Your Patreon Fee Just Cost You $14,400 This Year
If you're a creator pulling $10k/month through Patreon, you've already paid enough in platform fees to build your own membership site.
Custom membership platforms for creators, educators, and communities monetizing access. Gated content with tiered subscriptions, community forums, course delivery, Stripe Billing integration, and member management dashboards. Built to replace Patreon, Teachable, and Circle with a platform you own -- higher margins, full data ownership, and your brand front and center.
Your subscriber hits checkout, and instead of Patreon's interface, they see your brand. Your platform ships with tiered access controls, drip scheduling, and a searchable content library that keeps your members engaged past month three. You control the data -- emails, engagement patterns, churn signals -- not a third party. Your revenue flows through Stripe directly, no 8% haircut. Your community forum lives on the same domain as your courses, so members stop juggling logins. When a new feature request arrives, your dev team builds it in days, not years of waiting for Patreon's roadmap. But here's the trade: you own the uptime, the security patches, the mobile experience. If your platform stalls during launch week, you lose trust and trial conversions. That's why your membership site needs architecture that scales from 50 to 5,000 members without breaking.
What is holding your current website back?
Common gaps we find in nearly every audit.
What Your Website Could Look Like
Custom-designed for your industry. No templates. No stock photos.
How We Build This Right
Every safeguard, built in from Day 1.
Tiered Subscription System
Stripe Billing-powered tiers with free trials, coupon codes, proration, failed payment recovery, and self-service member portal for billing management.
Gated Content Delivery
Role-based access control unlocking specific content, features, and community areas per membership tier. Content gates enforced at the server level, not client-side.
Community Forums
Threaded discussions with topic categories, member profiles, moderation tools, notifications, rich media posting, and tier-based access to exclusive areas.
Course Delivery System
Video hosting via Mux, lesson progress tracking, quizzes, completion certificates, drip content scheduling, and course-specific landing pages for SEO.
Live Events & Recordings
Event registration, calendar sync, Zoom or Google Meet integration, tier-based access, and automatic recording publication to the member content library.
Revenue Analytics Dashboard
MRR tracking, churn rate, lifetime value, tier distribution, payment failure rates, and member growth charts for data-driven membership optimization.
What We Build
Purpose-built features for your industry.
Patreon skims 8–12% of your monthly recurring revenue plus processing fees
Guided setup flow with profile completion and content recommendations cuts new member churn by 40%
Your members bounce between Patreon for content, Discord for chat, and email for announcements
Searchable archive with tags and bookmarks keeps members engaged with back catalog instead of scrolling chronologically
Your membership page looks identical to 200,000 other creator pages with no brand differentiation
Drip scheduling releases lesson two on day seven so new members don't abandon after overwhelm
Platform owns your subscriber data and can change terms or raise fees without warning
Member directory with bios and interests builds network effects that increase retention past six months
You're paying Circle for community and Teachable for courses while members juggle separate logins
Custom referral links track invites and auto-deliver rewards through Stripe without manual payout work
Your best tutorials are invisible to Google because platform content isn't indexed for discovery
Progressive web app delivers offline access and push notifications without App Store fees or review delays
Built on a Modern, Secure Stack
Our Development Process
From discovery to launch. Quality at every step.
Membership Strategy Discovery
Week 1-2We audit your current membership model, content library, community needs, and revenue goals. Define tier structure, features per tier, and migration plan from existing platforms.
Platform Architecture & Design
Week 3-4Design the member experience — content library, forums, course pages, and dashboards. Stripe Billing configuration and content gating architecture.
Build & Integration
Week 5-9Custom frontend with Supabase auth and RLS for content gating, Stripe Billing for subscriptions, Mux for video hosting, and forum functionality.
Testing & Migration
Week 10-11End-to-end subscription flow testing, content gating verification, forum functionality, and member data migration from existing platforms if applicable.
Launch + 30 Days Support
Week 12-14Go live with member migration support, Stripe webhook monitoring, community moderation setup, and post-launch retention optimization.
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