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What is your product development process?

Whether it is "Agile" or something else, companies usually have some kind of process and set of documents that are used for product development. Some of this is helpful for necessary for projects including multiple people, but can be thrown out if there is only one (or a few) people on the projecct.

What do y'all indie hackers do?

Do you jump straight into development? Do you design first? Do you have a set of documents (such as a mini-PRD) that you use?

on April 22, 2020
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    As a solo-dev I don't have much of a process, beyond making sure I have a system for organizing todos and notes (which is Notion these days). For complex features, I'll play around with design ideas in Figma, but for the most part I just build a feature with a loose sense of how it should work/look and then iterate from there.

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    I make a google sheet.

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      Made me lol, in a good way!

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        It's true. You should see the number of dead on arrival products that are a google sheets. and if it can graduate beyond a google sheet... it's very special.

        • Influence.Directory - started as a google sheet (graduated to Algolia for search)
        • BlackFridayTech - started as a google sheet (used sheetsu so the backend was always a google sheet)
        • Influence Weekly - started as a google sheet (techinically still is.. except for the email I send each week)
        • Creator Growth Lab - started as a google sheet (had technical limitations for scraping IG, but seriously for 5 years I used a google sheet to scrape IG follower counts for clients)
        • NoCodeBlack Friday - started as a google sheet
        • Better Sheets - started as a google sheet.
        • HypeLetter - started as a google sheet.
        • Adman By HypeLetter - started as a google sheet