Merely gathering up a list of apps that people are tired of rolling their own constantly. I would love to hear what you guys would want built out once and for all.

banal-apps.txt

- banal-signup (user management)
- banal-payments (cash money)
- banal-betalist (beta list hype tools)

I'd add these to the list:

• drip email campaigns based on actions in an app (i.e. django signals or something)
• private beta with signup codes process

These come to mind:

• Dashboard app to hook settings into.
• Profile app
• Email app to send Markdown enabled emails with editable admin templates.
• OpenGraph library (mixins and template tag)

This is a big part of what Pinax provides or is designed to provide an ecosystem for. User management, sign up codes, invitations and many other things are already available and in production use on tens or hundreds of sites. If there is other app functionality missing, I'd love to collaborate. No need to duplicate effort.

For example, https://github.com/pinax/django-user-accounts/ covers user management including private beta and sign up codes.

It can be combined with https://github.com/eldarion/kaleo for invitation support and https://github.com/pinax/django-waitinglist for waiting lists.

And lots more similar apps available. Plus for project scaffolding, there are starter projects which come with multiple apps already integrated with bootstrap-based templates for extremely rapid development of the foundations for sites.

On the payments side, there's https://github.com/pinax/django-stripe-payments