Build your own Pixieset with Claude Code
Client photo galleries for photographers: upload galleries, client proofing and favourites, downloads and more.
The Claude Code prompt
Build my own take on Pixieset: client photo galleries for photographers. Give it an original name, logo, colours and copy, and do not use Pixieset's name, branding or assets. Version one should have: - Upload galleries - Client proofing and favourites - Downloads - Print store - Website The hard part: Large image storage. Use S3 and an image CDN. 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: upload galleries, 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
- Upload galleries
- Client proofing and favourites
- Downloads
- Print store
- Website
The hard part
Large image storage. Use S3 and an image CDN.
Make it yours: a niche Pixieset ignores, an original name and brand, and one feature it does badly done well.
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