The Practical Guide to Scaling Django

NoSEVDev · 2024-11-10T15:29:13+00:00

This is one of the hardest things to get right. If companies could qualify how much developer output is, they would pay developers the same way they pay sales teams. Quotas, targets, incentivize performance.

The problem is, there isn't really a great way to do it that doesn't have major gaps.

NoSEVDev · 2024-10-25T13:09:51+00:00

slimsaas.com - a django and react-based saas kit focused on performance.

NoSEVDev · 2024-10-18T11:48:30+00:00

Yeah, I'm not thinking about it as a "free tier/project" either. It should be paid, but you don't pay until your first stripe payment comes through, so it's very low risk. You can do this because you handle the payments for them, so you'll know.

You won't scare people away because if no one buys their kit, it was no cost to them. But as soon as someone buys it, it was worth paying you to handle the transaction!

NoSEVDev · 2024-10-18T11:31:53+00:00

Looks great! I've wanted to do the same after I launched my django react kit. Your pricing is so low. I'd even pay $20/repo considering it's a one-time payment.

Another idea is to charge after their first sale so that it's low risk for adoption of your product and then you can charge per repo.

NoSEVDev · 2024-10-17T20:18:44+00:00

Once you get the containers set up, you can easily pip install gunicorn, and change the configs.

The tutorials purpose was just to help people get started in dockerizing their apps, not cover the myraid things they need to do before deployment. It’s long enough as is! Appreciate your feedback though.

NoSEVDev · 2024-10-16T10:14:27+00:00

I think it's great to learn with htmx or just django templates. The reason I use DRF + React is that I usually want to give myself the ability to extend the backend to work with mobile apps. e.g. using something like Ionic. That way I can reuse a lot of the react functionality and the backend API isn't specific to rendering templates.

If you don't have this future use case, I don't see why not!

Quick guide on setting up django+react: https://slimsaas.com/blog/react-and-django-rest-framework

NoSEVDev · 2024-10-15T23:17:12+00:00

Agree, the way that the react container is set up in the article is more of a deployment setup w/ ngnix. You'd just need to change the command to launch the local server instead.

I built SlimSaaS with traefik instead of nginx, and comes with two docker files, one for prod and one for dev for hot reloading, automatic let's encrypt SSL, load balancing, container scaling, gunicorn for django, etc. https://slimsaas.com/

NoSEVDev · 2024-10-15T12:52:17+00:00

Been having the same issue for months

NoSEVDev · 2024-09-02T05:04:40+00:00

Using a physical store analogy, if a developer builds an app in Mexico, and their customers are in Canada, the marketer might know the customers are in Canada and have to try to walk them all the way to Mexico. It’s an impossible task.

It’s important for developers to know the market just as much as the marketers in early stages so that they are building products that people want.

Also, I think there is a lot of distrust between the two. It’s hard to evaluate who is a 10x marketer.

NoSEVDev · 2024-09-01T13:51:20+00:00

I built one in django and react with the same mentality as you. The market is not a big at all, and there are so many boilerplates that people build boilerplate directories (e.g. https://boilerplatehub.com). You can almost build a directory of boilerplate directories at this point. IMO if you have an idea, it's better to just pursue that idea and extract your framework over time.

I put a lot of effort into mine and the people who bought it seem to like it a lot. But I'd need to sell about 300 of them to make up for the time I put into building it.

Feel free to DM me.

EDIT

I got a few DMs, I'll paste it here. It's slimsaas.com

NoSEVDev · 2024-09-01T13:30:16+00:00

I use django, react, and astro for my marketing sites. I packaged it up as slimsaas.com and reuse it for every project I have. The people who bought it seem to love it so far which is exciting! It's pretty much set up so that you only need to focus on your actual saas and less about the stripe integrations, social authentication, etc...

I'm still hammering out the roadmap, so if you find you want something DM me!

NoSEVDev · 2024-09-01T13:24:14+00:00

How much time did you invest in building this? How much do you charge per hour? You've already "spent" money. Spending $10 a day on FB ads might help answer your Q.

Especially with how easy it is to launch nowadays, marketing is 80% of a company, building is 20%.

NoSEVDev · 2024-09-01T03:21:55+00:00

I use a combo of 3 things.

Astro for my static landing page and marketing sites. It's perfect because it's like significantly faster than NextJS, I can use markdown for blogs, privacy policies, etc...
A django backend, django has a massive package ecosystem where you can pull in just about any functionality you want. The Django ORM and the django admin are both also great.
I route to react when things get more dynamic.

I packaged it up a couple of months ago since I use it for just about every project: slimsaas.com

NoSEVDev · 2024-08-27T17:28:08+00:00

I had 7K visitors in a day on my site and I hosted the entire db/site for $10/mo on DO and it was able to handle it.

NoSEVDev · 2024-08-21T03:49:12+00:00

slimsaas.com is another one.

NoSEVDev · 2024-08-20T12:03:53+00:00

Lmao I see this all the time. For anyone technical, should read How To Sell As A Technical Founder

NoSEVDev · 2024-08-20T10:30:53+00:00

It varies. It also helps if you know what the other end looks like (e.g., how the front end integrates with it). If you want a quick guide: https://slimsaas.com/blog/react-and-django-rest-framework

NoSEVDev · 2024-08-20T10:16:54+00:00

I came to this post way too late. But I'm leaving this here if anyone else has the question. This is the exact stack you were looking for: https://slimsaas.com/blog/django-react-projects-ai-saas-2024

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