Build your own Etsy with Claude Code

A marketplace for handmade goods: seller shops with listings, search and categories, cart across multiple shops and more.

Big buildPayments, real-time, regulation or heavy infrastructure

The Claude Code prompt

Build my own take on Etsy: a marketplace for handmade goods. Give it an original name, logo, colours and copy, and do not use Etsy's name, branding or assets.

Version one should have:
- Seller shops with listings
- Search and categories
- Cart across multiple shops
- Orders and shipping status
- Reviews

The hard part: Multi-seller checkout and payouts. Use Stripe Connect and split orders per shop.

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: seller shops with listings, 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

  • Seller shops with listings
  • Search and categories
  • Cart across multiple shops
  • Orders and shipping status
  • Reviews

The hard part

Multi-seller checkout and payouts. Use Stripe Connect and split orders per shop.

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

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