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I'm building SaaS and documenting the process. Day 27: finishing the main page, sorting, and editing post page

This is the twenty-seventh episode in the reality show about the development SaaS app from scratch. The previous episodes:

Open SaaS development from scratch: why and what
Day 1: requirements and UI wireframes
Day 2: admin pages
Day 3: user pages
Day 4: database models, database update, and a couple of new wireframe pages
Day 5: started API and made changes to the database models
Day 6: created the admin board and new problems
Day 7: board settings page
Day 8: board settings page, more details and tabs
Day 9: board settings page, more tabs
Day 10: finished all 4 meta lists for board settings page
Day 11: experimenting with subdomains
Days 12 & 13: subdomains, separate apps, and user interface
Day 14: end-user UI for creating and editing posts
Day 15: end-user UI - bug fixes and list of user's posts with paging
Day 16: the skeleton of public page with the list of posts
Day 17 & 18: working on the public page
Day 19: Post view and voting
Day 20: finished voting functionality and started comments
Day 21st: finished comments, improved voting, and started board admin panel for user mngment
Day 22nd: finished board admin user management
Forced break and the startup idea for those who want new ideas
Day 23: verified user and publishing posts
Day 24: adding a touch of beauty to list of user's posts
Break 2 (flu and new components) and day 25: finishing board admin
Day 26: polishing the main page

Yesterday I kind of finished working on the main page for a board, at least I think it's good enough for MVP. What it looks like now:

Main page

Also, I added sorting. Now you can sort posts by time and vote result.
Then I fixed a couple of bugs and improved the page where you can edit your post (bugs and appearance):
Post editing

I marked with red what I have to fix next.

Time spent: 3 hours
Total time spent so far: 65.5 hours

Thanks! Stay tuned!

on April 13, 2020
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