Web App Content Platform Personalization

TechScape

A scalable tech blog platform with personalized content discovery, rich publishing tools, and a reader experience engineered for engagement.

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Project Overview

TechScape is a full-featured tech blog platform built to deliver curated content across software, hardware, blockchain, tech culture, and career development, with a reading experience designed around engagement and personalization. Built with Django and PostgreSQL, it supports rich-text blog posts, category-based browsing, and a full account system with email verification.

The platform is built around content discovery, reader engagement, and monetization readiness. Readers can register, verify their account by email, and personalize their experience by liking, bookmarking, and sharing posts — with a homepage feed that adapts to each user's reading habits based on their most-liked categories. Writers compose posts through a rich CKEditor interface with image uploads, and readers can subscribe to a newsletter, and manage their profile, all backed by password reset and account recovery flows. An admin dashboard gives staff full control over posts, categories, and subscriber lists.

Use cases include: tech content publishing and discovery, personalized content recommendations, reader engagement tracking (likes, bookmarks, shares, views), newsletter subscriber management, and admin-driven content moderation.

Current status: Account registration and email verification, blog publishing with rich-text editing, category browsing, personalized recommendations, likes/bookmarks/shares, newsletter subscription, and the admin dashboard are all complete and live.

TechScape is best positioned as a practical foundation for a content-driven tech publication that wants reader engagement and personalization built in from day one.

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