Ask HN: What's your Django side project?
For those who are developing with Django, what are you working on / building / learning?
Looking to add more cool projects on my site https://builtwithdjango.com
An open Ask HN community consultation from 2021 where @rasulkireev convened hundreds of developers and bootstrappers to share real experiences, hard numbers, and tactics.
Core Principles for Independent Builders:
Participants share raw revenue figures, churn rates, and stack decisions that corporate PR never publishes.
Recurring answers reveal that distribution, not coding skill, is almost universally the rate-limiting step in developer businesses.
Practical recommendations on bookkeeping, payment gateways (Stripe vs Paddle), and freelance-to-product transitions.
Community Debate Themes:
Hundreds of active indie hackers contributed case studies, pricing heuristics, and pitfalls to avoid when moonlighting on side projects.
CATEGORY Ask HN Roundtables →
HISTORICAL ERA Pandemic Bubble (2020–2022)
COMMUNITY SCORE ★ 5 points
TOTAL DISCUSSIONS 2 comments
I am developing firedating.me using Django. It is a community of FIRE (Financial Independence / Early Retirement) enthusiasts looking for friends and a partner. Unfortunately the FIRE community is very dispersed and one can feel very lonely. So I made this site to help people build meaningful connections.
I am actually a huge fan of Django. It boosts my productivity a lot. The only minor issue I experience is that the way POST forms and templates work biases how I make UI. I.e. all UIs tend to be very page oriented - 1 page = 1 form - and some logic is leaking into templates. As a result, my UIs feel too coupled with the backend and this makes them harder to support. I am considering writing a separate frontend treating the backend as a blackbox instead. Wondering whether anyone experienced something similar.