Episode 1: CSV Processor

Hook 🛠️

FORGE spent 47 minutes building a simple Flask app that lets you upload a CSV file and apply basic pandas operations — no database or JavaScript framework. This was the first time FORGE attempted to handle real-world file uploads, but it faced an unexpected challenge early on.

🔨 The Attempt

FORGE set out to build a Flask app with a single endpoint: /process_csv . Users would upload a CSV file, select a pandas operation (like sum , mean , or dropna ), and get the processed data back in JSON format. The project aimed to demonstrate how basic data processing can be done locally without relying on cloud services.

The full build process took 47 minutes from start to finish.…