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From toy CRUD to real product: building an AI-assisted task management backend in Python

Goals:

  1. Learn by doing ( or building) a production-ready service for Tasks with ML components.
  2. Organize my own lists of tasks from different services I used in my life.
  3. Practice product engineering and development techniques ( integrations, data conflicts, background tasks, AI recommendations, security, audit and testing).

Not goals:

  1. Vibe code a whole system from scratch (AI assistance is important and helpful but understanding all the steps of creating is crutial).

Why yet another TO-DO app?

First, it's simple and understandeble. Second, there a lot of tutorials on the Web how to build a To-Do app from scratch but not many even have a real database for data storing (many of them are using lists or dictionaries for storage during runtime). Even less are describing Testing or Deployment problems.