Figured this would be the perfect place? Skip to dot points for questions if you don’t care for the idea😂
Built a small web app as a side project, it takes assignments and asks how many days until it's due, and returns a day-by-day action plan a student can actually follow.
The design is based on how students actually get stuck, task initiation. Not the assignment itself, but the moment before they start it. That paralysis where the task feels too big to touch. The app breaks it into steps small enough that the first one is obvious, and gives task specific problem solving cues to do when they hit a wall mid-task. It’s not doing the work for them but it aims to lower the cognitive load of planning and lowers barrier to entry.
I do this day to day in my profession and I’ve seen this pattern time and time again and honestly, something like this would have helped me as a student too. Built it because nothing I could find was designed around that specific problem (but also I needed something to build to learn to build things out of interest)
Now I want to test it with real users to see if it holds up outside of my own head. Just want some honest feedback.
Obviously I’m in Australia and the legal/business side is new territory (bit scary). A few things I can’t find a straight answer on:
- Free MVP, no revenue: do I need an ABN at this point or can that wait?
- Sole trader vs Pty Ltd: when does that decision actually matter? Do you have to set these things up everytime you build something and want to test
- Minimum legal pages before letting people use it: privacy policy, T&Cs what’s actually required vs just good practice?
- Any API gotchas: terms of service, liability, anything people get caught out on early?
Just want to cover the basics and not make a silly mistakes early.
Appreciate any help!