How a YouTuber Built an AI Music Website in Just 7 Days
Hi, I’m a YouTuber living in San Francisco. I make videos about my daily life, adventures, and little stories from city life. Over time, one recurring problem kept bothering me: finding music for my videos. Music isn’t just background—it shapes the mood, gives energy to montages, and makes emotional moments land. But the struggle of finding tracks that fit my videos and are legal to use felt endless.
I tried everything: free music libraries, cutting and looping tracks, even mixing multiple pieces together. Most of the time, it didn’t work. I would spend hours tweaking music that still didn’t feel right. That’s when I realized: maybe the solution is to make my own music.
The Spark of an Idea
Here’s the catch—I knew nothing about coding or music production. I couldn’t write apps, design interfaces, or produce music. Hiring someone for every video was out of the question. But I had a crazy thought: what if I could build a website that lets me type in a mood or a scene and instantly generate music that fits?
I knew it sounded impossible, especially since I had no technical background. But I decided to try anyway. I gave myself a goal: 7 days to create a working website.
Finding My Tools
I had to learn fast, and I needed help. That’s when I discovered Cursor, an AI coding assistant. For someone who had never built a web app before, it was like having a mentor guiding me through every step. Cursor suggested code snippets, helped me debug issues, and explained things I didn’t understand.
I chose Next.js as my framework because it’s modern, flexible, and makes building interactive websites easier for beginners. Combined with Cursor, I could focus on building features instead of getting lost in setup details.
Learning By Doing
The first day was intense. I had to learn HTML, CSS, JavaScript basics, and how web servers work. I often felt overwhelmed. But I tackled one problem at a time. Each small task I completed—like getting a button to respond or displaying a track—felt like a victory.
By day three, I was generating simple music tracks and displaying them on a webpage. They weren’t perfect, but they worked. I learned to break big problems into small steps, iterate quickly, and not be afraid to fail. Every bug I fixed made me feel more capable, more confident.
Going Live
By day six, the core of the website was ready. I bought the domain trymusic.ai and deployed the site using Vercel, which made going live surprisingly smooth. Clicking the URL and hearing my first playable track online was surreal. Just a week ago, I didn’t know how to write a single line of code.
Reflections on the Journey
In seven days, I went from zero experience to a working AI music website. I learned coding, deployment, debugging, and even some basics of music generation. More importantly, I learned how to learn under pressure, how to break impossible tasks into manageable pieces, and how to turn frustration into creation.
Trymusic started as a personal solution for my YouTube videos, but now it can help other creators who face the same problem: finding music that fits. For me, this project wasn’t just about building a website—it was about proving to myself that even a total beginner can achieve something significant in a short time.
Lessons Learned
If there’s one takeaway from this journey, it’s that tools and determination can make seemingly impossible things possible. Using Cursor, learning Next.js on the fly, and dedicating focused time for seven days allowed me to go from idea to launch. And if I, a daily-life vlogging YouTuber with no prior coding experience, can build a functional website in a week, I hope it inspires others to try, fail, learn, and build.