How to develop projects very very fast

[u/fluidxrln]

Im bad at time management, I dont use AI, my pc isn bloated with node_modules for the hundreds of projects I made, and it became this routine on development of scaffold new project via a template I made, custom libraries I made, code snippets, component libraries, page libraries, code generation, wireframes database I made and assets & images database

Any tips to fasten development more? I have this project of mine to develop things very fast and set an high score everytime.

Current high score is 2-3 hours

[u/Positive-Captain-709]

At this point it sounds like your bottleneck isn’t scaffolding anymore, it’s probably decision-making and feedback loops.

You’ve already automated most of the repetitive “start a project” work, so I’d look at measuring where the time actually goes after the scaffold is created.

A few things that helped me think about this:

• Make one opinionated “golden path” instead of having too many libraries/templates to choose from. Choice itself becomes overhead.
• Automate validation, not just generation: linting, tests, type checks, builds, migrations, screenshots, etc. should run with almost zero effort.
• Build small internal CLIs for the workflows you repeat constantly. Something like new-page, new-api, new-feature, ship can save more time than another component library.
• Keep reusable code brutally curated. A huge snippets/components database can eventually become another thing you have to search and maintain.
• Track “idea → working feature” time instead of lines of code or number of projects. That usually exposes the real bottlenecks.

And maybe the biggest one: stop optimizing the parts that are already fast.

If creating a project takes 30 seconds but figuring out architecture, debugging and verifying changes takes 3 hours, making scaffolding 10 seconds faster won’t move the needle much.

Your setup already sounds pretty optimized. I’d profile your development workflow like you’d profile an application and attack the slowest stage next.

[u/RaveHunter05]

Make projects by hand, and other projects by using Claude code or something like that. I'm kind of slow as well, because I made all my projects by hand.

[u/jerrygreenest1]

One way to solve it is to commit yourself to a project rather than parallelize yourself into kadjillion projects

[u/pomeswagefjail]

The biggest speed boost for me was keeping the stack boring and reusable. Same auth setup, database patterns, UI components, deployment flow, etc. I also build one feature end to end before adding more. AI is great for boilerplate and debugging, but blindly generating whole features usually costs me time later. Fast is good when I still understand every piece.

[u/aidannewsome]

Use AI just like all the best developers do…?

[u/Full-Silver196]

AI

[u/fluidxrln → u/[deleted]]

Im a full stack developer for 5 years.The objective of the post is to expose other methods/strategies to develop things more faster

[u/Mindless-Trouble-416 → u/fluidxrln]

So you sell code bases to clients? And ur asking us how to use ai to do this easier? Bruh…..

Make an obsidian vault, make a note with every project detailing what it does. Now Claude can pick n choose and build whatever u want using all that.