About This Project

After CabHub, which ran on Node.js, I wanted to clone another two-sided marketplace — this time entirely with Django. Django Templates turned out to be the shortcut: with no separate front-end framework to maintain, the whole project took just one month, and Tailwind CSS meant I never had to agonize over class names.

Long Term Gains

I weighed React against Django Templates for the front-end, and for a content-focused site with little interactivity, templates won honestly. I also wrote custom manage.py commands to seed fake data instead of typing it into Django Admin by hand — a small trick that changed how I think about my own time. This project deepened my Django considerably, and a few months later it grew into a mobile app with a REST API and React Native.