#125 - Your Side Project Cheat Sheet - 6 steps to create cool sh*t

You want to build an amazing side project but you don’t know where to start.

❌ TODO app?
❌ Clone of that other app that you use?
❌ Tutorial project?

When I’m not sure what I want to build, I do this:

• Start with the data - what API can you use which may have some interesting information?
• What features can you construct around the API? For example, a real time stock API could be used to trigger an alert to a user when it dips below a certain threshold
• Figure out the minimal amount of features
• What is the user flow? What happens when a user goes to your app? What is the feature they interact with and how is the data surfaced?
• Pick a combination of new and familiar technologies
• Get stuck, read the docs and build your way out of the hole you’ve dug 😅
• Gain more practical knowledge than a 100 hour course could ever offer you

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