What's your Django side project?

Hi! I have two projects that i'm working with django.

First, on my job, on a public institution (scientific also), i'm developing a website to control and monitoring the status of a GNSS (GPS) network, the scheme of all the network and equipment, particular status, etc.

Integrated with celery to generate periodic reports and a view in what we can se the status in real time from every station. Uses last Django version (python 3.7), celery, rabbitmq, postgresql, redis, bulma css(and pure javascript on ui).

Is not published yet because i'm working on details, and maybe only will be disposable by the internal VPN https://gitlab.com/pineiden/dj-webo-collector

The other, is for a personal project with friends about teach technology to common people. https://gitlab.com/pineiden/web-curso-programacion https://www.cursodeprogramacion.cl/

And the plan is build a platform to support education plans, not only teach programming, also workshops or courses of any subjects.

So that, i learned a lot since around six years playing with django and now i think i can manage well.

BR!

I've been working on a small Django project called https://CodeSnippetSearch.net. It allows you to search through code snippets using natural language. Currently, Python, Java, Go, Php, Javascript, and Ruby programming languages are supported.

As with any cool project nowadays, CodeSnippetSearch is powered by neural networks (six in fact - one for each programming language). The project is open-sourced and you can read about the implementation details here: https://github.com/novoselrok/codesnippetsearch

For 6 years I’ve been building Cronitor.io with my best friend and business partner, August.

We started on Django 1.6 and I’ll admit: we liked it so much we stuck with that version for 5 years (ha ha).

Earlier this year we did the mythic trek to Python3 and are enjoying the all the new Django goodies.

August is working full time on Cronitor but for me it’s still technically a “side project” — for now!

Edit: sorry for the dupe! August already posted here.

Related How? (https://relatedhow.kodare.com/) is a site to see how species are related.

It's still quite rough around the edges, mostly due to me being demotivated for not having a good way to host it. Now solved with linode+dokku which I am super happy with.

This is a site i have wanted for decades and I Googled after it every year for a decade before I realized I could build it myself with the data from wikidata.

Code at https://github.com/boxed/relatedhow

Just pushed out the alpha of the 5th edition of our book, which is titled: "Two Scoops of Django 3.x".

Here's the product page: https://www.feldroy.com/products/two-scoops-of-django-3-x

Also working on a book writing app where the file generating service backend is monitored by a Django project. Launches soon!

https://www.circuitlab.com my initial commit with Django is 2011-09-22, last commit is yesterday!

(Though after a very positive developer experience working in Ruby on Rails when I worked at Triplebyte, I'd probably lean toward RoR for a new project.)

Podcast hosting service https://wisecast.fm

I made a webapp called "Disqors" (https://www.disqors.com/latest). It's backend largely runs on Django.

I connect online articles into discussion graphs and intersperse the top tweets about them. There are feeds that filter the discussions in different ways (exchanges among top authors, most discussed articles). It's also possible to see a specific discussion graph in its entirety, e.g. the discussion around Marc Andreessen's "It's Time to Build" essay: https://www.disqors.com/discussions/36672

I'm a lawyer. I found myself writing a lot of legal briefs—but didn't like the Bluebooking and cite-checking part (it's kind of like linting code, but for lawyers and their briefs). So, I used Django to create http://www.cite.ly, which automates the process of checking legal writing for Bluebooking errors and misquotations of case law through a web app.

We turned a 5- to 10-hour process into one that takes 10 minutes!

The app itself is in private beta at this point. We also rely on the software internally while externally offering a service where lawyers send us their briefs and we show them the errors that the software finds :)

I have been working on WebGazer (https://www.webgazer.io) since 2015 and even if the stack got bigger with time, it has Django in its foundation :)

It started as a simple website monitoring product and evolved from there. It enables customers to monitor websites, REST APIs and cron jobs on the same platform. I also added status page functionality (e.g. https://status.webgazer.io) some time ago.

I have a day job but I keep building and hustling at the side. We live off of paychecks from our day jobs but live for our side projects, don't we? :P

I’m working on Postpone, a Django/Vue.js app for scheduling Reddit posts at the right time. https://www.postpone.app/

Im building the webapp for PyATL (python Atlanta group). Progress is slow but steady. Streaming it on https://twitch.com/pyatl (the stream might not be for everyone). Code is at https://github.com/pyatl/big-peach See it live at https://pyatl.dev Note that this is a super bare bones web app right now.

Lately I have been trying to cover more ground in popular Python frameworks since despite many years of using it, most of my experience is scientific programming, "short job" scripts, and a few CLI and GUI tools; now that I am looking for a job, I found that recruiters wouldn't believe me that I am a Python "developer" unless I can point to some web-hosted projects; so I decided to attack Django and Flask simultaneously.

I wrote a machine learning "deployment" microservice using Django, and wrote a client for it in Flask, with the front-end doing some nice d3 graphs of the output in JavaScript. Works great, although in the end I thought Flask maybe would have been a better choice for the service, and Django for the client! Not sure. Both running in Docker on separate machines, one a dedicated host, the other on Heroku. Frankly the whole thing was a pretty pleasant experience and only took me a week so I felt gratified that I made the attempt and now have something to point to when people ask if I can program in Python. (I won't post the link unfortunately as there is no way my server can handle the HN load; it's just for my own personal demonstrations while I'm working on getting hired, anyway. In the future I might move the model execution to tensorflow.js and then the whole thing could be an almost static site running on Heroku with some client-side processing handling the heavy stuff, but no time for that now.)

https://cronitor.io is built with Django.

It was a side project from March 2014 to March 2020, but as of last month it’s now my full-time job!

Cocktail recipe and execution tracking for home enthusiasts. I started 1.5 years ago when my in-laws were visiting, the local version with good modeling and Admin input took 2 weeks.

The public, user facing data input, and production deployment, is taking the other 18 months :)

You know the saying, it is 90% done, now we only have to do the other half.

But I recently restarted. As of yesterday the app actually runs on AWS Beanstalk, although with its attached RDS. I have a coworker now that’s really into cocktails so I feel like I am building the site for him.

https://mapsofmind.com

Django - channels - celery

Another project to be launched soon that uses a similar stack. Just waiting on stripe activation.

started a cheat sheet while learning Python and made a site in Django for it. 1 and a half year later and after landing my first real job, I'm still maintaining it https://www.pythoncheatsheet.org/ - https://github.com/wilfredinni/python-cheatsheet

Started as a simple python script to scratch my own itch to track USCIS Visa Bulletins and my Green Card progress. Due to demand by friends and co-workers who had the same need, I used it as a learning opportunity and created a website powered by Django and Beautiful Soup: https://www.seekingvisa.com/

I've been working on my "Puzzlehunt Server" project for roughly 5 years now, and it is finally starting to see more traction than ever.

Link: https://www.puzzlehunt.club

Code: https://github.com/dlareau/puzzlehunt_server

The project currently serves as the main site for PuzzlehuntCMU, a group from Carnegie Mellon that writes and runs their own puzzlehunts, but the point of the project in general now-a-days is for any group that wants to run a puzzlehunt to be able to stand up a copy of the server and just go.

We recently just hosted a 24 hour, 1400 person, 400 team (5x the max number of users we've ever seen before) event a few weeks ago and thankfully everything held up fine.

I built https://www.spacereference.org, which compiles information on asteroids and comets from multiple data sources.

The Django project is open source here (https://github.com/judymou/spacedb) but most of my ongoing work is on the visualization rather than the Django side here (https://github.com/typpo/spacekit/).

Currently developing an inventory management system with Django, looking into smooth integration for both physical & digital stores. Integration with WooCommerce & Shopify for example. The goal is to be as open-source as possible. https://github.com/organization-supply/organization.supply

Internet archiving tool, which is currently stuck in limbo between releases because it's a big architectural overhaul and I haven't had energy/time to pick up all the mental context from where I left off https://github.com/pirate/archivebox and

slow and steady wins the race I guess...

Haven't touched it in a few months, but here's a fax machine (powered by Twilio) that runs on a Raspberry pi.

https://github.com/fastily/fax-machine

I challenged myself to make the operating costs as low-cost as possible. It costs $1/mo (for the Twilio number) and a couple cents per page.

Working on Delegate (https://www.delegatehq.com/), a process management app for founders and managers. Django / DRF backend with Vue.js in front running on Kubernetes--awesome stack.

https://enviro.work is built on Django! It's an environmentally-focused jobs board for those looking to align their career with the climate crisis

Not a side project but a full-time startup: https://narrationbox.com

Built with Django and Gatsby (the latter migration is still work-in-progress).

Very early stages, but we just went live!

Note taking, simplified. From idea to go-live in seconds. https://www.lowercase.app/

check out https://screenjar.com, easily request screen recordings from your users if they are stuck.

Also a full time startup, we're building a platform for controlling access to housing communities in Mexico.

Currently developing an API to create a mobile app with Flutter + Django!

Built with Django is a really interesting project. It looks good for me on Chrome, but I don't see any projects on Safari. I'm on Mojave 10.14.6, Safari 13.1.

https://www.dittobomb.com/ A platform for sending tweets to people in the mail.

I've started several over the years, but not actively working on any. Having a hard time with motivation right now.

- A Funko POP! collection tracker.

- A Disc Golf auction/news site.

- A qeepsake competitor.

Planyourmeals.com. about 2.5 years and counting when I thought it would take 3 months. Oh well still learning every day

I am building an django webapp helping to organize the learning of a musical instrument.

I build Review Board (https://www.reviewboard.org/, https://github.com/reviewboard/reviewboard), an open source code review tool built on top of Django. It used to be a side project to fill what was at that time a gap in code review offerings (not even GitHub was around at this time), but these days it's a full-time job.

Like @encoderer and Cronitor.io, we also stuck with Django 1.6 for several years! YAY! Turns out the jump from 1.6 to 1.7 was a painful experience, but we're finally on the modern.... 1.11. Yeah, we're not getting rid of our Python 2.7 customers for some time (still trying to get some off of Python 2.6). Enterprise software development is a different sort of beast.

Our https://rbcommons.com service is Review Board as a SaaS, and uses Stripe. Curious to hear what you're doing with Stripe integration on your end! We've been making heavy use of it ourselves.

We've also done some crazy, fairly-complex, maybe-niche stuff in Django, and built these out into some libraries you might find interesting to browse through:

1) Djblets (https://github.com/djblets/djblets) — A big ol' utility library for Django that provides:

* Foundations for loadable extensions (just like browser extensions) for Django projects

* Support for defining flexible integrations for third-party services (Slack, etc.)

* Avatar support (gravatars, file uploads, URL-based avatars, and custom backends)

* Datagrids (with user column customization)

* A foundation for REST APIs

* Dynamic site settings

* Stuff to make privacy/PII/consent a first-class citizen in codebases

* And just a ton of other things that we found useful in Review Board and wanted to make more widely-available.

2) Django Evolution (https://github.com/beanbaginc/django-evolution) — A precursor to Django's migrations support (and the reason we were on Django 1.6 for so long — the in-development version cooperates with migrations now). We inherited and maintain this project. It provides an alternate way to specify database schema changes, and has the benefit of just being far faster to apply migrations, through a built-in optimizer. This significantly reduces upgrade times for large installs (super important for many of our Review Board customers).

All open source, and might be interesting to look at, who knows. We've built a lot up over the years (we started by writing code against Django pre-1.0 SVN checkouts), and I still recommend it.

https://demo.localhub.social/

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