Beaunity is a forum-like platform where users can create, discover, and participate in challenges, discussions and events — both online and offline. The app brings together beauty enthusiasts, professionals, and brands to share their creativity and knowledge through interactive experiences. Whether you're building a skincare routine, exploring makeup trends, or hosting a beauty workshop, Beaunity helps you grow individually while connecting with a supportive community.
To empower individuals to embrace their unique selves through collaboration, creativity, and meaningful connections.
This project is built using a modern Django stack, designed for scalability, performance, and developer productivity. Below are the core components integrated into the application:
🔐 User Authentication & JWT Login
- Secure user registration, login, and logout functionality supporting both JWT-based stateless authentication and traditional login via username, email or Google Account for web users.
👥 Join & Follow System
- Users can create accounts, join the platform, connect and interact with others.
🛠️ Enhanced Admin Interface with Django Unfold
- The admin panel is customized using Django Unfold, providing a modern, user-friendly interface with improved layout, theming, and navigation—streamlining content moderation and system management for administrators.
🔗 Generic Foreign Keys
- Enable flexible and dynamic model relationships across multiple content types, allowing models to reference any other model seamlessly.
🔍 Discover by Category
- User can browse posts, challenges and events by interests—ranging from skincare and makeup to wellness and self-care.
📝 Post Creation with Predefined Categories
- Users can share tips, experiences, or insights by creating posts categorized under predefined topics—encouraging structured interaction and community knowledge sharing.
🧴 User-Generated Challenges
- Users can create challenges with images, meeting links, and categorize them with predefined tags for easy discovery.
🗓️ Host Online & Offline Events
- Organizer host workshops, tutorials, or in-person meetups which user can join.
⭐ Favorites System
- Users can mark challenges, events, and posts as favorites for quick access and personal organization..
💬 Engage Through Comments & Likes
- Users can interact with other users by giving feedback, encouragement, and inspiration.
👩💼 Role-Based Permissions
- Different access levels for admins, moderators, organizers and regular users, including public/private content management. Features include public/private content management, pending post and challenge review pages, dashboard statistics, and group membership switching.
📬 Approval Workflow
- Moderators review and approve submitted content such as challenges or posts before they become publicly visible.
🔔 Automated Reminders & Notifications
- Scheduled tasks (via Celery & Redis) automatically send email notifications and reminders to keep users engaged. Additionally, email notifications are sent instantly when post or challenge is approved or new account is created.
🌐 Integrated API Support
- Select parts of the project expose API endpoints via Django REST Framework, enabling integration with frontend components or external services where needed.
💻 Responsive UI with Mobile Navigation
- Responsive design ensures seamless user experience across desktop and mobile devices
🎨 Tailwind CSS Integration
- Utilizes Tailwind CSS for rapid UI development, utility-first styling, and consistent design—making customization and responsiveness easier to maintain..
📂 Soft Delete Functionality
- Instead of permanently deleting profiles users' status is set to 'not active'.
⚙️ Custom Error Templates (404/403)
- Friendly and branded error pages improve user experience on forbidden or missing resources.
🧼 Content Sanitization
- User-generated HTML content is sanitized using bleach to prevent malicious scripts and ensure safety.
🛡️ Sentry App Monitoring
- The project integrates Sentry for real-time error tracking and performance monitoring across the Django web application. This ensures early detection of issues in production and enables rapid debugging and resolution.
Beaunity leverages a modern Python and Django-based tech stack to deliver a robust, scalable, and feature-rich web application. Below is an overview of the main tools and libraries used
- Django (5.2.2) – A high-level Python web framework for rapid development and clean design.
- Django REST Framework (3.16.0) – For building RESTful APIs.
- Django Allauth (65.9.0) – Handles authentication, registration, social logins, and account management.
- SimpleJWT (djangorestframework-simplejwt) – JWT-based authentication for secure API access.
- Celery (5.5.3) – Distributed task queue for handling asynchronous background tasks.
- Django Celery Beat (2.8.1) – Periodic task scheduling for Celery.
- Redis (6.2.0) – Message broker and caching backend for Celery.
- PostgreSQL (psycopg2==2.9.10) – Relational database for structured data storage.
- psycopg2 – PostgreSQL adapter for Python
- Cloudinary (1.44.0) – Cloud-based image and video storage.
- Django Cloudinary Storage (0.3.0) – Cloudinary integration for Django.
- Django CKEditor (6.7.3) – Rich-text editor for content creation.
- Django Unfold (0.60.0) – Modern Django admin theme.
- Django Tailwind (4.0.1) – TailwindCSS integration for custom frontend styling.
- DRF Spectacular (0.28.0) – Generates OpenAPI 3-compliant API documentation.
- Python Decouple (3.8) – Securely manages environment variables and settings.
- Social Auth App Django (5.5.0) – Social authentication (Google).
- OAuthlib & Requests-OAuthlib – OAuth2 support for secure social logins.
- Black (25.1.0) – Code formatting for Python.
- Isort (6.0.1) – Organizes imports automatically.
- Bleach (6.2.0) – HTML sanitization for security.
- Sentry (sentry-sdk) – Real-time error tracking and performance monitoring integrated with Django and Celery to capture exceptions and improve application reliability.
- Pillow (11.2.1) – Image processing.
- Python Slugify (8.0.4) – Creates clean URL slugs.
You can test the site live at https://beaunity.onrender.com. Feel free to create a new account or use one of the pre-existing demo accounts:
| Group | Username | Password | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Superuser | vivi.enn | Skincare#96 | vivien@example.com |
| Moderator | alice_sim | Skincare#92 | alice_sim@example.com |
| Organizer | bilyanaa | Glow_Up!18 | b_mladenova@example.com |
| User | caro_lee99 | Tr3ndySkin* | degip92859@balincs.com |
| User | roxy_foxy | CmbSkin_L0ve | jomike2985@amirei.com |