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.<p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/DrkSephy/django-hackathon-starter" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/DrkSephy/django-hackathon-starter</a>
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:<p>- A version of caniuse.com, but for modern C++<p>- 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, ...)<p>- 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.<p>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.
I built a dating site with django.<p>It's no longer maintained, and most likely not functioning, but still running on Heroku. (tangerine.herokuapp.com)<p>Here is what it looked like : <a href="http://imgur.com/a/aOgf1" rel="nofollow">http://imgur.com/a/aOgf1</a>
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.
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.<p>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.
Not something I created from scratch, but I had the chance to work on a very large Django codebase at TVSquared.<p>We ended up taking out most of stock Django and only using the router and controller functions.
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.<p>DRF+AngularJs is the killer here.<p>[0] : <a href="https://www.rapidsms.org" rel="nofollow">https://www.rapidsms.org</a>
[1] : <a href="http://app.rapidpro.io" rel="nofollow">http://app.rapidpro.io</a>
We built a multi-lingual platform on top of Django (e.g. <a href="https://www.caremondo.com/en/orthopaedics/" rel="nofollow">https://www.caremondo.com/en/orthopaedics/</a> being the main app), which was recently acquired. Apart from form-handling facepalms, the rest has been quite a breeze.
A platform for publishing fiction:<p><a href="http://fictionhub.io" rel="nofollow">http://fictionhub.io</a><p>A website where you can discover educational videos:<p><a href="http://lumiverse.io" rel="nofollow">http://lumiverse.io</a>