A go-to-market engine for founders, from first cohort to recurring revenue.
A go-to-market platform for founders, workshops, product-market fit labs & playbooks.
A founder-education startup needed to host gated workshop content, run cohort-based programs, handle Stripe subscriptions with lifecycle states, and serve large video assets to paying members only, all without burning cash on a custom build.
Architected the full backend schema and REST API on top of Directus. Shipped Stripe subscriptions with trial, active, past-due, and cancelled lifecycle handling. Implemented a dual-mode CloudFront layer: signed URLs for paid content, public delivery for marketing pages. Wired Google Calendar auto-invites on event registration.
StartStak went live with a full founder membership product, events, content, and billing, without a single in-house backend engineer on their side.