Build your own Vocaloid music player with Claude Code
He is building a Vocaloid music player with Claude Code, starting from another of his own apps. It worked on day one. The one thing he decided himself was swapping the colors to Miku teal.
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piro0919 on Hacker News · 2026-10-20
Written in our own words. Credit to the original author. Link checked 2026-10-23.
What they did
He is building a Vocaloid music player with Claude Code, starting from another of his own apps. It worked on day one. The one thing he decided himself was swapping the colors to Miku teal.
Result (as claimed)
A personal music player working on day one.
Tools they used
Cost: Claude Code: from $17/mo.
Set it up
Write a one-page brief
Describe the app in plain words: who it is for, the 3 core screens or actions, and what "done" looks like.
Start the project with your agent
Open Claude Code and paste the brief. Ask it to propose a stack and a file plan before writing code.
Build one slice at a time
Ship the smallest working flow first, run it, then add features one by one. Commit after each working step.
Test it like a user
Click through on desktop and phone. Ask the agent to add basic tests and fix anything that breaks.
Check security and ship
Keep keys in environment variables, check auth and database rules, then deploy and share the link.
Copy the full setup prompt
Paste into your agent and it will walk you through the setup, asking before anything that sends, posts or spends.
You are helping me set up this AI use case end to end in Claude Code. Goal: Build your own Vocaloid music player with Claude Code What the original author did: He is building a Vocaloid music player with Claude Code, starting from another of his own apps. It worked on day one. The one thing he decided himself was swapping the colors to Miku teal. Reported result (as claimed by the author): A personal music player working on day one. Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50161939 Tools they used: Claude Code Category: Vibe coding & apps Please: 1. Ask me 3 short questions about my situation (accounts I have, budget, what I want the output to look like). 2. Propose a step-by-step plan using these tools or cheaper alternatives, with the time and cost of each step. Use official pricing pages; say "check pricing" if unsure. 3. Then do the setup with me one step at a time, waiting for my OK before anything that sends messages, posts publicly, spends money or deletes data. 4. Finish with a checklist to run it again next time.
You are helping me set up this AI use case end to end in Codex. Goal: Build your own Vocaloid music player with Claude Code What the original author did: He is building a Vocaloid music player with Claude Code, starting from another of his own apps. It worked on day one. The one thing he decided himself was swapping the colors to Miku teal. Reported result (as claimed by the author): A personal music player working on day one. Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50161939 Tools they used: Claude Code Category: Vibe coding & apps Please: 1. Ask me 3 short questions about my situation (accounts I have, budget, what I want the output to look like). 2. Propose a step-by-step plan using these tools or cheaper alternatives, with the time and cost of each step. Use official pricing pages; say "check pricing" if unsure. 3. Then do the setup with me one step at a time, waiting for my OK before anything that sends messages, posts publicly, spends money or deletes data. 4. Finish with a checklist to run it again next time.
You are helping me set up this AI use case end to end in Grok Bot. Goal: Build your own Vocaloid music player with Claude Code What the original author did: He is building a Vocaloid music player with Claude Code, starting from another of his own apps. It worked on day one. The one thing he decided himself was swapping the colors to Miku teal. Reported result (as claimed by the author): A personal music player working on day one. Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50161939 Tools they used: Claude Code Category: Vibe coding & apps Please: 1. Ask me 3 short questions about my situation (accounts I have, budget, what I want the output to look like). 2. Propose a step-by-step plan using these tools or cheaper alternatives, with the time and cost of each step. Use official pricing pages; say "check pricing" if unsure. 3. Then do the setup with me one step at a time, waiting for my OK before anything that sends messages, posts publicly, spends money or deletes data. 4. Finish with a checklist to run it again next time.
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