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Before I write any code for a client, I ask five questions. They save more time than any tool.
Who is the one person this app is for?
"Everyone" is not an answer. The first version should work well for one type of user.
What's the one thing they must be able to do in the first minute?
Whatever that is, it gets built first. Everything else can wait.
How will you make money from it, or how will you know it worked?
This decides if we need payments, analytics or an admin panel from day one.
What happens to the data if someone gets in who shouldn't?
Login, permissions and data privacy are cheap to plan early and painful to add later.
What do you already have?
Designs, a brand, users, an old app, a spreadsheet. Starting from what exists is faster than starting from zero.
Most delays I've seen come from skipping these, not from hard code.
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