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Shipped my first Django app, a manual spending tracker with debt management
Shipped my first web app. Django, Tailwind, vanilla JS, hosted on Railway,
payments via Paddle.
It's a manual spending tracker with debt management. No bank sync. You type
in every expense yourself. Debt balances drop visually as you log payments.
Heres what i learnt with this project
- Django models and queries made sense once I had a real project to build
- Paddle webhooks took some late nights but the payment pipeline works
- Railway was smooth, jush to GitHub and it rebuilds
- vanilla JS kept the quick-add form fast to log expenses
- Used AI to speed things up, but debugging it taught me more than tutorials
Anyone else build something that goes against the automation trend? How did it land?
u/ChallengeOk3355 — 4 days ago