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Developer Builds AI-Powered Visa Tracker with Django and Aurora PostgreSQL
A developer created VisaTrack, an AI-powered document tracker that generates visa checklists using Google Gemini. The app uses Django, React, and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, requiring a custom IAM authentication backend. It was built for a hackathon and handles unpredictable traffic with serverless scaling.
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The custom IAM auth workaround highlights real-world friction between AWS defaults and Django's ORM, making this more of a cloud-infrastructure lesson than a novel product.
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