It's time to clone a startup product, the simple version!
- Choose one of many products like Bit.ly, Twitter, Facebook, Airbnb, Product Hunt, Google, Quora, Stack Overflow, etc
- Ideate, choose, and plan the product
- Build the wireframe and mockup
- Build the initial data model
- Build the initial UI and routes
- Ship it!
- Build the initial API: CRUD/BREAD functionalities
- Integrate the API gradually with the UI
- Add data input validation
- Build the authentication: basic or OAuth
- Build the account confirmation system
- Build the forgot password system
- Add other systems: analytics, logging, payment, etc
- Optimize for responsive design
- Finalization
- Presentation