Build your own SoundCloud with Claude Code

An audio sharing platform for artists: upload tracks, waveform player with timed comments, follow artists and more.

1–2 weeksMore screens, accounts and a backend

The Claude Code prompt

Build my own take on SoundCloud: an audio sharing platform for artists. Give it an original name, logo, colours and copy, and do not use SoundCloud's name, branding or assets.

Version one should have:
- Upload tracks
- Waveform player with timed comments
- Follow artists
- Reposts
- Playlists

The hard part: Waveforms. Generate them on upload with audiowaveform.

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 tracks, 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 tracks
  • Waveform player with timed comments
  • Follow artists
  • Reposts
  • Playlists

The hard part

Waveforms. Generate them on upload with audiowaveform.

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

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