Build your own Midjourney with Claude Code

An AI image generator: prompt box with style options, grid of results with upscale and variations, gallery of your images and more.

WeekendA working first version in a day or two

The Claude Code prompt

Build my own take on Midjourney: an AI image generator. Give it an original name, logo, colours and copy, and do not use Midjourney's name, branding or assets.

Version one should have:
- Prompt box with style options
- Grid of results with upscale and variations
- Gallery of your images
- Public explore feed
- Credits

The hard part: Cost per image. Use an image model API and meter usage with credits.

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: prompt box with style options, 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

  • Prompt box with style options
  • Grid of results with upscale and variations
  • Gallery of your images
  • Public explore feed
  • Credits

The hard part

Cost per image. Use an image model API and meter usage with credits.

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

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