Build your own Polymarket with Claude Code

A prediction market: markets on future events, buy yes or no shares, prices as probabilities and more.

Big buildPayments, real-time, regulation or heavy infrastructure

The Claude Code prompt

Build my own take on Polymarket: a prediction market. Give it an original name, logo, colours and copy, and do not use Polymarket's name, branding or assets.

Version one should have:
- Markets on future events
- Buy yes or no shares
- Prices as probabilities
- Resolution
- Portfolio

The hard part: Real-money betting is regulated. Build a play-money version.

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: markets on future events, 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

  • Markets on future events
  • Buy yes or no shares
  • Prices as probabilities
  • Resolution
  • Portfolio

The hard part

Real-money betting is regulated. Build a play-money version.

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

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