any thought about the best way to start a solo project? I think going for the db schema first is easier, curious to see your opinion 😁

That is what I prefer to do.

Plan everything first, otherwise you will edit that db schema many times. The test driven Laravel thing makes sense

I start thinking from the user side. What all functionalities should be given to the user. Based on that, I make an architecture of the project and then I design the db schema. Though I have to reiterate many times over in this process but in the end I would have covered every possibility and test cases

Database schema and mock-ups in parallel before writing any line of code.

Get the model right first is always a good start :) you might have to live with it for a while