https://kdpisda.in/tag/directus/Recent content in Directus on Kuldeep PisdaHugoen-usSat, 07 Feb 2026 10:00:00 +0530https://kdpisda.in/extending-directus-with-django-strangler-pattern/Sat, 07 Feb 2026 10:00:00 +0530https://kdpisda.in/extending-directus-with-django-strangler-pattern/<p>By the time the paying-user number stopped being arguable, we had earned the right to build the real thing. Three months of the FastAPI proxy hack had turned &ldquo;would anyone actually pay for a course?&rdquo; into a hard number — roughly 6,000 users on the Happy Thoughts platform, about one in ten of them paying — and those same three months had turned the proxy itself into something I no longer trusted. The two facts arrived together, and that was the whole signal: demand was proven, and the thing holding it up was creaking exactly as a hack should.</p>https://kdpisda.in/ship-first-directus-mvp-happy-thoughts/Thu, 08 Jan 2026 10:00:00 +0530https://kdpisda.in/ship-first-directus-mvp-happy-thoughts/<p>The uncertainty that started this whole thing was not technical. It was a business question wearing an engineering costume: <em>would anyone actually pay to take spiritual-education courses online?</em></p> <p>Tejgyan Foundation is a non-profit. Its teachers had spent years running courses, recording audios, and filming long-form video sessions, consumed mostly on phones, mostly in India, in Hindi and English. The content existed and the audience existed. What did not exist was any evidence that the audience would pull out a card and pay for that content packaged as an online platform. Nobody in the room knew. Including me.</p>