20 min · up to 90 XP

Plan the app

From idea to a build plan your AI can execute.

Module 5, and the training wheels come off: Sam is going to build something real, end to end. The idea has been waiting since her first week, the reading list, now with a proper name: BookNook.

Tonight she opens the notebook page. Nine features stare back: add books, see the list, mark finished, star ratings, search, reading stats, book covers, a social feed, even an in-app book shop. Every single one feels essential. Her cursor hovers over a fresh chat.

Check your intuition

Nine features, one evening, one very willing AI. What's Sam's first move?

Sam's recruiter brain knows this move. A job spec with twenty "essential" requirements hires nobody, the first real meeting is always must-have versus nice-to-have. Software has a name for the must-have pile: the MVP, minimum viable product. Not the app minus the good bits. The smallest version that's genuinely usable, the one Sam would actually open on the bus tomorrow.

Sort her nine ideas. Be ruthless; nothing is deleted, only sequenced.

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