any thought about the best way to start a solo project? I think going for the db schema first is easier, curious to see your opinion 😁

That is what I prefer to do.

TDD. A course called "Test Driven Laravel" has taught me how to approach starting new projects better.

Plan everything first, otherwise you will edit that db schema many times. The test driven Laravel thing makes sense

I start thinking from the user side. What all functionalities should be given to the user. Based on that, I make an architecture of the project and then I design the db schema. Though I have to reiterate many times over in this process but in the end I would have covered every possibility and test cases

Database schema and mock-ups in parallel before writing any line of code.

Get the model right first is always a good start :) you might have to live with it for a while