Have you ever tried to build an web app?? Have you ever dreamed of building a successful web app and earn alot through it?? Many ones think that it requires lots of knowledge, skills, programming languages etc. Or many ones think like there's an investment in making successful web application but they don't have money. Okay, I agreed, once my mindset was also like same as of you now.
You are here means you have interest in building web applications or have build one. No worries, here I'm. In this article I'm gonna tell you step by step guide to build an successful web app from beginner level and how to start a startup with it.
For start building an web app you first require an idea about what your gonna be build and how it will solve real time problems. Like Facebook has been build with an social media network idea, Zomato build with home delivery food servicing idea, Amazon has been build with online shopping idea, Google has been build with online worldwide search engine idea and many more are there. That's how much its important to find an unique and innovative idea to build an web app.
But you'll say how can we get unique ideas?? Okay, here I'll tell you, You can get many ideas from reading book, watching movies. Not like watching comedy movie or reading comic book you will get ideas. Read business, startup, entrepreneurship related books like Rich dad poor dad - one of my fav, The lean startup, Zero to one etc. Watch movies like The social network, Wolf of wall street, Billionaire boys club etc. By consistent reading, gaining more and more knowledge on entrepreneurship there's high chance you'll get an idea about what type of web app to build.
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Sketch your Web App and Define its Functionality
After finding correct idea about your web app start planning to define its functionality. Like what your web app is gonna do and what functions you'll include in your web app by which visitors will like to use it. Do research, see other quality successful web apps, take an idea from them that how their UI is designed and start making sketch of your web app. But, keep in mind that don't copy same UI design as other web apps have. Design in your own attractive way.
visitors will firstly see your web app's UI. As we all also do like the same thing. You start using a web app when you'll like the UI design you start enjoying its functionality. So, think in that way by which you will get an idea about what type of functionalities and UI design will be most unique and visitors will enjoy it.
Wireframing / Prototyping Your Web Application
Wireframes helps establish functionality and the relationships between different screen templates of a website. A wireframe is a two-dimensional illustration of a page's interface that specifically focuses on space allocation and prioritization of content, functionalities available, and intended behaviors. And a website prototype can be any mock-up or demo of what a website will look like when it goes live. It can be anything from a paper sketch to a clickable HTML prototype.
Its an important thing to prototype an website. If after launching your web app if clients will come and says this function pops up, or their is some error coming in your web app it will put bad impression on client and he/she can give negative feedback. That's where prototyping your web app comes into play. If you go direct to development without prototyping it then the above mentioned reasons can comes into play. So, my suggestion is before going to development its important thing to put some effort in creating a prototype of your web app. And same with wireframing also.
Choose, Plan and Build your Database
Choosing a right database is as important as building your web app. For your web application to store maximum data, to handle more number of users a good database is required. Some of the most popular databases which you can use for your web app are :
But, before choosing the database for your web app be sure about... How much data do you expect to store when the application is launched? , How many users do you expect to handle simultaneously? , What availability, scalability, latency, throughout, and data consistency does your application need? , How often will your database schemas change? etc. Once you got answers about all these questions you can choose your preferred database and move further.
Build your Web Application
Once you are done with idea, wireframing and prototyping, making sketch and defining functionality, and choosing right database its now time to build your application that's the main work we gonna do now. Web applications are built using various programming languages combined together and proper knowledge about required programming languages is must for making web apps to find and solve error. Everyone atleast once faces an error in his life if he's/she's doin' programming! lol. But, yes its reality. You must know error handling.
Choose required and correct language for making web apps and become good in that by learning and practicing. I'll tell you some easy programming languages to learn to build an web app. You can build frontend using:
If you wanna use any other language you can do that too. Not an issue. There are many languages by which you can build an awesome web application.
Test, Deploy and Market your Web App
After you finished building your web application. Now, its time to Deploy your application and test. Weather its running properly, loading quickly, free of bugs, attractive UI design etc this things you wanna test once... to get positive feedback from visitors and they'll enjoy using it.
Now the last step comes about marketing your web app. Now in 2021 and in coming years also you will not face any problem for marketing your product, web application or anything. Coz digital marketing is in trend. You can publish your app on playstore and can make viral it through various social media accounts.
If you want more detailed information on marketing or if you have questions like where to do marketing?? or how to do?? Your all questions will be resolved here. If you wanna read my 7 Unique Business Ideas for College Students article you can read. Their I've explained about different marketing strategies. And in The Role of Creativity in Marketing - An Ingredient to Success!!! this article I explained about role of marketing. If you want you can surely read.
Conclusion
If you have ever dreamed of making an real time web app and wanna start startup with it. Means you have interest in web apps and wanna become an entrepreneur using your programming knowledge. Ohh, its awesome. If you dreamed then, let your dream come in real world. Work consistently on your web app. Its an big thing of building and web app and it takes time. But most importantly don't loose hope, if you got error no worries resolve it no matter how much time you spend. If you fail in startup don't leave it as a dream only. Make your web app more functional and work more on it. No entrepreneur and their web apps are their this world with no failures. You'll become successful surely just follow above steps.
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Vrushal,
(Freelance Writer and Web Developer)
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