Patrons Love
A SaaS platform that gives local businesses a customizable digital storefront, with menus, products, services, events, merch, and patron rewards, without needing a developer.
September 2026
- Python
- Django
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- Tailwind CSS
- Webpack
- Stripe
- AWS S3
- Render
Patrons Love gives local businesses their own digital storefront, whether they’re a restaurant, a shop, or a service. A business assembles its site from flexible page types (menu, products, services, gallery, events) with a visual page and layout editor, and customers find it through a public discovery feed, search, and side-by-side compare.
Started in 2023, live at patrons.love, and still under active development. The repository keeps the project’s original name, LocalEats.
Highlights
- Storefront builder: a page editor and a layout editor that let an owner publish and rearrange their public site without touching code
- Customer side: a discovery feed, search and compare, patron rewards, and gift cards
- Payments: Stripe for subscription billing, merch checkout with Printful fulfilment, and Stripe Connect direct charges to the business
- Operations: an admin ops hub, Slack alerts, scheduled jobs, and a Locust load-testing harness
- Public REST API for storefront data
Engineering
- A Django monolith organized by domain, with a large pytest suite and Jest tests for the frontend
- CI gates on both test suites, linting, a missing-migration check, Django’s deploy check, the production frontend build, and security scanners
- Deployed on Render with a password-gated staging environment; Redis for cache and rate limits, S3 for media