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by JoelSutherland 6503 days ago
As Fred Brooks says, "build one to throw away."

Speaking as someone with a CS degree, I can say that the Computer Science is not the hard part of making a good application. Rather, it is the domain knowledge. Build something you and others will want from the start.

The programming will come -- the biggest challenge is creating something people want.