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I think you'll be surprised at how fast you can get something up. Just keep it really basic. Figure out the simplest thing you can do that will get people to sign up, build that, and then keep building more. Even if you build at an extremely slow rate, you can have something up relatively soon.

Start with a page that tells users what the site will do and collect email addresses while building the second part.

I coded in high school in 2003-2004 and stopped for 5 years or so. I came back and it took me about 1.5-2 months to build a full website that guides hs athletes through the recruitment process and builds them a profile. It took a lot of learning through errors and hours of trying to determine what was wrong only to find I was missing a semi-colon. Build with jquery & php. Now I feel as if the same project would only take me two weeks.

The more you code, the quicker it will become to build anything.

I built another website that helps you share what you're wearing and buy clothes through shopping api's. The core functions were built in about a week and a half and the rest of the time was spent perfecting the ui and building the graphic design.