HorseRecords Lets You Record Everything about Your Horses
with Nick Janetakis and Andy Ide
Running in Production · Nick Janetakis
August 2, 20211h 15m
Show Notes
In this episode of Running in Production, Andy Ide goes over building a SAAS app for horses with Django and Python. It’s hosted on a single Linode server and has been running in production since May 2021.
Andy talks about learning Django while building his app, using Django Unicorn, creating a Django monolith that’s broken up with Django apps, outsourcing setting up a server, the importance of having a good testing team and more.
Andy was kind enough to give listeners of this podcast 20% off for life if you
use promo code RUNNING20 when signing up, that
includes signing up for free since it carries over to a paid plan.
Topics Include
- 6:11 – About 60ish users signed up about a month after launching
- 8:34 – The process of learning Django while building this app
- 11:29 – Using the Django admin and a bunch of other useful packages
- 14:34 – Django Unicorn is being used for interactive bits w/o having to write a lot of JS
- 18:34 – It’s a Django monolithic with a bunch of Django apps
- 22:27 – How Django Rest Framework is being used for the reporting part of the app
- 28:46 – The app is mostly Django rendered templates with sprinkles of JS and Unicorn
- 34:00 – Stripe is handling payments, their API and docs are great
- 41:02 – (1) $10 / month Linode server hosts everything with 1 CPU core and 2GB of memory
- 45:25 – Picking the most recent version of Ubuntu and keeping deploys simple
- 52:05 – Using Cloudflare for DNS and using their paid plan
- 56:54 – Running tests locally before deploying it
- 59:12 – Handling backups with Django DB Backup and Linode’s backup service
- 1:02:12 – Using Sentry for exception reporting, viewing logs and Uptime Robot
- 1:08:50 – Best tips? Install Sentry and have a good testing team
- 1:13:37 – Check out HorseRecords on Facebook and Andy’s Django Blog
Links
📄 References
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stud_farm
- https://djangochat.com/
- https://djangoandy.com/2021/05/14/integrating-django-rest-framework-and-retool/
- https://djangoandy.com/2021/05/02/what-i-learned-in-the-first-2-days-of-launching-my-saas-startup/