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Case study · Membership platform with courses, mentorship, community and split payments

Holistic Music Academy

An online academy where producers and DJs learn, get feedback on their tracks and book mentors, with every sale split automatically between the people who earned it.

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Holistic Music Academy: Membership platform with courses, mentorship, community and split payments
The live site as it looks today.
Client
Holistic Music Academy
Type
Membership platform, courses, mentorship marketplace
Stack
Next.js 14, Prisma and Postgres, Stripe Connect, transactional email, PM2 on a server the school controls
Status
Live, taking members and workshop bookings
Where
holisticmusicacademy.com, students and mentors worldwide

The brief

A founder with a real teaching community and a prototype that could not take money safely, verify members, or pay mentors their share without a spreadsheet.

The platform had to feel like a haven, not a SaaS dashboard: a place for artists who are done collecting unfinished loops.

What shipped

  • The Grove: a members' home with courses, a library, a journal and a treasure chest of resources
  • 1-on-1 mentorship and three-hour training tracks, bookable and paid on the site
  • A community where members share tracks and get feedback, plus a gig board and an artist directory
  • Stripe Connect: one checkout, with each sale split automatically between the academy, the mentor and the platform
  • Sign-in with email verification, password reset, and Google sign-in ready to switch on
  • A workshop page and payment links the founder can edit without a developer

How it was built

The payment plumbing was consolidated onto one Stripe account so webhooks, payouts and reporting all agree; stale endpoints on an older account were retired rather than patched.

Mail went down twice on an upstream password change; each time the fix shipped the same day with the test logged, and a purge job now clears signups that never verify.

Revenue sharing is a rule in code, not a monthly chore: the split runs on every webhook and the ledger shows who earned what.

Where it stands

  • Members can join, learn, book a mentor and pay in one place
  • Every sale is split and paid out automatically
  • The founder runs the school from the site itself, including workshop offers and prices

One lesson

A marketplace lives or dies on the money path. Get checkout, verification and payouts right first; the beautiful parts are only trusted once those are boring.

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