Playbook
Playbook

Custom Web App Playbook

A guided 9-step journey for building a Next.js + Postgres web application — from one-line idea to deployed app — with the right prompts, skills, and definition-of-done at each phase.

9 steps1-2 days for a small CRUD app
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  1. 01
  2. 02
  3. 03
  4. 04
  5. 05
  6. 06
  7. 07
  8. 08
  9. 09

Tell us what you're building

We use these answers to surface the prompts, skills, and MCP configs that fit your stack — and to substitute stack values like {{database}} into the prompts you copy. Content (PRDs, code, etc.) stays in your repo. Everything you enter here is stored in your browser — nothing is sent to a server.

1-3 sentences. The clearer your one-liner, the better the prompts you'll write in your IDE.

Choose your frontend, backend, and database. We'll surface stack-specific templates and substitute these values into prompts where it helps.

Have a brief.txt already?
Upload it to pre-fill the one-liner above.

Steps you'll go through

  1. 01

    Capture the Problem & Write a PRD

    20 min

    Turn your one-liner into a structured Product Requirements Document.

  2. 02

    Break the PRD into User Stories

    15 min

    Turn the PRD into INVEST-compliant user stories with acceptance criteria.

  3. 03

    Create Jira Tickets for the Stories

    10 min

    Push your stories into Jira and link them to an epic.

  4. 04

    Make Key Architecture Decisions

    30 min

    Document database, hosting, and auth choices as Architecture Decision Records.

  5. 05

    Design the Database Schema

    45 min

    Generate the schema and initial migrations from your domain model.

  6. 06

    Scaffold the API

    1 hour

    Generate REST endpoints, validation, and the OpenAPI spec for each resource.

  7. 07

    Build the Frontend Pages

    2 hours

    Scaffold each page with proper server / client component boundaries.

  8. 08

    Self-Review Your Code

    20 min

    Run a comprehensive code review over the diff before opening PRs.

  9. 09

    Containerize & Ship

    30 min

    Generate a production Dockerfile and deploy to your hosting target.

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