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10 Best Practices for Successful Web Apps


  1. Speed - How fast product responses to user actions.
  2. Instant Utility - Instantly be useful, people don't like lot of configurations. Populate the service with default data, let user get up and started in no time.
  3. Voice - Software has to have a personality, people have to feel they are consuming media. 
  4. Less Is More - Simplicity is for startup and gives a platform to ultimately grow from their.
  5. Programmer - API's for others to use
  6. Personal - Customer should feel more personal or more ownership of the application, by putting more of their data, avatar or names, people should invest more time and energy
  7. RESTFul - clean urls
  8. SEO - Discoverable by google, social media etc
  9. Clean - Make very inviting, not too much of data on pages.
  10. Mobile, Social, Intelligent, Playful

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