Build your own OpenTable with Claude Code

A restaurant table booking service: restaurant pages with available times, book a table for a party size, confirmation and reminders and more.

1–2 weeksMore screens, accounts and a backend

The Claude Code prompt

Build my own take on OpenTable: a restaurant table booking service. Give it an original name, logo, colours and copy, and do not use OpenTable's name, branding or assets.

Version one should have:
- Restaurant pages with available times
- Book a table for a party size
- Confirmation and reminders
- Restaurant dashboard for covers
- Reviews

The hard part: Table inventory per time slot. Model tables and turn times, not just slots.

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: restaurant pages with available times, 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

  • Restaurant pages with available times
  • Book a table for a party size
  • Confirmation and reminders
  • Restaurant dashboard for covers
  • Reviews

The hard part

Table inventory per time slot. Model tables and turn times, not just slots.

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

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