Rebuilding Instagram in 2026 (opens in new tab)

Building an Instagram Clone in 2026 with Django and django-pictures A story about a billion-dollar exit, a chance meeting at a business plan competition, and why serving the right image to the right device is still harder than it should be. Instagram Was a Django App Before Instagram was a Meta property worth hundreds of billions of dollars, it was a Python project running on Django. Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger launched it in October 2010 after pivoting away from a check-in app called Burb...