Hi HN.
I live in South Africa and we unfortunately have this thing called Loadshedding that causes the power to go off every couple of hours a few times a day.
I made a little web app to that shows the current status of the power grid, pretty much to get the hang of React JS.
I was wondering what loadshedding was for a second, then I read your comment. Nice clean app, unfortunate that you had to make it. I'm not totally sure how loadshedding works but it seems like it would only affect a region of the country, would be nice to add a map that shows the affected areas (assuming that sort of data is exposed)
Definitely seems worth it in the long run... but just don't see myself forking out a couple hundred USD when I just wanna validate a little app I built.
I'm generally quite straight forward with my stack - Python/Django and Jinja templating. DB depends on the size of the project - not shy to to use sqlite for MVP sites, but bigger projects roll on Postgresql.
I am currently learning Vuejs as well to be able to write api based web apps.