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Ask HN: What's your Django side project?

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Re: Ask HN: What's your Django side project?

#21

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!

Looks great, I think I've read about this before! Just FYI, the CSS for your homepage appears to be intermittently 404'ing. Could be a failed release and your static manifest being out of date on one or more of your running backend processes – we've had this before with Django.

Ugh, thanks! Fixing now.

Re: Ask HN: What's your Django side project?

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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.)

Re: Ask HN: What's your Django side project?

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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 o…

Can you share the link?

Re: Ask HN: What's your Django side project?

#28

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.)

That looks cool. I have been thinking about restarting my hobby of "electrical engineering". When I start learning this will certainly be my go-to tool.

Re: Ask HN: What's your Django side project?

#29

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

I have recommended this to many people looking for such roles. Thank you for building this!
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