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Ask HN: What did you make in Django?

by pythonbull on 10/29/16, 5:05 PM with 14 comments

• by DrkSephy on 10/29/16, 6:15 PM

  A while back I created the Django Hackathon Starter [1] which was aimed to be a general boilerplate providing several out-of-the box OAuth hooks and API examples. It hasn't been updated recently, but was a pretty fun project to work on at the time.

  [1] https://github.com/DrkSephy/django-hackathon-starter

• by captainmuon on 10/29/16, 9:12 PM

  I made a bunch of things in Django as side projects, but unfortunately haven't managed to launch anything. One reason is that I don't have enough time due to my day job, and another is that I loose interest when these side projects become hard :-/. But anyway:

  - A version of caniuse.com, but for modern C++

  - A website for going out in my city, scraping the web for events and displaying it all in one place (e.g. 80s night here, techno there, ...)

  - A real life bugtracker for my city. There is a pothole / ridiculous intersection / missing playground? Open an issue! I think this one especially has potential.

  Django makes it easy for data-centric sites. Just whip up a few models and templates, and start adding data using the admin interface, or by scraping.

• by admtal on 10/29/16, 7:44 PM

  I built a dating site with django.

  It's no longer maintained, and most likely not functioning, but still running on Heroku. (tangerine.herokuapp.com)

  Here is what it looked like : http://imgur.com/a/aOgf1

• by tedmiston on 10/29/16, 6:09 PM

  I've built a couple dozen projects in Django, mostly closed source or for private companies. It's a really powerful framework for web apps, APIs (with DRF), and the ORM is very quick to get a prototype running as well. Django is awesome.

• by scot_hacker on 11/1/16, 6:14 AM

  I created the life-goal sharing site bucketlist.org in Django about six years ago. Super fun side project. Maintained it myself for a couple of years, then sold it to some passionate investors who have done a good job keeping it alive and thriving.

  I've also created several university web sites and intranets, worked for years on a journalism project/publication, and am currently working on a massive Django-driven portal for an arts college in California.

• by s_kilk on 10/29/16, 7:01 PM

  Not something I created from scratch, but I had the chance to work on a very large Django codebase at TVSquared.

  We ended up taking out most of stock Django and only using the router and controller functions.

• by babayega2 on 10/30/16, 5:14 AM

  I started working on a Django project, customizing RapidSMS [0]. It worked so well, and we moved to the next iteration of SMS platform called RapidPro [1], building dashboards in Django to display data collected.

  DRF+AngularJs is the killer here.

  [0] : https://www.rapidsms.org [1] : http://app.rapidpro.io

• by danialtz on 10/29/16, 8:32 PM

  We built a multi-lingual platform on top of Django (e.g. https://www.caremondo.com/en/orthopaedics/ being the main app), which was recently acquired. Apart from form-handling facepalms, the rest has been quite a breeze.

• by rayalez on 10/29/16, 9:59 PM

  A platform for publishing fiction:

  http://fictionhub.io

  A website where you can discover educational videos:

  http://lumiverse.io

• by wayn3 on 10/29/16, 6:15 PM

  Nothing. Its just as much of a turd as Rails is. Using flask instead for simple apps.