FameofLight

I was trying to build this product over weekend.I know a little bit of Ruby on Rails ( really small ) have to search for almost everything on internet. The main mistake I did was with Ruby on Rails I started with lots of plugin twitter bootstrap , haml , devise , cancan ]. Now after 12 hours I analysed where am I, I didn't find it quite encourage.

I thought its better to stick with tech, you know I know a little bit of PHP , Mysql, JQuery so started writing this in PHP CodeIgniter . Although I was able to get better than ROR application in next 12 hours and it was easy to understand and I was able to followup quite easily. But I am writing lots of stuff is which available for free better designed solution in ROR in PHP from ground zero.

In long term I think it would make more sense to use ROR, not only from building the product. But if the current product fail I would be able to produce more app faster.

What you think, do you have any piece of advice for me.

You have a awesome idea, how do you take it to the prototype.

What steps you employ from being mere Idea to Product.

You check for market feasibility , You refine your idea, you write your use cases, you find your users, you draw your wireframes, you decide upon technology, you contact few early stage alpha customers, you refine based upon the feedback, you open to the product for general beta.

How you operate on these steps, everybody has different of doing things, HN will be immensily helpful if whose product has worked in past can show they did it.

Some of you might have very short cycle, I want to know your secrets.