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I've developed, maintained, and extended web platforms that all could benefit from what Pegasus seems to do. These platforms have driven up into the million-per

I've developed, maintained, and extended web platforms that all could benefit from what Pegasus seems to do. These platforms have driven up into the million-per-month range of sales for consumer (and team!) based products. The vast majority of the platforms are trash, yet power jaw-dropping amounts of sales and usage. I think it perfectly reasonable that Pegasus has all the underpinnings these kind of platforms would use and greatly benefit from. What kills me is that hosted platforms of this nature tend to either: 1) completely suck; 2) have costs that only large corporations can afford and benefit from. That said... I'm curious what obstacles prevent the author from growing this into a hosted SAAS solution that focuses on enabling externalizing provisioning (e.g. via webhooks) and customized sales flows. It seems like there is a solid foundation in place!

czue 6y ago
I would love to make Pegasus a hosted platform, and it's certainly been at the end of the giant tunnel of work ahead of me in terms of the long-term potential I see. The most concise answer as to why I haven't done it is that I'm just one person, and I'm not smart enough to have figured out how to do it yet in the ~2 years I've been working on Pegasus. To me the huge difference between a code starter kit like Pegasus, versus, e.g. Shopify, Webflow, or any other hosted no/low-code product is that at the end of the day you end up with a codebase that is maintained by developers in a totally standard framework and language that they can do anything with. No code / low code tools are inherently difficult because they have to put in place this firewall/abstraction layer that hinders your ability to customize. The same thing that makes them great for simple things makes them bad for difficult things. So anyway, I think a hosted version of Pegasus should still give the power of anything you want to do with a Python/Django application, and I'm sure that's possible to do in a hosted way, but I find the prospect of building such a thing in a scalable, secure way quite intimidating.
- mr-wendel 6y ago
  My hat off to you, all the same. I hope you find a way to pull it off. What you've already produced is impressive. Cheers for the great response to this and other comments!

czue 6y ago

I would love to make Pegasus a hosted platform, and it's certainly been at the end of the giant tunnel of work ahead of me in terms of the long-term potential I see. The most concise answer as to why I haven't done it is that I'm just one person, and I'm not smart enough to have figured out how to do it yet in the ~2 years I've been working on Pegasus. To me the huge difference between a code starter kit like Pegasus, versus, e.g. Shopify, Webflow, or any other hosted no/low-code product is that at the end of the day you end up with a codebase that is maintained by developers in a totally standard framework and language that they can do anything with. No code / low code tools are inherently difficult because they have to put in place this firewall/abstraction layer that hinders your ability to customize. The same thing that makes them great for simple things makes them bad for difficult things. So anyway, I think a hosted version of Pegasus should still give the power of anything you want to do with a Python/Django application, and I'm sure that's possible to do in a hosted way, but I find the prospect of building such a thing in a scalable, secure way quite intimidating.

mr-wendel 6y ago
My hat off to you, all the same. I hope you find a way to pull it off. What you've already produced is impressive. Cheers for the great response to this and other comments!