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I need to create an application that is essentially a CRUD one ; it will become a SaaS once it's done enough.

What tech stack to use?

I need to do a "working wireframe" (=> everything but not nice design, logo, colors) within ten days (during evenings and week-ends). I will then show it to potential (?) customers.

It needs to work great on laptop, on mobile devices, and should be able to work in the future with voice commands. In any case, it has to be really quick/reactive, super simple+beautiful=pure.

My tech experience is PHP (with frameworks), bootstrap, jQuery, and a small slice of Angular (so pretty "old"-fashioned tech stack).

A technology with a pretty looong learning curve wouldn't be that interesting because I wouldn't be able to do a prototype within days, and I may get discouraged quickly.

What would be the best choice, and why?

I am a wantrepreneur. For over 7 years, I have wanted to start something. Really hard, wanted. Surely, I have tried to find an audience for a twisted "Come Dine With Me" (but who would host 3 others random unknown people in their own house??), have started some websites (extractemailaddress.com, linux-commands-examples.com) in the hope to get a big enough niche audience... But all I can get is an average of 8€ per month of donations, which barely covers my hosting costs.

I am trying to get new ideas done. But after one day of programming for my job, I am exhausted and I cannot extract any brain-juice any more. And if I try to work during the week-ends, I can't rewind enough for the next week. And my progress are damn slow. It seems I would need a year to achieve what a good programmer could do in a week.

It seems to me impossible I would be one day a Takuya Matsuyama who makes enough for a living with its app (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18216783), let alone be a Mark Zuckerberg. Even if I have some theoretical knowledge of starting things, as I have read news, stuff, feedback on HN and other sites for years.

Creating a successful business seems to me like the only viable career path to me. I don't see myself as a good developer (maybe it is due to the First month in a new company imposter syndrome, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18257767). So this is not a long-term plan. And I have nerver learned to do anything else. So the only thing left is to create some things, and be successful enough in at least one to make a living out of it.

What should I do?

The "$20 Starbucks Test" is the best test of a startup idea. You don't even need a prototype. You just need to get to your local coffee, walk up to strangers and talk to them about your startup idea pretending it's your brother's. Then collect feedback.

Great... great ?! However good this idea might be, some might have some problem to strike up a conversion with a random stranger.

How would you (have you) overcome this ? What pushed you to do it ? Do you have any idea of a startup-idea-test that does not involve coding ?

Any advice welcome.

I would like to start a business as Startup Consultancy. That would provide feedback, an external point of view, assistance and support for people in order for them to have more chance to succeed in their startup. However startups have no money to start with. So it's hard to make them pay as little as 5oo€/$500 per month for this kind of service.

What are the different way to make money for this kind of consultancy in the short or long term ?

What are the best ways to get in touch with a mentor ?

For anybody who's about to rush into creating their own startup, or for those who have recently startup it, it's always a good idea to benefit from tips, experience, network, inspiration, encouragement, energy from someone who has been through kind of the same thing.

So how have you meet your mentor ?

I am developing it from my own computer, and would like now to put it online. What is the best hosting/service for that at the moment ?

You have a website, and have a donation button : how much do you on average per month ? What is the ratio donation/traffic ?

I am starting a job soon.

What is your top 5 best advice when starting a new job ?

What is the best web articles you have read about that ?

I would like to be effective from day one, but have always spent months to actually ship any code in previous jobs. It's a job as a web developer in a small web agency.

I am starting a job soon.

What is your best advice when starting a new job ?

What is the best web articles you have read about that ?

I would like to be effective from day one, but have always spent months to actually ship anything in previous jobs . It's a job as a web developer in a small web agency.