July 18, 2023

Blaze.horse—Django Starter Kit Update!

It’s been a few weeks since we initially launched. So what’s been going on?

The big news: we’ve decided to make the starter kit 100% free for all personal, non-commercial use! Start a new website without one of those over-hyped static site generators! You deserve tried and true, old school dynamic content!

If you try it and end up loving it, please consider buying us a coffee on Ko-fi. 😄

(Updated license agreement is coming in the V2 release. See below)

If you’re part of an agency or someone who stands to make some money off your website, the $100 USD (per-site, one time!) license to jumpstart a new project is a fantastic investment!

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The numbers so far

• Zero licenses sold
  • Holding out hope that folks are busy kicking the tires before making that fateful first purchase!
• 26 stars on GitHub
  • I think a lot of these are probably folks who saw the ads in Django News.
• 178 commits to the main branch

What’s been updated on the project since we launched

• Set up GitHub actions for automatically testing projects built with Blaze.horse.
  • Using a GitHub to actually build and then test a project based on the code in the project, but not the project code itself? Hurts my head in the best kind of way.
  • This is for the purpose of building the starter kit itself.
• Set up test coverage reporting (from aforementioned GitHub action)
• Added some neat badges to the README.
• Renamed the repo from django-starter to blaze-starter.
  • Catchy, right?

What’s next?

Version 2!

• Updated license agreement granting free use for personal, non-commercial projects!
• Playwright
  • UI tests (including visual regression tests)!
  • As is the theme for this project, I got things working how I wanted to on Cassette Nest (which took about a week) and then implemented things here in one morning. 🎉
• Litestream
  • SQLite in production!
  • This is also something I recently applied to Cassette Nest (which had previously been using Postgres). Not only does this change save me $15/month (from the DigitalOcean “managed” database server), but it’s faster!

Until next time, keep it simple!

—Trey from Piepworks