r/Devvit • u/Ornery_Fortune_1849 • 1d ago
Help Starting my first Devvit app: a Project Brief Builder for websites and systems
Hi everyone!
I’m beginning my journey with the Reddit Developer Platform and planning my first Devvit app. My background and current interests include website development, business systems, digital solutions, and tools that help organize service and delivery workflows.
For my first project, I’m considering building a Project Brief Builder that works inside a Reddit post.
The idea is to help users organize the requirements for a digital project before asking for technical advice or requesting a quote. The app could guide users through questions such as:
- What type of project do you need: website, online store, internal system, delivery solution, or mobile app?
- What is the primary objective?
- Who is the intended audience?
- Which features are required?
- Is there an expected deadline?
- What information or materials are already available?
After answering the questions, the app would generate a structured project brief that the user could review and copy. My intention is to create something useful for programming, small-business, freelance, and project-planning communities—not an advertising or lead-generation tool.
I’m currently at the planning stage and would appreciate guidance from experienced Devvit developers:
- Is this a suitable and realistic first Devvit project?
- Which Devvit features would be best for collecting answers and generating the summary?
- Are there privacy or app-review concerns I should consider from the beginning?
- What would you include in the smallest useful first version?
- Are there similar existing apps that I should study before building?
I’m reading the official quickstart documentation and plan to begin with the React template. Any advice for a first-time Devvit developer would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you!
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u/YellowAdventurous366 App Developer 1d ago
- No, that wouldn’t really fit devvit. Make a standalone website or app
- If you want to generate answers/summaries, you can either pay for an AI api, or make the mods of the subreddit it’s installed on cover the AI api key.
- Don’t scrape Reddit to get your answers!
- Not sure
- Also not sure
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u/Sky3HouseParty 1d ago
While I think a general product like that could have some utility, I don't think it makes sense for a devvit app. The apps that are being made here ideally should be utilising the advantages of the reddit platform ie the already established community, the integration with comments and posts etc. The way you've described your app, it feels like it could be made outside of reddit and it would function identically. Then there is also the question of why a developer would use a devvit specific thing instead of something else.