Having initially struggled with web development and Django, the author embarked on a journey to create a Django-based application to track visits to Major League Baseball stadiums, inspired by a love for baseball and the Dodgers. This project uses the MLB API to allow users to log games they've attended and track the stadiums they have visited, additionally providing game details like scores and historic stadiums. The app, which consists of four components—Users, Content, API, and Stadium Tracker—benefits from Django Rest Framework (DRF) for API development and is influenced by experts like Will S. Vincent for user management. Despite some outstanding tasks such as improving test coverage and enabling social network-based user accounts, the project helped the author overcome tutorial paralysis, learn effective use of Git, contribute to Django documentation, and become more integrated into the Django community. The site is live on Heroku, showcasing the author’s growth and newfound confidence in web programming.