Vibe coding your first app can be addictive, but cleaning up bugs and fighting with Claude at 2am sucks. These are the questions I'd answer before building anything, plus a prompt that turns your answers into a plan.
Free. Just your first name and email, and it opens straight away.
Add your name and email and the whole list opens straight away, right here on this page.
Rough answers are enough to start. Then the prompt turns them into a plan. The questions are in the guide.
The questions · 9 parts
Build or buy?
Check you actually need to build it.
The job, in one sentence
Find the smallest version that's useful this week.
Two lists
What it must do, and what it must never do.
Who uses it
Who'll use it and what each person's allowed to see.
Data and money
How careful you need to be with what it holds.
Passwords and keys
Keeping your passwords out of the code.
Login and admin
Checking the login actually keeps people out.
Hosting
Where it lives once it's built.
Who maintains it
Who looks after it once it's live.
Then · the planning prompt
Let the AI ask you the questions
Turns your answers into a one-page plan before any code.
and you're not sure what to decide before you start.
and you're spending more time fixing bugs than building.
and you want to know how careful to be.
when there might be a tool you could just pay for.
Vibe coding your first app can be addictive, but cleaning up bugs and fighting with Claude at 2am sucks. When vibe coding, planning is key.
The AI makes a lot of decisions while it builds, like how your data's stored and who can log in. The more of these you've answered, the fewer bugs you're fixing later.
So these are the questions I'd answer before building anything. I added a prompt that asks you them one at a time and writes the plan before any code.
No. A rough answer to every question is enough to start.
The full list opens on this page straight away. All 27 questions and the planning prompt. It stays open on the same phone or laptop when you come back.
Yes. Your first name and email, and the list opens. No card, nothing to buy.
Claude, ChatGPT or whatever you build with. In Claude Code, turn on plan mode first, so it plans before it touches anything.
If it touches customer data or payments, it's probably not your first app. Or get someone who can read code to check it before anyone uses it.
Grab the list and write the job your app does in one short sentence.
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