I found that. It goes trough the installing (where i assumed i have to install the packages manually with pip until i reached the end) but in which part does it mention how i can actually start the app? I am sure i could read the Django docs, but meh

I understand. You are right about how to start the app. When we have a little bit of skill with python/django it's easier.

I'll try to improve that point in the doc but it's not simple ;)

So, once you made a (python) virtualenv (which is recommand) and source it (by doing source bin/activate) and install the whole application, start it by :

python manage.py runserver

On a production environment we use "supervisor" which permits to start everything automatically.

And finally, to avoid all of that glitch, I'm looking at docker.

I know the hustle but from a different boat (which also seems easier) as Rails dev. The first thing it did right now is throwing some error at me, gonna look at it later when i am not at work anymore.

Also personally i prefer everything over docker. Its cool, but its so overkill for many things. I would love some setup.sh tailored for Debian systems the most.