Create a Movie streaming app?

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As a startup founder, I want to build a movie streaming app that supports live premieres, user reviews, and multiple monetization options like subscriptions and pay-per-view. How should I approach the development process, and what platforms or technologies should I consider?

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Hey Emiley, Bubble + Mux + Stripe

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For a streaming MVP, the easiest and fastest approach is to use Bubble for the app itself and pair it with a proper video platform like Mux or AWS IVS for the actual streaming. Bubble can handle all your flows, user accounts, reviews, subscriptions, and pay-per-view access, while the video provider takes care of secure hosting and live premieres. Stripe plugs in for payments.

I haven’t built a full Netflix-style app before, but I have built multiple SaaS MVPs with gated content, subscription billing, and pay-per-use workflows, which is basically the same structure we’d use here, just with a streaming engine added.

If you want help, I can map out the exact stack for you and build the MVP so you can test the idea quickly without a heavy engineering setup.

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for a Bubble build, keep the mvp tight: live premieres, normal video playback, reviews, and one payment flow. the heavy lifting (live streams, encoding, storage) shouldn’t be done inside Bubble — use mux for that, then just pull the playable urls into your Bubble app.

Bubble handles the rest: user accounts, subscriptions/pay-per-view with Stripe, reviews, and access control. your workflows just check “has this user purchased access?” and then show the player with the mux url. for live premieres, mux gives you a live stream id you embed the same way.

you can get a working version pretty fast as long as video processing stays outside Bubble. if you want, I can outline the exact Bubble setup for mux + stripe + access rules.

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And there are youtube video or udemy courses that you can use as a guide to setup your own

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Build a tight MVP (live premieres, on-demand playback, reviews, subscriptions & PPV). To go live fastest, consider a white-label OTT like VPlayed (handles hosting, monetization models, DRM and multi-device apps).

If you need more control later, move to a custom stack using a live media engine (Wowza / Mux / AWS IVS), a CDN, a DRM-capable player (Bitmovin or similar), and Stripe for payments, add review moderation, analytics, and entitlement checks server-side as you scale.