BaddieVids — A full creator-subscription platform, built from the ground up.

At a glance

What it is: Subscription platform
Built for: Creator economy
Status: Live · baddievids.vip
Built with: Laravel · MySQL · Redis · Cloudflare Stream · Encrypted HLS · Railway
The brief: A subscription platform has to do everything a social network does, plus take money safely, protect paid content and keep regulators happy. BaddieVids is the full stack: creators upload once and sell on the wall, in messages, on a live stream or as a one-off unlock, while fans pay by card or from a wallet. Every piece of paid video is encrypted so it cannot be lifted and reposted.

What it does

Encrypted video. Every paid video is streamed as encrypted HLS with per-viewer keys, so a subscriber can watch but cannot download or share the file.
Live streams and private 1-on-1. Creators go live to all subscribers or run a private paid show for one fan, with tips landing in real time.
Paid messaging. Direct messages with locked photos and videos the fan unlocks in-chat, plus tips inside the conversation.
Wallet, tips and pay-per-view. Card billing through a card processor, a top-up wallet, one-off unlocks and tipping — all reconciled in the admin.
ID-verified creators. Automated identity checks before a creator can earn, with the documents stored for compliance.
Admin back-office. Payouts, failed-payment records, content review, broadcasts, page editing and language management from one panel.

How it works

Creator signs upIdentity is checked automatically before anything can be sold.
Content goes in the vaultUpload once. Post it to the wall, lock it in a message, or sell it as a one-off unlock.
Fans join freeBrowse by niche, follow, then subscribe or pay per item.
Money movesCard billing or wallet balance for subscriptions, unlocks, tips and private lives.
Admin sees everythingPayments, failures, content review, payouts and broadcasts from one panel.

Screens

Video

Four launch reels, cut for Instagram and TikTok: bold, pay once, tip and spoil, your page.

baddievids.vip

The blog — guides for creators, written for the brand and its niches.

Baddie List — gifts fans send to creators, fulfilled through the platform.

The hard parts

What was difficult, and what we did about it.

Paid video that cannot be ripped

Every video is transcoded to encrypted HLS. Keys are served per request with the same access rules as the feed, and iPhone Safari gets a playlist proxy that carries the key auth it would otherwise drop.

Declined cards left no trace

A failed-payments record and admin page, fed by the card processor's webhooks, so support can see exactly why a payment bounced and reply with the real reason.

Launching a second brand

The platform was built so a whole new brand could be stood up from the same engine — new name, colours, niches, languages and legal pages, on its own database and hosting — in days rather than months.