django-advance-thumbnail

Real adoption, not a demo

• Downloaded ~3,300 times a month on PyPI — roughly 100 installs a day, every day.
• In production since July 2023 — nearly 3 years of continuous real-world use.
• Started at three companies I shipped backends for (RBS Tech, Byte Bridge, CosmosID) — plus thousands of third-party installs worldwide. External validation, not a self-claim.

What it does

• Drop in one field — it auto-generates a thumbnail every time an image is saved.
• Regenerates when the source changes, cleans up when it’s deleted. Pillow under the hood, configurable target size.
• Zero boilerplate, zero config to start.

Built once, runs for years

• I kept rewriting the same thumbnail code at every job, so I solved it once and shipped it to PyPI.
• 8 releases, matured through a major version to v2.0.0. Python ≥3.6, current Django.
• Zero open issues, three years in — it just runs.
• This is how I work: ship reusable production systems, then keep them running solo for years.