Content curation platform with Stripe-powered subscriptions

Overview

Curated is an internal product experiment built to validate a simple premise: people want someone else to find the best content so they don’t have to. The platform surfaces daily curated reads across topics, delivered through a clean interface. Beyond the content itself, the project was a technical proof-of-concept for a complete subscription commerce stack.

The Challenge

The goal was to ship a fully functional subscription product — with authentication, payment processing, and a smooth onboarding loop — quickly enough to test the concept before committing to a full build. Every technical decision had to favor speed and correctness over premature optimization.

What We Built

A complete subscription platform built on modern web infrastructure, with authentication and payment flows integrated end-to-end.

• Google OAuth authentication — frictionless sign-in that removes the password barrier from the onboarding funnel
• Stripe subscription flow — full billing integration with plan selection, payment collection, and subscription management
• Daily content feed — curated article and link discovery experience organized for daily consumption
• Onboarding experience — clear value proposition and minimal steps from landing to subscribed

Key Features

• Stripe integration — full subscription lifecycle: plan selection, checkout, payment confirmation, and billing management
• Google OAuth — one-click authentication with no password to remember or reset
• Clean content UI — distraction-free reading interface designed to surface the most interesting daily content
• Conversion-focused onboarding — value-first flow that explains the product before asking for payment

Result

Curated validated the technical architecture for a subscription content product in a short development cycle. The Stripe + Google OAuth combination proved to be a low-friction stack for rapid subscriber acquisition, and the patterns developed here have since been applied to other client payment integration projects.