Build your own Temu with Claude Code

A discount shopping app: deal-heavy home feed, flash sales with countdowns, gamified coupons and more.

Big buildPayments, real-time, regulation or heavy infrastructure

The Claude Code prompt

Build my own take on Temu: a discount shopping app. Give it an original name, logo, colours and copy, and do not use Temu's name, branding or assets.

Version one should have:
- Deal-heavy home feed
- Flash sales with countdowns
- Gamified coupons
- Cart and checkout
- Order tracking

The hard part: Supply. Start with dropshipping or affiliate links.

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: deal-heavy home feed, 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

  • Deal-heavy home feed
  • Flash sales with countdowns
  • Gamified coupons
  • Cart and checkout
  • Order tracking

The hard part

Supply. Start with dropshipping or affiliate links.

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

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