[joeclark77]

I would use Flask, not Django. I recently had to help a beginner with some Django code and found it inelegant and unintuitive. Flask, by contrast, is simple and straightforward. The setup is four lines of code, and each URL is a Python function, so it can do anything Python can do.

For your "stack", I'd recommend Heroku for the backend, and PostgreSQL for the database because it's supported well by Heroku. The name of the game is that you shouldn't have to spend any time setting up servers, etc. Just test and deploy. There's a good Flask tutorial by Miguel Grinberg in book form and online which uses this stack.