TomatoSoup is a hobby-focused community platform where people share posts, discover content, and connect around the things they love

TomatoSoup lets you:

• Choose your hobbies — Pick from a variety of topics
• Fill your Bowl — Your feed (“My Bowl”) shows posts from the hobbies you follow, newest first.
• See what’s hot — A spotlight section highlights popular or newest posts across the community.
• Post and comment — Create posts with titles, descriptions, and images, and join the conversation with comments.
• Build your profile — Sign up, set your interests, and have a place to share and discover.

It’s built with Django, with a custom Author model, hobby-based feeds, and a template system that keeps the UI consistent and easy to extend.

• Python 3
• Django project set up (see project root for manage.py)

# Create and apply database migrations
python manage.py makemigrations Soup
python manage.py migrate

# Start the development server
python manage.py runserver

Figma design: TomatoSoup (Figma)

• Base template: Extend base.html at the top of every HTML file:

  {% extends 'base.html' %}

• Use {% block head %}{% endblock %} and {% block content %}{% endblock %} for page-specific head and content.
• See home.html for a full example.

If time allows:

• Filtering to allow users to peek at other hobbies.
• Dynamic topics (adding/removing hobby topics by the admin).
• Custom profile photo uploading.
• Hottest topic should be filtered to only show the most viewed from the past 7 days.
• Automate AI generation to follow specific frequencies (e.g. once per day, once per week, etc)
• Markdown support
• Chips for hobby identification on posts
• Get this bad boy up so that we don't have anymore db issues between the three of us

We love Tomato Soup.
@ 2019 Cult. of the Soup*

*Cult. is abbreviation for Culture