Insighter Digital
Battle-tested Python web apps and APIs

Django

Django remains the workhorse for content-heavy products, admin tooling, and APIs that need to be boring in the best way. We've shipped Django apps that have run for years without a rewrite.

Why us

Why teams pick us for Django

The reasons clients usually keep us once the first scope ships.

  • Senior people only

    No bait-and-switch from your lead engineer in the pitch to a junior on day one. The people you scope with are the people who build.

  • Honest scoping

    We tell you what is in scope, what is not, and where the risks are — in writing, before you sign anything. Surprises kill projects.

  • Weekly demos, not big reveals

    You see real, running software every week. If a direction is wrong, you find out in week three, not week thirteen.

What's included

A Django engagement, end to end

The work below is typical — we scope to the outcome, not a checklist.

  • Greenfield Django projects with DRF or Ninja APIs
  • Migrations for legacy Django 2.x/3.x → 5.x
  • Celery + Redis task queues
  • Django Admin customization for ops teams
  • PostgreSQL schema design and tuning
How we work

How a Django engagement runs

Three phases that bracket the work.

  1. 01

    Discover

    A working session to map the outcome, constraints, and the smallest thing worth shipping first. You walk out with a written scope, not a sales deck.

  2. 03

    Build

    Senior engineers in weekly sprints with live demos. You see progress every week — no surprise reveals at the end.

  3. 04

    Launch

    Production deploy, infra hand-off, runbooks, and team training. We stay on-call through the first traffic spike.

Related work

Engineering in practice

Projects in this pillar — the same skills that power a typical Django engagement.

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    Daily active across multiple agency tenants

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    • Data & Platform
    • Commerce
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    Shopify replatform with headless checkout

    Migrated a legacy WooCommerce store to headless Shopify with a custom Next.js storefront and bespoke subscription logic.

    LCP 1.1s → 0.4s, +18% mobile conversion

    • Commerce
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FAQ

Questions about Django work

If you do not see your question, just ask. We will tell you straight whether we are the right fit.

Have a project? Let's scope it.

A 30-minute call, no slides. Tell us the outcome you need and we'll tell you what it takes to ship — honestly.