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Diary - Building my own social midia - Picking the tech stack - 3/X

Wederson Cabral Domingues — Sat, 13 Apr 2024 00:32:24 +0000

Disclaimer

I decide to create this post series as a dairy of my creating my own App journey.

I'm not a expert on web or mobile development,(I work as a BI Consultant by the way) I just love programming and discover how the things works, So be worried that this isn't a 'HOW TO' post.

I just decided write this post because I'm having problems to sleep 🥲,

The tech stack.

This is one of the most important steps at an project and some decisions madded here could cause severally problems on the future.

But we will just ignore that and choose the easiest way of having the things done. Why? Because it is a POC!! Our objective is just test the idea adherence.

Points to considerate:

I'm not a software engineer expert;
I hate heavy frameworks, I like to keep the things simple;
The best options would be creating a app, but looks really harder then just build a website;
Everything must be free(Because I'm poor).

Based on all this points I decided for using the following technologies:

Restful API:

Mustasch Template;
_hyperscripy;
NodeJS with Express;

Data API:

NodeJS with Express.

Data Base:

MongoDB.

Maybe their is the worst tech stack ever? Maybe but it's keep everything simple and let me focus on the really villain: the problem.

Now let's code it \o/.

Dairy - Building my own social midia - Validating the Idea 2/X

Wederson Cabral Domingues — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 23:42:26 +0000

Disclaimer

I decide to create this post series as a dairy of my creating my own App journey.

I'm not a expert on web or mobile development,(I work as a BI Consultant by the way) I just love programming and discover how the things works, So be worried that this isn't a 'HOW TO' post.

I just decided write this post because I'm having problems to sleep 🥲,

Validating the idea

The first step on creating a new app is validate the idea. It is important know if the app would be useful for more people or just solve a personal problem.

The easier way of validating my idea was asking for friends and family opinions.. but.. no one.. like it 🫠🫠.

I searched for similar apps and I had founded projects like letterbox, good reads and even Google Maps place ratting. That means there are people like me that like to rate things and share their thoughts.. so.. ok there is a public to be explored.

In the worst case I would learn more about creating a real app and publish it to use as a personal dairy or something like that.. so why not?

What should I do first?

After decided keep going with the project, I faced my first problem: what should I do first? and the awnser was: making the POC (-:.

The goal was create the minium necessary functionalities to test if the app would be something that is useful(at least for me) or would be a boarding app to open 3 times and forget in the phone basement.

The first feature list was:

Enable user rate something from 1 to 5;
Enable user append hashtags on it;
Enable user to write a short description;
Store the rated thing on a data base;
Show the list of rated things.

Dairy - Building my own social mídia - The Idea - 1/X

Wederson Cabral Domingues — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 04:39:17 +0000

Disclaimer

I decide to create this post series as a dairy of my creating my own App journey.

I'm not a expert on web or mobile development,(I work as a BI Consultant by the way) I just love programming and discover how the things works, So be worried that this isn't a 'HOW TO' post.

I just decided write this post because I'm having problems to sleep 🥲,

The Idea

I really love rating and track everything. I'm the kind of guy that always ask for a '1 to 5' score after seen a movie with my friends.

In this days we already have apps to rate and track movies, books, places and etc,

The problem is that I didn't find a place where I could rate everything.

Like movies, books, my lastest English class, even rate my mom dinner(Always 3, she hate cooks and we can feel that on the food 🫠) and etc.

So.. why having 5 apps accounts or making hard to track Facebook posts when I could have everything on one app?

And was with this though that Judging Seal project starts.