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In this episode of Running in Production, Ben Dominguez goes over building avideo course platform to learn Python. It’s written in Flask and the MVP wasfinished in 3 weeks. He gets about 4,000 visitors a month. It’s hosted Heroku’shobby tier.Ben is the solo developer on the project. He talks about using techs you’refamiliar with, keeping deployments simple with Heroku, using PaymentIntentswith Stripe and much more.Topics Include 50:16 – Check out the platform or find FFDataPros on Twitter and GitHubLinks📄 References https://learnpythonthehardway.org/ https://jupyter.org/⚙️ Tech Stack flask → python → react → gulp → heroku → mailchimp → postgres → sqlite → webpack → 🛠 Libraries Used https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow https://github.com/maxcountryman/flask-login https://www.sqlalchemy.org/ https://gunicorn.org/Support the ShowThis episode does not have a sponsor and this podcast is a labor of love. If you want to support the show, the best way to do it is to purchase one of my courses or suggest one to a friend. Dive into Docker is a video course that takes you from not knowing what Docker isto being able to confidently use Docker and Docker Compose for your own apps.Long gone are the days of "but it works on my machine!". A bunch of followalong labs are included. Build a SAAS App with Flask is a video course where we build a realworld SAAS app that accepts payments, has a custom admin, includes high testcoverage and goes over how to implement and apply 50+ common web app features.There's over 20+ hours of video.