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Django backends, React frontends, and a new campus product getting its MVP ready for launch.
π https://github.com/Ashenafi-Adola π https://leetcode.com/u/ashenafi_adola/
Ashenafi Adola builds web applications from scratch and documents the messy middle: backend bugs, API choices, UI fixes, and requests for honest feedback. The channel moves from Django projects to separate React frontends, with Ichat, ASTU Gebeya, and now Campus Hub appearing along the way.
Ashenafi builds from scratch with ideas and documentation, favors Django for backend work, and uses separate React frontends connected through APIs and DRF. The routine is highly practical: ship a project, debug the surprising serializer bug, test the UI on a phone, and ask readers what to improve next.
- The channel has a current posting streak of 23 weeks.
- It averages 4.4 posts per week.
- English makes up 89% of text posts.
- Three projects are marked as shipped.
The journey.
- Aug β Nov 2025
Django From Scratch
The channel opened with full-stack experiments, a calculator, an exam application, and an ASTU Estudent portal. Then came the Blog app and a note-taking app, with Ashenafi making the backend the main event and learning from documentation rather than video tutorials.
Sources#6#7#10#13 - Jan β Apr 2026
Their projects.
- ASTU Gebeya
An online marketplace for students.
Launched5 postsJun 2026 β Aug 2026Visit - Ichat
A real-time chat application with a separate React frontend and Django backend.
Earlier called chat application in JanβMar 2026.
Building4 postsJan 2026 β Apr 2026β - Campus Hub
A platform designed to ease the lives of campus students.
Building2 postsOct 2026β - Estudent portal
An Estudent portal for ASTU.
Also called astu_Estudent portal in Aug 2025.
Building2 postsAug 2025β - Blog app
A blog application with a Django backend.
Building2 postsOct 2025 β Nov 2025β - pythonwithashe
A Telegram channel named pythonwithashe.
Launched1 postsOct 2025β - Exam application
An exam application.
Idea1 postsAug 2025β - graphicswithashe
A Telegram channel named graphicswithashe.
Launched1 postsApr 2026β - note taking app
A note-taking application.
Building1 postsNov 2025β
Start here.
- 01
The chat app introduction explains what Ashenafi built personally and where AI helped.
I come up with new project (a chat application). You'd like itπ 100% of the backend is done by me from scratch and for the frontend only some of the styling is...
Jan 25, 2026207 views - 02
A clear look at the React-versus-Django frontend challenge.
this is the frontend of my chat application. i am challenging myself with react.js by making the frontend separate from the backend i mean i want to challenge m...
Mar 15, 2026184 views - 03
The latest project update, with an MVP nearly ready and a direct call for UI feedback.
Here is the progress of the campus hub app over the last three weeks π. The MVP is about to go live π. I need your comments about the UI and the features you...
Oct 17, 202655 views
In their own words.
no video tutorial just idea and documentation
100% of the backend is done by me from scratch
Fresh from the channel.
Ashenafi Adola on Buildr: https://buildr.mikaelen.site/enadola
The first cup of coffee of the year βοΈβ¨
I tested my app on my phone, and it needs some UI fixes. Please don't forget to comment; it means a lot to me.
I mean the UI not the cars
which one looks more professional let know the first or the second?
π₯I love thisπ