Build your own Booksy with Claude Code

Booking for barbers and beauty pros: business profile with services, book and reschedule, reminders by SMS and more.

WeekendA working first version in a day or two

The Claude Code prompt

Build my own take on Booksy: booking for barbers and beauty pros. Give it an original name, logo, colours and copy, and do not use Booksy's name, branding or assets.

Version one should have:
- Business profile with services
- Book and reschedule
- Reminders by SMS
- Deposits
- Reviews

The hard part: No-shows. Take deposits and send reminders.

How to build it:
1. Read this folder first. If it is empty, set up Next.js (App Router, TypeScript, Tailwind) with Postgres through Prisma or Supabase, and Supabase Auth or Auth.js for sign-in. Write a short PLAN.md with the data model, screens, third-party services and what you are leaving out of version one.
2. Build the core loop end to end before anything else: business profile with services, working with real data saved to the database.
3. Add the rest of the features one at a time, and seed realistic demo data so every screen looks alive.
4. Keep API keys in environment variables, and put any paid service behind a small interface with a local stub, so the app runs on a fresh machine without accounts.
5. Run it, click through every screen on desktop and mobile widths, fix what breaks, and finish with a summary of what works, what is stubbed and how to deploy it.

Paste it into Claude Code in an empty folder. It plans first, so read PLAN.md and steer before it starts building.

Version one

  • Business profile with services
  • Book and reschedule
  • Reminders by SMS
  • Deposits
  • Reviews

The hard part

No-shows. Take deposits and send reminders.

Make it yours: a niche Booksy ignores, an original name and brand, and one feature it does badly done well.

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