I recently built a full volunteer-opportunity board on top of a Django starter template — complete with role-based accounts, image uploads, a Progressive Web App layer, and a real production deployment. This post walks through what I built, the decisions behind it, and — more usefully — the deployment problems I actually hit and how I solved them, since that's the part tutorials usually skip.
Live app: https://volunteer-board-nccd.onrender.com
Source code: https://github.com/13getid/django-starter
Demo accounts if you want to poke around without signing up:
Organization: demo.org@example.com / DemoPass123!
