https://fcis-finalcountdown.herokuapp.com/
I like hackathons a lot, but I haven't had the chance to join one yet. So I did what any introvert would do in my situation and hosted one. It was a big party for me, myself, and I. It was fun though, about 3 days of work to deliver an MVP, a good breather from a project I've been working on for the past couple of months.
- A newsletter with a few tweaks:
It sends custom periodic messages to its subscribers. And stops sending after a due date.
Nothing about it is static. There's a Django Model for everything so it can be easily tweaked.
Live demo:
I haven't used anything crazy, just the good ol' Django with a couple o' views, Postgres as a production database, Celery & Redis for sending emails, and Heroku for deployment.
Here's a diagram that makes things sound complicated and smart:
I'm poor, so, Heroku free-tier.
This is by far the most interesting thing in this project.
Heroku doesn't let you run more than 1 worker if no money is involved. So I used Honcho ("a Python port of Foreman, a tool for managing Procfile-based applications.") as the sole worker, and used it to fork all the processes I need: Gunicorn, Celery, and Celery beat.
- Note: Heroku still puts a memory limit!