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Subscription content platform

A subscription product for creators that handles paywalls, trials, video, audio, and email — without losing 12% of revenue to a generic platform fee.

The Problem

Creators monetise on platforms that take 12–30% in fees, ban niches at will, and own the audience email list. They want their own house — but building one from scratch is expensive.

The Approach
  1. 01

    Built the core: paywalled mixed-media posts, trials, gifting, comp access, native email digests — one platform, not five integrations.

  2. 02

    Wired Stripe for billing and Cloudflare Stream for video, so the marginal cost per subscriber is genuinely low.

  3. 03

    Designed search and discovery within the creator's own catalogue — readers find more, churn less.

  4. 04

    Implemented per-post analytics that the creator actually understands: read-through, paid conversions, churn signal.

  5. 05

    Built an email layer that's owned, not rented — creator keeps the list when they leave the platform.

If the platform owns the audience and takes the rate, the platform is the business.

The Outcome
  • Creator keeps 95%+ of revenue instead of 70%.

  • Audience email list is portable, owned by the creator.

  • Discovery within back catalogue raises lifetime value.

  • Niches stop being deplatformed at random.

≈ -90%
Platform take rate
Creator
Email list ownership
Built-in
Back-catalogue discovery
Plain English
Per-post analytics
Stack
Next.jsStripeCloudflare StreamPostgreSQLAlgolia

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