instead of Running a Pricing Test
  43. Week 10 Retrospective
  44. Validating an Idea is Hard: Part 2
  45. Week 9 Retrospective
  46. Testing an MVP with Google Ads and Analytics
  47. Week 8 Retrospective
  48. Validating an Idea is Hard
  49. Week 7 Retrospective
  50. Week 6 Retrospective
  51. The Place Card Teardown
  52. The Place Card Pitch
  53. Week 5 Retrospective
  54. Solopreneur Sabbatical: Month One
  55. Week 4 Retrospective
  56. Product Dating
  57. Week 3 Retrospective
  58. Getting People out of MailChimp Limbo
  59. The Art of Working Alone
  60. Week 2 Retrospective
  61. Six Product Ideas
  62. The Solopreneur Sabbatical
  63. Week 1 Retrospective