I wanted to start a Side Project and wasn’t sure what would it be ! I wanted to learn ReactJs and so decided to try out with very simple project. My background is in Web development and I have 3 years work experience. I would consider myself as Beginner in coding. This post is mostly catered to Reactjs developers. You guys must be already familiar with lots of stuff but I just want to share my experience.

#1 Niche or Competitive Website? I started my research 4 months ago, and what I found was everyone recommending to start a niche blog/site. Although niche website have its advantage in terms of easy SEO, I think there is good potential for high traffic competitive domains. In my case it was a dictionary app and its been a saturated product. But still I decided to go with it.

#2 UI is King I think very good design can help to intrigue users. Since this was my strong suite, I put lot of time for it. Here are few sites that I found to be helpful with Front End/UI Design. https://www.behance.net/ https://codepen.io/ https://dribbble.com/ https://www.awwwards.com/ https://www.cssdesignawards.com/ I think google fully crawls & indexes now in mobile version and it is very important to be responsive. Google chrome console can help you with that.

#3 Coding This is the challenging part for me. Although the application itself is not complicated, I had some struggles in between. I think ReactJs is a good framework/library for my kind of project. I also used couple of npm packages so to just fast track. I don’t want to link entire packages that I used. Here is the main website though — https://www.npmjs.com/

Check out the full medium article

https://medium.com/@oxfordify.en/how-i-built-a-web-app-in-four-months-that-is-ranked-169-170-according-to-alexa-traffic-rank-6fca2b521db0