Starting a Project - What comes first?

When working on a project, I have trouble finishing unless I have defined first what I'm doing. How do you work? Do you jump straight into code? Maybe you talk it out for an hour, or five.

When you start a product, what's the first thing you do?

Comments

[Syed Zoheb]

Define a set time to spend on planning, coding and shipping. If you don't set deadline and jump directly on planning, you'll spend a lot of time perfecting the planning itself.

Here's how i would sum it up

• List out core functionalities of your project
• Set a deadline on planning, coding and shipping
• work on providing core functionalities rather than perfecting it in MVP
• Ship as fast as you can
• iterate

[Vinicius Melo]

I think one of the best things is to focus on distribution channels, if you don't have any, there is a big chance that you will fail to get adoption.

Founder @ Memocards.net & StackFolio.co

[Cristina Ruth]

I generally plan out features out so I can then prioritize the first feature I work on.

[Rich South]

This question reminds me of the Dilbert episode where PHB declares "First comes a name"

[Binyamin Green]

I've spent a fair amount of time planning my current project, DevMe.

Binyamin Green

@binyamingreen

Hard at work using @milanoteapp to plan out #DevMe. Gotta have a plan before you code, amiright?

17:39 PM - 28 Nov 2019

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