While coding startup projects few things are quiet important and influence the overall success of the project. This article explain 5 most important points. The presentation is a summary of my thoughts on the essential guidelines for a developer working on a startup project based on my experience with the technology and application development for startup.

1. 5 points to know while coding
startup projects
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2. What defines a typical startup project?
● Final goal is not clearly defined at the start
● Agility is the key, throughout the development cycle
● Chance for drastic changes or total re coding
● Market, time & budget defines priority rather than final product
● Speed of delivery is critical than quality and security
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3. 5 golden rules in startup coding
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4. 1. Know your customer!!
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5. 1. Know the Business & Customer
● Understand the business model & market of your product
● Understand the main targeted customer and main usecases
● Will help to decide the order of priority of functionality
● Will help in creating better test cases
● Will help to identify the level of tolerance to mistakes
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6. 2. Speed is the Key!!
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7. 2. Plan quick releases & agile life cycle
● Don’t wait till the end. Make quick releases and roll out to market
● Design agile life cycle with weekly or bi weekly releases.
● Collect feedback from customers and upgrade flow & functionality
● Be ready to scrap a portion of code fully if needed
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8. 3. Play within your strengths!!
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9. 3. Avoid experimenting with languages
● Avoid using technology or tool that you are not familiar. You can learn
it later when you have free time.
● Select the technology that you/team is most comfortable and
experienced with
● Wrong language or tool will waste time, create bugs and might cause
wrong usage patterns.
● Right language will save time and helps to save effort by reuse.
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10. 4. Less is more!!
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11. 4. Code less, Keep it simple & Clean
● Keep a simple framework to ensure speed and agility
● Keep minimal essential code & structure
● Keep hooks which can be expanded later
● Few hard cording will be okay, if it saves time & effort
● Keep the code flexible to be modified anytime with least effort
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12. 5. Don’t build a castle when you can manage
with a cottage!!
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13. 5. Keep the application light weight
● Avoid complex architecture and code heavy application initially
● An MVP can afford few unfinished secondary use cases
● Focus only on primary functionalities & flows initially
● Care, less about quality & security ‘if the initial users can live with it’
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14. You can always rework on loose parts and
perfect them after you gain market traction!
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15. Thank You!
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Arun Sadasivan
Technology Expert & Consultant