“I basically started taking what I thought would be helpful and I started drawing it out in a notebook and I was thinking about the way I wanted the information to be presented... I taught myself how to basically create them as wireframes in Photoshop and Illustrator and then I went to an agency and I could not afford to work with the agency... then at one point a student developer said that he would love to work with me and so that's how I was able to finally launch that first MVP.”

Notebook Sketches → Photoshop Wireframes → A Student Developer = MVP

With no technical background, Anya sketched flows in a notebook, taught herself Photoshop and Illustrator to turn them into wireframes, and after being priced out by an agency, partnered with a student developer to ship Rooted. Doing the design and content prep upfront meant the build itself only took a few months.