What should I code/program?

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Kemal Ardıl Gülez


Build a clone of at least one of the following:

• Quora
• Facebook
• Jira
• Strawpoll
• Pastebin
• Medium
• HackerNews
• YouTube
• Twitter
• http://Bit.ly

Don’t think that these things are too advanced for you right now. Do you know exactly how simple the back end is behind all these products? Well, it’s not as simple as I tell you it is, but it’s still much simpler than you think it is. Do you know how much you can learn about them just by pressing F12? Do you know the browser logs the network requests over the network tab of developer tools?

Building a clone is not as easy as it sounds. It forces you to think about product development in a way you never did. It makes you think about the following:

• What is the problem that the product solves?
• What does the product do in order to solve the problem? And why?
• How can the product be defined in 15 seconds? Or 30 seconds? Or 2 minutes?
• What is the weak side of the product? What is an annoyingly simple feature that the product is currently lacking?
• Why can’t the product developers develop that annoyingly simple feature? What do they need? What is stopping them?
• If you can’t find reasonable answers to the questions in one bullet above this one, why aren’t you building that feature in your clone?
• If you can find reasonable answers to the questions in 2 bullets above this one, how can you overcome the challenge?

You possess a much more important skill than you currently realize. Use it wisely.



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