We're not YC, but Django at Timetric.
Ask YC Startups: Do you use Django, Rails, PHP or Other?
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Re: Ask YC Startups: Do you use Django, Rails, PHP or Other?
#32Django, http://schoolrack.com We (the developers) are actually beginning to feel like it's one of the biggest Django sites on the interweb right now. Definitely not trying to toot my own horn here, but we're gaining users like mad and traffic is insane. Disclaimer: I figure the OP's question is more directed at HN members rather than YC startups, but for the record we're not a YC startup
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/886221/does-django-scale
Look at the first answer. It seems like there are bigger django websites out there.
Re: Ask YC Startups: Do you use Django, Rails, PHP or Other?
#33Startup is Global Hostname: http://www.globalhostname.com/
DNS server is implemented in Twisted (but is not derived from twisted.names) and web site is Django+nginx. Database is Postgres.
Re: Ask YC Startups: Do you use Django, Rails, PHP or Other?
#34Django at Fluther.
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#35ASP.NET MVC, sql server 08
Re: Ask YC Startups: Do you use Django, Rails, PHP or Other?
#36Pylons [ http://pylonshq.com/ ] -- a lightweight (Python) web framework emphasizing flexibility and rapid development.
Re: Ask YC Startups: Do you use Django, Rails, PHP or Other?
#37Django, http://schoolrack.com We (the developers) are actually beginning to feel like it's one of the biggest Django sites on the interweb right now. Definitely not trying to toot my own horn here, but we're gaining users like mad and traffic is insane. Disclaimer: I figure the OP's question is more directed at HN members rather than YC startups, but for the record we're not a YC startup
Sorry to call you out, but your directly quantified Quantcast results show you at less than 1k uniques per day. There are a LOT of Django sites out there with considerably more traffic and it misrepresents the size of the Django community to suggest that, "one of the biggest Django sites" is only serving a few hundred hits a day.
We get a lot less traffic during the summer months (school isn't in session) and towards the end of the year for the holidays... but we do get quite more traffic than our quantcast page suggests.
It does look like I was totally full of my own shit though, we're clearly not that big when it comes to the other Django sites out there.
Re: Ask YC Startups: Do you use Django, Rails, PHP or Other?
#38Django, http://schoolrack.com We (the developers) are actually beginning to feel like it's one of the biggest Django sites on the interweb right now. Definitely not trying to toot my own horn here, but we're gaining users like mad and traffic is insane. Disclaimer: I figure the OP's question is more directed at HN members rather than YC startups, but for the record we're not a YC startup
just a heads up: on the about page this sentence -> Our mission from the onset has been to seamlessly connecting teachers, students, and parents through the Internet. should be "to seamlessly connect..." ?
Thanks for the heads up, just updated the servers.
Re: Ask YC Startups: Do you use Django, Rails, PHP or Other?
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sorry to call you out, but your directly quantified Quantcast results show you at less than 1k uniques per day. There are a LOT of Django sites out there with considerably more traffic and it misrepresents the size of the Django community to suggest that, "one of the biggest Django sites" is only serving a few hundred hits a day.
We get a lot less traffic during the summer months (school isn't in session) and towards the end of the year for the holidays... but we do get quite more traffic than our quantcast page suggests. It does look like I was totally full of my own shit though, we're clearly not that big when it comes to the other Django sites out there.
It looks like an average of 50,000 monthly uniques when school is in session. Do you mind sharing your actual numbers?
And can you hazard a guess why Quantcast is so inaccurate? It seems curious, considering you have their javascript tracking code on every page of your site. If their tracker is so broken, why use them and not Google Analytics?
Re: Ask YC Startups: Do you use Django, Rails, PHP or Other?
#40Django, http://schoolrack.com We (the developers) are actually beginning to feel like it's one of the biggest Django sites on the interweb right now. Definitely not trying to toot my own horn here, but we're gaining users like mad and traffic is insane. Disclaimer: I figure the OP's question is more directed at HN members rather than YC startups, but for the record we're not a YC startup
Sorry to call you out, but your directly quantified Quantcast results show you at less than 1k uniques per day. There are a LOT of Django sites out there with considerably more traffic and it misrepresents the size of the Django community to suggest that, "one of the biggest Django sites" is only serving a few hundred hits a day.
Comparing Quantcast's estimates to the actual stats for a few sites I run (and have access to full logs/anayltics for) shows that Quantcast is severely (read: at least one order of magnitude in a couple cases) lowballing.