Every screen is a line on the estimate
A website, a player, a paywall, a checkout, two phone apps and a TV channel — each one scoped separately, and each one a team to keep after launch.
07/ 08SEE IT END TO END
ON AIRLAUNCH A STREAMING SERVICE
Put your catalogue, your plans and your brand on the web, the phone and the TV — shaped in a Studio, not commissioned from a development team. Your audience never sees the name MediaCore2.
- Web, phone and TV from one Studio
- 9 colour slots · 4,610 phrases
- Your own Stripe, PayPal or Square
- QR sign-in on the TV
02/ 08YOUR WORLD TODAY
Renting puts their name on your screen
A hosted video app gets you live quickly, with somebody else’s logo on the sign-in page and somebody else’s rules about the subscribers you brought.
Billing is the part nobody scoped
Renewals, trials, declined cards and “how do I cancel?” all arrive after the budget does — and each one becomes a support ticket until somebody builds it.
Every change is a release
Renaming a section, adding a season or retiring a price means a developer, a deploy and another round of app-store review.
03/ 08WHAT CHANGES
- 01A development project before anyone can press play.A platform that exists on day one — the public site, the Studio, and the TV and mobile apps — shaped with settings, switches and your own catalogue.
- 02Somebody else’s logo on the player, the sign-in page and the loading screen.Dark and light logos, nine colour slots and every phrase on screen, on your own domain — in English, French or an Arabic that reads right to left end to end.
- 03A billing system to build before you can charge anyone.Rolling plans, season passes and free plans on your own merchant accounts. Plans renew on Stripe and Square, free trials run on Stripe, and PayPal takes one-time purchases.
- 04A TV app quoted separately, and a store resubmission for every change.Apps on Roku, Apple TV, Fire TV, Android TV, Samsung, LG, iOS and Android that pick up your palette, wording and modules each time they open — no resubmission.
- 05A viewer typing a password with a remote.A code on the TV, scanned with a phone that’s already signed in and approved in one tap — and a device limit per plan that pauses playback instead of locking anyone out.
04/ 08WHAT YOU SWITCH ON
Where a row is a feature switch, switching it off takes its public page, navigation link, Studio section and app tab away together — so launch day carries only what you’re ready to sell.
On-demandThe catalogue itself: a poster grid with search and categories, trailers, resume where they left off, My List and 12 recommendations on every watch page.
Shows & seriesSeasons and episodes with Up Next, and a Duplicate button that sets up next week’s episode from this week’s.
Subscriptions & plansPlans priced by the day, week, month or year, each with a device limit, an ads switch and an optional free trial on Stripe. Members cancel themselves.
TV & mobile appsRoku, Apple TV, Fire TV, Android TV, Samsung, LG, iOS and Android, with QR sign-in and the same access decision as the website.
White-label & brandingFive image slots, nine colour slots, dark and light mode, 4,610 editable phrases, and your logo on the picture if you want it there.
Home builderHero slides, content rows and pop-ups dragged into order, each able to retire itself on the date you set.
Live EventsPremieres and live specials sold by subscription, by ticket or both — with a replay that publishes itself when the broadcast ends.
PublishingLeave offEpisode notes and news behind the same plans as the video. Switch it on when somebody is ready to write them.
StoreLeave offMerchandise with guest checkout on the same site. Leave it off until there’s something to sell.
Live TV channelsLeave offA 24/7 channel looped from your back catalogue — for when the library is deep enough to fill one.
AdvertisingLeave offBreaks before, during and after the video and banners inside the player — none of them shown to members on a plan with ads switched off.
Reels add-onLeave offA vertical feed of short clips, unlocked with a code once the catalogue is running.
05/ 08LAUNCH, WEEK BY WEEK
An illustrative launch for an independent network with a film library, one returning series and a member list that lives in a spreadsheet. Every step below is something the network’s own team does in the Studio.
- Week 1 · Monday
A holding page on your domain
The platform is there before the brand is. The team switches Site Maintenance on, so visitors see a holding page with the network’s own title and message while the team keeps working in the Studio behind it.
- Week 1 · Wednesday
The brand, then the words
Dark and light logos, a favicon and two sign-in backgrounds fill the image slots, and the site repaints as the colours are picked — before anything is saved. In the phrase editor, “Events” becomes “Premieres”. Store and Radio are switched off and the team pages stay off, so none of them appear anywhere.
- Week 2 · Monday
The catalogue fills up
Films go in with posters, trailers, ratings and cast. The series goes in as a show with seasons, and every episode after the first starts as a Duplicate of the one before. Each title lands in its category, in the homepage rows set to pull it, and in the recommendation rail of related titles.
- Week 2 · Wednesday
Plans on your own accounts
The network’s Stripe account goes in on Sandbox, Test credentials confirms it, and it flips to Live. A monthly plan gets a seven-day free trial and a two-screen device limit; an annual plan switches ads off. PayPal is connected for one-time premiere tickets.
- Week 2 · Thursday
The existing members move in
The member spreadsheet goes in through Import on the Users screen: name and email, plus each member’s plan — matched by name to the plans built yesterday — and expiry date. New addresses become accounts, and every skipped row comes back with its line number and the reason.
- Week 2 · Friday
The front page and the team
A hero slide for the series, a row of new releases on auto and a row of the back catalogue, dragged into order and saved as they drop. The editor and the finance lead each get a role ticked from the permission matrix, and each sidebar shows only their own sections.
- Week 3 · Monday
The doors open
Site Maintenance comes off. An announcement to every viewer shows its recipient count before Send and goes out by inbox, email and phone push. That evening a new subscriber opens the app on her TV, scans the code with her phone and taps Approve — her trial is already there.
06/ 08THE NUMBERS THAT MATTER
0colour slots, repainting the site as you pick
4,610interface phrases you can rewrite
0feature switches — off means gone
120sQR sign-in code on the TV, approved from a phone
THE TALLY LIGHT IS RED
Watch a title go from upload to a subscriber’s TV on a call — branding, plans, the paywall and QR sign-in — with your own catalogue in mind.
A 30-minute walkthrough of the live product — no slides.