This gets asked frequently. Please consider searching before asking in the future. Here are the first few examples of the same post I found in a couple minutes. https://www.reddit.com/r/django/comments/5ac59y/django_projects_with_open_source_code_on/ https://www.reddit.com/r/django/comments/s77rnt/django_project_on_github_to_learn_from_django/ https://www.reddit.com/r/django/comments/adxo6u/whats_the_best_example_of_django_best_practices/ https://www.reddit.com/r/django/comments/lv31px/any_open_source_drf_projects/ https://www.reddit.com/r/django/comments/n842st/is_there_a_public_repo_that_shows_productionlevel/ https://www.reddit.com/r/django/comments/132sqk1/any_python_stars_to_follow_in_twitter_and_github/ https://www.reddit.com/r/django/comments/12z80vs/i_want_to_read_good_python_code_where_can_i_find/ https://www.reddit.com/r/django/comments/rrcj0m/any_enterprise_level_open_source_django_project/ https://www.reddit.com/r/django/comments/xf1agk/suggest_some_opensource_django_projects_to_get/ https://www.reddit.com/r/django/comments/10epg4m/open_source_django_projects_for_study/ https://www.reddit.com/r/django/comments/tkyql/good_open_source_django_projects_for_learning/ https://www.reddit.com/r/django/comments/3c22cv/good_places_to_start_reading_the_django_source/ https://www.reddit.com/r/django/comments/boe2bk/i_would_like_to_see_a_big_django_codebase/ https://www.reddit.com/r/django/comments/1c5u23/excellent_open_source_django_projects_to_learn/ https://www.reddit.com/r/django/comments/uip38y/can_you_list_some_opensource_modern_djangopowered/ https://www.reddit.com/r/django/comments/hco6an/best_django_drf_open_source_projects_to_read/ https://www.reddit.com/r/django/comments/rtl0ij/where_can_i_find_real_world_django_projects_to/ https://www.reddit.com/r/django/comments/mwb14d/need_a_medium_sized_open_source_django_project/ https://www.reddit.com/r/django/comments/12bibfi/djangorest_open_source_project_to_simulate_real/ https://www.reddit.com/r/django/comments/119zrwd/looking_for_enterprisegrade_examples/ https://www.reddit.com/r/django/comments/dfkxq3/quality_opensource_projects_to_learn_from/ https://www.reddit.com/r/django/comments/eq7yoh/djangodrf_open_source_projects_to_learn_from_as/ Etc, etc, etc More on reddit.com

I actually built a simple Instagram clone way back when - https://github.com/mentix02/instagram if any of you guys wanna check it out. More on reddit.com

Build something that helps organize your life. You said you’re in high-school? Some ideas:

• upload images or text of your notes, by class and date

• create a site to track what colleges you want to apply to, thoughts about them, rankings (yours and others’), pictures, etc

• make a recipe site. It’s a basic idea but for good reason

• inventory your room/garage/kitchen

• create an address book

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I'll go the opposite direction of u/ILoveBigBlue, and suggest that flask is probably a better approach.

Django teaches you a lot more Django, but not necessarily more python. Sure, Django will force you to use a large amount of object oriented design, but that's a little old-hat. Plus, Django's interface to SQL is basically for people who don't know sql (it's not very efficient).

Flask is a better place to start, it's minimal and sufficient for your use cases. If you want "to learn and scale", then Django is actually not your best bet - it's not asynchronous! This means that in order to scale a Django app, you'll need to load balance across multiple instances and perhaps multiple servers - you'll be learning IT, not Python. And for anyone suggesting that tornado doesn't scale - take a look at dask! dask uses Tornado to asynchronously manage calculations running on massive clusters (the epitome of scale).

TL;DR - Django is a world of it's own with a high learning curve that's getting older and less relevant. Flask is a gateway to Tornado, which is more current (in design) and being actively used by massive, growing projects (like PyData)

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