[Day 13] Zero to MVP in 30 Days — Writing Some Code

Every article needs an image, doesn’t it?

I can finally tell you a bit more about how to project will be layed out.

In this series I’ll validate a new idea. Read about the concept here (Day 0) and the idea here (Day 1).

I’m very excited to code this thing. One reason for that might be that I’m already pretty invested in this thing, but haven’t done a lot of product work. I’ve probably spent only about 10% on coding. I’m rather unfamiliar with that kind of work routine.

I use this Electron-React-Boilerplate and ant.design. Integrating them took about 5 seconds. Creating a menu and making the views work also only took minutes. So what kind of “boilerplate” code is still missing?

Auth. I started with Auth0 at this point, but it has more of a learning curve than I expected. 10 minutes into it and I still have nothing. I guess I need just a little more patience. Payment. Skip this. Analytics. I’ll copy what I have from the landing page and add some events.

Graph.cool will be used for the backend. The only thing that could be tricky here is the offline support (I use Apollo Client). But that’s after the MVP.

What will take a little more effort to figure out is everything onboarding related. From UX to sending emails …

After I’m done with that, I can finally start with what makes Find Better Questions unique. I obviously already started with it, but the first big problem with doing the scraping will be errors. I don’t know why, but I get a lot of Internal Server Errors from Quora. I also can’t be sure that every page will always look like I assume it. This will however be easier to track when I get some usage data from real users. I’m so excited.

The plan for tomorrow

I won’t be able to spend a whole lot of time on this tomorrow :(Let’s see what I’ll write about …

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