Coffee Driven Developer

Strategy

Objectives

• Look into or deepen knowledge about topics of web development with the following order of importance:
  1. what I like or find interesting;
  2. what is happening in the community;
  3. things I need for work;
• Improve communication skills;
• Self-market;

User needs

• Learn new things, eventually not in full details;
• Find what they need in a few keywords;
• Always have something to practice with (GitHub repositories);

Scope

Functional requirements

• List articles;
• Search articles by keywords (tags);
• Link between articles;
• Reading time estimation;
• Newsletter subscription;
• Content editable via GitHub (users can submit a PR to fix articles);

MVP trade-offs:

• Mobile only;
• Hosted on GitHub;
• Comments on Twitter;

Content requirements

• Easier over more detailed (create another article for details);
• SEO is crucial (topics easy to find, Manuel easy to find);
• Predictable pattern:
  • Introduction
  • Example
  • Explanation
  • Code
  • Final words
• Use ample spectrum cultural references: books, music, movies, cuisine
• Keep it short. No more than 10 minutes read;