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flatplanet/Django-CRM

★ 220 · Python · updated Aug 2023

A minimal Django CRM built as a tutorial project — single app, basic CRUD for contact records, Bootstrap frontend. It's what you'd build following a YouTube walkthrough, not what you'd ship to manage real customers.

- Dead simple to understand: one model, one app, straightforward views. Good starting point if you've never wired Django auth to a data model before.

- Uses Django's built-in authentication rather than rolling something custom, which is the right call for a project at this level.

- Migrations are included and the setup path (mydb.py for MySQL connection) is at least explicit about its database dependency.

- Committed __pycache__ and .pyc files are in the tree — the .gitignore is missing or ignored. That alone signals this isn't production-ready code.

- Last pushed August 2023, single migration, no open issues being addressed. It's a tutorial artifact, not a maintained project.

- No tests worth mentioning — website/tests.py exists but is almost certainly the default empty file Django generates.

- The 'CRM' is just a contacts table with first name, last name, email, phone, city, state. There's no pipeline, no deal tracking, no relationships between records. The name overpromises significantly.

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