Are you thinking about building and monetizing a creator platform? Stripe Connect can make it easy to get started. In this video, we'll show you how to use Stripe Connect to onboard creators, accept payments, and distribute payouts.
In this episode you'll learn how to approach building and monetizing a creator platform using Stripe Connect and Ruby and Rails. In this series we'll be using a newsletter platform as the example, but the approach applies equally well to other creator platforms.
This platform allows creators to produce creative content (e.g., a newsletter), publish their content, and monetize their content with paid subscriptions.
This is episode 01 in the series. Stay tuned and subscribe for updates throughout the summer. We'll cover all the ins and outs of Stripe Connect, how you need to model and store things in your database, how to handle authentication, how to process web hooks and post-payment events in your Stripe account, how to onboard creators, how to use Stripe Checkout on the front end to securely accept payment, how to setup the Stripe Customer Portal to allow subscribers to manage their payments and subscriptions.
### Table of contents
00:00 Introduction
01:17 Domain model
04:46 Platform features
07:05 Conclusion
### Presenter
CJ Avilla - Software Engineer - https://twitter.com/cjav_dev
