Keep in mind that a lot of these "over night" stories are either bogus (digg story comes to mind), built using an existing framework of their own that took much

Keep in mind that a lot of these "over night" stories are either bogus (digg story comes to mind), built using an existing framework of their own that took much longer to write or extremely simple sites. If you want to improve your development speed here are some tips: Build a wireframe in advance for each screen so you can step through your app first. Make sure you have every part that needs to be built planned planned out ahead of time. You should be able to browse you're entire site using these frames. Build your code into a framework. Make as many of the common pages you build use code that just drops in so you only have to tweak the UI. Then on future projects you'll have much of it already built. Code faster by not coding as much. Build a minimal viable product first. Then focus on features people request after they test. This will have a double effect. Because you got something out fast you'll feel like you coded faster. You'll also keep from wasting time on features no one will use.