I'm thinking of making a new social media app. Yes or no?

1. do it because you love to learn new stuff, psychology, design, marketing, business stuff, legal stuff.

2. search a niche where there is no competition. Research your competition and do it better.

3. Coding comes last. The idea, the user need covered, the concept is what matters. And for that take your time.

4. Make it fun to use and surprise the user. Color, font, illustration/pictures wording matter.

5. Don't expect it to be sucsessful but have fun while doing it.

6. Do a MVP a minimal lovable product. What that means you see in the picture.

good luck 🙂

@heyheni I'm actually only 15 years old but I've been coding since I was 10. I know more or less how to build the app. I'm just not an experienced developer. I've never built a product/service before and I don't know what kinds of APIs or tests or libraries etc I need. I can build it with a basic UI but not sure how to make it 'flow' or look beautiful. I've seen stuff on GitHub and they are all extremely detailed and complex. There's a lot of math and physics going around and actually making custom UI is still baffiling me. But I want to be a developer. It's who I am.

@BetaP
Great! 🙂

If you not interested in interface and user expierience i would recommend you to find another topic to work on.
Because a social media network is heavily reliant on that.

But if you're interested to learn ui design, here's some advice.
1. pen and paper is the best way to find ui ideas. after that you can narrow it down with www.balsamiq.com
2. on www.medium.com you'll learn a ton. Sign up and subscribe to https://uxplanet.org
3. www.fonts.google.com is a fantastic place to get good fonts for free. Use www.modularscale.com to determine font sizes and proportion. If you use a light font as main text use bold for titles. And for regular bodytext use black as title.

https://goo.gl/85NdfG
Web Typography 101 – Medium

designtool
www.figma.com

@heyheni Thanks although I am an Android/mobile developer.