Before Katy Builds: 6 Quick Checkpoints 👀

Sharon L Simmons

3d (edited) • Building 🛠️

Y’all, I saw a playbook with six things to think through before asking AI to build an app:

1. What should it do? What problem are you solving, and who is it for?

2. What does it need? Any tools or services it needs to work with?

3. What’s the flow? What does someone do first, next, and after that?

4. What should it look like? Think about the screens and how people will use them.

5. What information does it need to keep? This matters if your app saves things like accounts, payments, or user details.

6. What should we build and test first? A small first step can save a lot of backtracking 😂

Now, I’m not saying we need six fancy documents before every build. That can become a whole project by itself! 😅

But when Katy is ready to build from the prompt we give her, this list can help us check whether we’ve explained enough. We can ask her to organize the pieces we’re missing, review the plan, then let her build.

For a small app, a few clear notes may be plenty. For an app that saves information or handles payments, it helps to think through those details first.

Save this for your next build. Which one do you usually figure out last?

Are y’all with me? 👀

Oh yeh, Katy is (LOVABLE)💜

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Before Katy Builds: 6 Quick Checkpoints 👀