Piosenka z tekstem is a community website dedicated to a sub-genre of Polish ballads, centered around the works of Jacek Kaczmarki .
Up and running since 2011, the site serves a resource to a small community interested in this type of art, with crowd-sourced articles, trivia facts about the songs and announcement board for upcoming events.
Monthly visitors: ~8000 as of 2024.
The website is built in Python/Django and the source code is available on GitHub . I took some notes from setting up the project to run on GCP:
- Django: Hosting on App Engine Standard
- Django: Managing user-uploaded files on App Engine Standard
- Django: Sending emails with a third-party email service
- Django: How much it costs to host a small project on App Engine