Build your own Later with Claude Code

A visual Instagram and TikTok planner: visual content calendar, media library, grid preview and more.

WeekendA working first version in a day or two

The Claude Code prompt

Build my own take on Later: a visual Instagram and TikTok planner. Give it an original name, logo, colours and copy, and do not use Later's name, branding or assets.

Version one should have:
- Visual content calendar
- Media library
- Grid preview
- Best time to post
- Link-in-bio page

The hard part: Platform API approval.

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: visual content calendar, 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

  • Visual content calendar
  • Media library
  • Grid preview
  • Best time to post
  • Link-in-bio page

The hard part

Platform API approval.

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

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