Yeah I've played around with this approach in the past while prototyping service boilerplates, I think it's viable. I never got it polished enough to publish as

Yeah I've played around with this approach in the past while prototyping service boilerplates, I think it's viable. I never got it polished enough to publish as a startproject --template and ultimately went with Flask for microservices, so I didn't finish the prototype. I found this article useful while I was experimenting: https://simpleisbetterthancomplex.com/article/2017/08/07/a-minimal-django-application.html https://simpleisbetterthancomplex.com/article/2017/08/07/a-m... There are a few different places where little things break and then you need to use an obscure settings.py variable to fix them, which makes me a little nervous since it will cause a little cognitive friction for Django-fluent developers joining your project. But I do think it's worth experimenting with.