How to build an app in two years

Two years ago I did the first commit for my app. I couldn’t be imaging back then how much time it takes until it’s not ashamed to present to an audience.
This talk is about my own path from the idea to implementation. It can be useful for those who is planning to build some app or thinking about a start-up.

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1. How to build an app in two years From an idea to implementation
2. Roman Alekseev Software engineer and tech lead at trivago I like to make things simple and performant efficient. @jesprider
3. The Idea Your idea should solve some problem
5. We believe [TYPE OF USER] has a problem [DOING THING]. We can help them with [OUR SOLUTION]. We'll know we're right if [CHANGE IN METRIC].
6. We believe young people who want to travel across multiple cities can’t plan their trip in a single application. We can help them with an application, which allows them to plan their trip remotely real time at a single place. We'll know we're right if investors will start to fight for investing in the app the app will have >100 unique visitors a day.
7. Direct competitors
8. Indirect competitors
9. Identity
11. Recruitment 3 commits 0 minutes Finding people is hard. more people
13. Version 0.0
15. Process tools
20. ❏ Adding things to your MVP while doing something else ❏ Implementing too generic/reusable solutions ❏ Pixel-perfect prototypes ❏ Refactorings ❏ Prioritization ❏ Focusing ❏ Implementing quick prototypes ❏ Testing your solutions ❏ Notes Avoid Do more MVP and Prototypes
21. Make it work. Make it right. Make it fast.
22. Techstack Vue.js Vuex
23. Iteration
24. Planitro today
25. SEO :(
28. 1. Got all the cities with population > 15k (~22k) 2. Crawled description from wikipedia (node-wikifetch) 3. Defined criteria for routes a. Number of cities b. Distance between cities c. Total distance d. Population 4. Generated routes using graphs a. Billions in first tests b. 40k after defined criterias Algorithm
29. Summary Find a problem and define a solution. Discover competitors. Find a team. Choose a name. Define MVP and stick to it. Build a prototype. Test. Iterate more. Think of SEO.
30. Thank you. @jesprider jesprider@gmail.com