Build your own IMDb with Claude Code
A film and TV database: title pages with cast, people pages, ratings and more.
The Claude Code prompt
Build my own take on IMDb: a film and TV database. Give it an original name, logo, colours and copy, and do not use IMDb's name, branding or assets. Version one should have: - Title pages with cast - People pages - Ratings - Watchlist - Charts The hard part: Data. Use the TMDB API. 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: title pages with cast, 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
- Title pages with cast
- People pages
- Ratings
- Watchlist
- Charts
The hard part
Data. Use the TMDB API.
Make it yours: a niche IMDb ignores, an original name and brand, and one feature it does badly done well.
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