New SaaS From Scratch - Building SaaS with Python and Django #160

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In this episode, I started a brand new SaaS project from scratch. This new SaaS, a journal service that will be at journeyinbox.com, will allow users to journal via email and be provided with past posts as a engaging prompt.

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New SaaS Signup - Building SaaS with Python and Django #161

In this episode, we dug into the first portion of the journey SaaS. I acquired the domain name of journeyinbox.com for this service. That service is not live yet. We started at the beginning …

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Python Exercises and Behind the Scenes - Building SaaS with Python and Django #159

In this episode, we covered more intro Python exercises from Exercism. Then I did some behind the scenes work to make some improvements to my stream content.

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