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Make the site actually work

Wire login, payments, the core feature and every link, without touching the design.

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Purpose::

What you promised and what competitors basically offer all works, on the design as it is.

Rules::

  • Never touch the design: layout, classes and copy stay
  • Login and payments via your standard setup; images from a CDN, never the app server
  • The production build is the test; keys never in code or replies

Inventory::

  • Your fit sentence and competitor basics
  • Auth provider, payment provider, database, CDN

Steps::

  1. 1List what must work: the fit sentence + the basics all competitors have
  2. 2Wire login and payments
  3. 3Build the core feature; its images go to the CDN
  4. 4Every link, button and form works; dead links wired or removed
  5. 5Deploy; on a failed build read the log, fix, deploy again
  6. 6Walk it live: signup, free use, upgrade; reply with what works

Metrics::

  • A visitor can sign up, use it free and pay
  • Zero dead links; screens look the same as before
Website.md

Purpose:: List the pages of the first website.

Steps::

  1. 1. Start with home, pricing
  2. 2. Add signup and signin if users get an account
  3. 3. Add the 1-3 pages where the idea and the success metric happen
  4. 4. Reply as one comma separated line

Plan a first sitemap

The 4-7 pages your first website needs, so every CTA and success metric has a page.

Website.md

Purpose:: Lock the main inspiration URL: the live site your first website follows in structure and craft.

Steps::

  1. 1. Think of 3 famous products that sell something close to your idea
  2. 2. Open each; note how the home page puts the main action first
  3. 3. Keep the one with the clearest, most detailed home
  4. 4. Reply with its homepage URL and one line on what you take from it

Pick an inspiration website

Lock one famous, live product site whose structure your first website will follow.

Website.md

Purpose:: Say in one concrete sentence why this project is a perfect fit for you.

Steps::

  1. 1. Read the project's purpose
  2. 2. Read what you are about and what you have
  3. 3. Find the overlap: what you already have that this project can offer
  4. 4. Write: we have <X> (evidence), so <project> offers <Y> to <buyer>

Prove the fit in one sentence

Say why this project is a perfect fit for you, with evidence of what you already have.

Website.md

Purpose:: Build the perfect alternative to your direct competitors: their best parts plus what visitors in this space are used to.

Steps::

  1. 1. Per competitor: note the landing, pages and flow
  2. 2. List what they all share (traditional) and the best part of each
  3. 3. Build the header, footer and home, then the other public pages from that list
  4. 4. Deploy; screenshot desktop and mobile; compare with the competitor screenshots; fix

Build the best alternative frontend

Take the best part of each direct competitor plus what visitors in the space expect, and build it better.