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Step by Step Rapid Prototyping with Google App Engine and Bootstrap

AARON WHITE@aaronwhite

Singular Goal: ValidationDoes anyone care about what I’m doing? What’s the easiest path to figure that out?

Boil it to the bare essentialsA good three-sentence customer value pitch is 1000x more valuable than any of the code you’ll write.

Talk is CheapThat’s a good thing... use it!

Landing Page TestsUnbounce

Not possible? Let’s code.Like martial arts, it’s a last resort (unless it’s for fun!)

TweetFavorI have a pain... is there a solution? Are there others who feel the pain like I do?

Google’s App Engine

Hosting

Scalable Data Store

App Layer

Multiple Language Support

Platform as a Service

Twitter’s Bootstrap

Sensible Design Defaults

Pleasant typographic baseline

Fixed & fluid layouts

Navigational components

Responsive design support

Getting Licensed(you only need to do these once)

Gmail account

Appspot.com account, install App Engine Tools

Github account, install Git Client

Text Editor (OSX? Sublime 2)

Pre-flight Checklist

Fork/clone ’gaebootstrapped’ starter project

Choose unique app name

Deploy to GAE

Iterate!

Architecture (MVC or bust)

Models.py

Managers.py

Controllers.py

Templates

Modeling

Business Logic

Page flows

Design

Finishing Touches

Custom Domain

Email

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