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Ask HN: How to plan a webapp before building it?

3 pointsby zubairlkover 4 years ago
Hi everyone,<p>I was wondering what level of planning do people do here before diving into making a webapp?<p>e.g. Let&#x27;s say a customer comes along and asks for a 2 sided marketplace for renting bikes.<p>What would be a gold standard level of spec&#x2F;planning before we start building things?<p>Should we make low fidelity wireframes?<p>Plan a site map? User types and privileges? User stories?<p>Background: We to build webapps for customers using bubble.io (nocode platform). It&#x27;s too easy to just dive in and figure things out as we go but I&#x27;ve found that we end up reworking quite a few things. I&#x27;d like to rework less and plan more.<p>I&#x27;d appreciate the wisdom of the HN crowd.<p>Ideal would be light overhead but accurate spec. Although not sure if that exists.

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viviansolideover 4 years ago
Hard to say.<p>But you get the idea, wireframes and user stories are a good starting point. Sitemaps are great too.<p>For tiny projects, I use Sketch to get a prototype. The client may easily stumble upon something unexpected.
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zubairlkover 4 years ago
Feels like this is going to be an empty thread...