Subscriptions, paid content, and livestreams for creators
Follwr lets creators sell subscriptions, posts, and livestreams. I built the website, admin tools, agency portal, and backend.
Designment handled the design and I was the sole developer. Much of the work involved payments, video processing, and making sure customers could access what they had paid for.
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Creator and admin tools
Creators can charge for subscriptions, posts, messages, downloads, and livestreams. They can also manage pricing, send welcome messages, track sales, and withdraw earnings through Stripe.
I built an admin panel for support, content management, and payment verification. Agencies have a separate portal to track the creators they refer and the commission they earn.
Paid files are stored privately and only served to customers with access. Videos are compressed with ffmpeg and capped at 1080p; 4K uploads became about 80% smaller. Caching reduced profile LCP, a measure of loading speed, from 3.2 seconds to 0.4 seconds.
Payments and refunds
I used Stripe Connect for payments and creator payouts. The system checks for duplicate charges and purchases, supports additional card verification, and holds earnings until creators finish verification.
Refunds and disputes remove access to the affected posts, downloads, and messages. Customers can buy the content again later.
Stripe webhooks update payment records as events arrive. A separate job checks the records against Stripe every six hours and when the service starts, recovering changes that webhooks missed. The first run corrected several months of missed subscription updates.
