Just finished my first-ever (hosted) Flask app

I just graduated college and I had some free time -- so i decided to delve deep into a project using Flask (i have a bit of Flask experience from an internship, but am by no means fluent).

I wanted the site to have data-intensive elements (like time-series graphs), as well as some user signups/db action. I decided to make an app to measure price sensitivity for store owners -- its hosted on [https://www.unitdemand.com](https://www.unitdemand.com).

I have it on Heroku with a Postgres DB. I used Blueprints extensively, and SQLAlchemy for querying. I had a lot of issues with Flask-Login and Gunicorn, but I eventually solved that by only having one worker.

I'd love to help out anyone else that's on a similar journey, hopefully I can relieve some headaches/give insights, as well as get some feedback from the community. Cheers 🙂

7 thoughts on “Just finished my first-ever (hosted) Flask app”

  1. First of all, congratulations on finishing this. It looks so much better than my flask app :).

    On the topic of my flask app, I was wondering if you could help me with my flask app. I am also using heroku but I cant seem to get my routes to work. Here is the reddit post: [https://www.reddit.com/r/flask/comments/gjpk74/i\_have\_succesfully\_deployed\_my\_flask\_app\_to/](https://www.reddit.com/r/flask/comments/gjpk74/i_have_succesfully_deployed_my_flask_app_to/)

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  2. Pretty slick, I had price tracking I wanted to do using this same setup. Great job and hope this takes off, unique and cool idea.

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  3. Great work! Looks really good.
    Do you have it on Github?
    I’m currently building with Flask and planning to use Foundation for my front-end framework.
    Is the Flask portion just for API or are you using their templating with Bootstrap styling?

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