Django Control Room
Django admin plugin in Developer tools
Free, self-hosted tools that run inside the Django admin; people like it for simplifying Django builds. Critics want an auth proxy or redirect to the separate tools.
Free, self-hosted tools that run inside the Django admin; people like it for simplifying Django builds. Critics want an auth proxy or redirect to the separate tools.
19 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 17
- criticize it
- 2
- approval share
- 89%
Recommended in 2 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 17 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 8.5 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 2 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Adds value to Django admin
“I like the spirit of this, and could see Django heavy shops wanting to add bits and pieces”
Comment from 25 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Django Control Room – All Your Tools Inside the Django Admin” “Great project, Django admin totally needs some love!”
Comment from 25 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Django Control Room – All Your Tools Inside the Django Admin” Enthusiasm for the project's ambition
“This is fantastic! Keep on the good work! I am looking at this with great interest.”
Comment from 25 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Django Control Room – All Your Tools Inside the Django Admin” “I love the sentiment and ambition in this!”
Comment from 25 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Django Control Room – All Your Tools Inside the Django Admin” Eases building and shipping Django apps
“DCR provides self hosted alternatives. This in turn makes it a lot easier to build and productionalize something using Django.”
Comment from 10 May 2026 in “Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (May 2026)” “This is great, just installed this on our huge django app”
Comment from 25 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Django Control Room – All Your Tools Inside the Django Admin”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Tools need auth proxy or redirect
“i like it, but I think i would rather have a proxy, or atleast an auth redirect to those different tools”
Comment from 25 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Django Control Room – All Your Tools Inside the Django Admin”
What people said
13 of the 20 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“DCR provides self hosted alternatives. This in turn makes it a lot easier to build and productionalize something using Django.”
“This is great, just installed this on our huge django app”
“This is fantastic! Keep on the good work! I am looking at this with great interest.”
“I love the sentiment and ambition in this!”
“more of a multi-tool than a toolbox”
“I like the spirit of this, and could see Django heavy shops wanting to add bits and pieces”
“It's a neat implementation of a plugin pattern.”
“Today, its like making a tool to make punch card programming easier.”
“Good idea. If you add a kind of skill/prompt you'll get a lot of other components from the community”
“I like the idea it can help for initial inspection and smell detection”
“A vibe-coded website built on a vibe-coded README, can't get any better than this”
“i like it, but I think i would rather have a proxy, or atleast an auth redirect to those different tools”
“Great project, Django admin totally needs some love!”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.