There is an option for people to own the Djangify eCommerce system outright. Pay once and you don't have to pay the monthly managed hosting fee. You get to manage it all yourself. I don't promote this right now because it will mean supporting people with setting it up. But now, Claude Skills.md to the rescue. Not sure why this has only occurred to me now! Every purchase includes a DEPLOY_WITH_AI.md file, which is a ready-made setup guide you paste into Claude or ChatGPT to turn it into a patient, step-by-step deployment assistant. It walks you through the whole thing in order: your server, the .env file, generating your keys, starting Docker, putting HTTPS in front, logging in, and adding your Stripe keys and first product. One step at a time, waiting for you before it moves on and it never asks you to reveal a password or secret key. A free Claude or ChatGPT account is enough to follow it. Because a full setup is a long back-and-forth, a paid plan makes the session smoother. Prefer a hands-on tool that reads your files and runs the steps with you? There's also an optional Claude Code skill that does exactly that. That path needs a Claude Pro plan or higher. Between the included written documentation and your own AI assistant, you have a guide for every step - you're never left staring at a terminal wondering what's next. Interested in owning your own eCommerce system... https://www.djangify.com/shop/product/self-hosted-digital-ecommerce-platform/

I have added an AI Assistant inside Djangify so that I can ask questions directly on the site. The AI Assistant will use any data available on my site if I use the words "my..." so if I say "How many of my blog posts need an SEO Meta Title added" it will be able to search through my site and tell me. That uses API tokens which costs extra but I have asked loads of questions while testing and only spent $1.50 so far. Eventually I will add all the Djangify documentation inside the site so if someone needs onboarding documentation it will be there. But as there are only a few of us right now it isn't necessary. I have already added the MCP Connector and improved on that. This one doesn't require any extra API tokens. You are using your existing Claude account and it can do work for you - fill things in, create potential blog content etc. All in draft mode so you can read and add your own voice to it of course https://www.skool.com/sell-digital-products-7402/connecting-claude-connector-to-djangify

I am just sharing something I started building last week ☺️ Claude connector You may (or may not) have heard recently that you can connect Claude to apps like Slack. You give Claude permissions and it can work on your behalf, answering questions and doing work moderators are doing. Connectors let Claude plug into other apps and services — so instead of just chatting, Claude can actually go look at (or act on) your real data in those apps. They're built on MCP (Model Context Protocol), an open standard Anthropic created so any AI app can talk to any service in a consistent way. Custom connectors — this is the Djangify-relevant bit Since Djangify isn't a pre-built connector in the directory, what I have done with Cowork is wiring up a custom MCP connector — pointing Claude at my Djangify infrastructure (database, admin API, provisioner, whatever you expose) so Cowork can query or act on it directly. Custom connectors can access anything: internal databases, REST APIs, GraphQL endpoints, proprietary services, file systems — basically Claude connects to my own product. I will be making a video about it. This is the part where I switch to my screen. I have a new Yeti Microphone that is picking up every teeny tiny noise! Its great. I spent 4 hours with Chatty setting up the microphone, OBS for recording video and Divinci for editing.

There are so many different ways to build income from your business and over the years what I have found is that it's the quiet, boring and consistent ways that ultimately provide success. So many different techniques will come and go so find what works for you and just keep at it until it produces the outcome you want. Moving from one thing to another too quickly is what hampered my results. https://youtube.com/shorts/RJ25M2zqHOY?is=BkgbUhtDyf02FwzI

I have had a great week. The results are slow but regular right now. I described having to build your online profile like pushing a snowball uphill. It builds slowly. But when you get to the top and push it down suddenly there is real momentum and it builds quickly and huge! Still fiddling with building stuff - but I do feel like I am at the end of it. The biggest thing was getting Claude working INSIDE of Djangify. Now, when I set up a new store I can give Claude a run down of what the site is about and it will fill in the majority of what needs to be done, including writing a few blog posts. Stuff it won't touch relates to secret keys and information it shouldn't have. I have also decided that Pinterest and YouTube are my main two sources with Substack being a third that I am still not 100% sure about. DJANGIFY AND OTHER WORK While I am not promoting it I don't want to make the same mistake as I did with Inspirational Guidance of not having an audience ready - or at least having an audience but not telling them what I am doing. So the Coach Who Codes YouTube will go live and its mainly to help with promoting how I use Djangify and AI. I am sending everyone to my main portfolio todiane.com UPDATING SEARCH CONSOLE My site in search console identified issues with the way search engines are reading my schema-ld and what I do. Its all very dull but important - if the search engines don't know who I am they won't recommend me - anyway, I fixed it so everything is clear. OUTREARCH ON SOCIAL MEDIA The idea behind being an Independent Digital Business is that we need to bring people to us. That is why I encourage owning your "land" - the place that people land on should belong to you. Platforms, market places and social media - that's where we go to find our people and bring them back to our own site. Outreach is a great way to do that, but it hasn't been fun, more like another step to help me move forward. Reading replies from people looking for what I offer and sending a DM. Sometimes you get a response and most times you don't!!! I only spend 2 hours maximum on this right now.