Community & Commerce Platform

The question

“What if the feed, the courses, and the store were one thing?”

The problem

Running a community across a social tool, a course platform, and a store means three subscriptions, three logins, and members falling through the cracks between them.

The build

One platform: a social feed, spaces, courses, memberships, and a storefront sharing one identity and one database — so a member’s whole journey lives in one place.

The imagination

Nobody asked for gatherings. The feed was working — but a community that only lives on a screen is still a screen. So the platform grew gatherings: private, invite-only meetup pages with a shared calendar, polls, reminders, and messaging — for the real-world things members actually do together.

• Third Thursday dinner party
• Weekly beach volleyball
• Nature hikes

On screen

What ran

• Members posting, learning, and buying daily
• Courses and memberships with recurring billing
• Integrated storefront on the same accounts

Stack

Next.js · TypeScript · Postgres · Stripe · Realtime feeds