Now the cat is out of the bag

Just soft launched my company's first client into production yesterday, and they made the announcement today, so I'm in the clear to talk about it.

I've been working with Pearl Davis on her new members' site, https://theaudacitynetwork.com

which includes the following features:

If anyone is interested in starting a project, I'm all ears.

Media Foundry - Features

Authentication & Session Management

Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) — Secondary verification step on login

Email Verification — Token-based account activation link sent on signup

Forgot Username — Recovery email with username reminder

Forgot Password / Reset Password — Time-limited reset token via email

Account Masquerade — Admins can impersonate any user for support/debugging

Account Lockout — Automatic lock after repeated failed login attempts

Session Invalidation — Force-expire all active sessions for a user

User Management

Signup (Public) — Self-service registration with email required, username availability check, and email verification

Admin User Create — Admin-only creation flow bypassing verification

Bulk CSV Import — Upload a CSV to create or update multiple users at once

User Export — Download user records with filtering

Profile View & Edit — Users manage their own name, email, address, phone, DOB, occupation, political party, avatar

Admin Profile Edit — Admins edit any user's profile, roles, entitlements, and dashboard path

Role Assignment — Assign one or more roles to a user, driving all access control

Entitlement Assignment — Grant direct content access entitlements independent of roles

Username Availability Check — Real-time availability check on the signup form

Password Change — Change password from profile edit page with strength indicator

Data Erasure Requests (GDPR) — Users request deletion; admins process and confirm

Email Unsubscribe (RFC 8058) — One-click unsubscribe via List-Unsubscribe header

Notification Preferences — Per-user toggles for email notifications, system alerts, milestone alerts, etc.

Profile Visibility Controls — Toggle public profile, online status display, tagging permission

Roles, Permissions & Access Control

Role CRUD — Create, read, update, delete named roles with display names

Permission CRUD — Create, read, update, delete granular permissions

Route Permissions — Map specific HTTP method + path pairs to required roles/permissions

RBAC Middleware — Every API route and frontend page enforces role-based access

Entitlements — Fine-grained content access grants (separate from roles)

Role/Permission/Route-Permission Export & Import — Snapshot and restore via JSON

Membership & Billing

Membership Packages — Define tiers (name, price, duration, feature list, badge)

Membership Enrollment — Track which users are enrolled in which package

Stripe Payment Processing — Accept credit/debit card payments

Payment Intents — Create Stripe PaymentIntents for one-time charges

Setup Intents — Save card on file for future billing

Webhook Processing — Handle Stripe events (charge succeeded, disputes, etc.)

Donation Processing — Accept one-time donations via the signup/donate form

Transaction Ledger — Append-only record of every payment and donation

Invoice/Receipt Email — Send donation receipts to donors via SES

Manual Billing Trigger — Admin can manually initiate a billing cycle for a user

Billing History View — Per-user billing and donation history

Video

Video Upload — Upload MP4 files directly or via pre-signed S3 URL

HLS Conversion — Convert uploaded video to adaptive-bitrate HLS for streaming

Cloudflare Stream Integration — Offload conversion to Cloudflare Stream

Bulk HLS Conversion — Batch-convert multiple videos in one operation

Video Watch Page — Authenticated video playback with HLS.js

Video Download — Permissioned download link generation

Video Clips — Extract and publish short clips from full-length videos

Video Entitlements — Restrict playback by role or entitlement

Video Watch Progress Tracking — Track per-user watch progress

Comment Gating — Only verified users can comment; unverified users see a prompt

Video Metadata CRUD — Title, description, tags, thumbnail, series, status

Video Status Workflow — Draft → Published → Unpublished

Server-Side video insertion — Automatically insert curated advertisements in live video

Automated video publishing to major video platforms (Youtube, Patreon, Rumble)

Images

Image Upload — Upload images with progress tracking

Interactive Crop Tool — Browser-based crop before saving

Auto Renditions — Generate thumbnails and variant sizes on upload

Image Metadata CRUD — Title, alt text, tags, status

Manifest Import/Export — Bulk import/export image records

Playlists

Playlist CRUD — Create, order, and delete playlists

Playlist Streaming — Stream playlist content in sequence

Video Ordering — Reorder videos within a playlist

Shows & Series

Series CRUD — Create and manage TV-style series

Series Scheduling — Set airing schedule and time slots

Series Tags — Tag series for discovery and filtering

Series Entitlements — Restrict access by role

Show Admin Panel — Admin dashboard for all shows management

Blog

Blog Post CRUD — Create, edit, publish, unpublish posts

Blog Versioning — Save draft versions before publishing

Blog Sections — Group posts into sections/categories

Public Blog Index & Post View — Reader-facing browsing and reading UI

Page Builder & Custom Pages

Drag-and-Drop Page Builder — Compose pages from reusable components

Dynamic Page Routing — Wildcard routing so any slug can serve a custom page

ETag Page Caching — HTTP-level caching for built pages

Component CRUD — Create, edit, preview, clone, delete reusable components

Component Catalog — Browse all available component types and templates

Component Export/Import — Move component definitions between environments

Campaigns

Campaign CRUD — Create and manage marketing campaigns

Campaign Analytics — Performance metrics per campaign

Donor Campaign Tracking — Associate donations with specific campaigns

Automated publishing to Social Media — Publish blog/vlog content to social media platforms automatically.

Projects

Project CRUD — Create project showcases with grid or list layout

Project Detail Pages — Public-facing project pages

Project Comments — Users comment on projects; admins moderate

Email System

Email Template CRUD — Create and manage rich HTML email templates

Template Cloning — Duplicate templates as a starting point

Immediate Send — Trigger a bulk email send immediately

Scheduled Send — Schedule bulk email for a future datetime; background poller delivers it

Recipient Roles — Target All / Free / Paid / Donors or any role combination

Send History — Audit trail of every bulk email job and its status

AWS SES Delivery — All transactional and bulk email delivered via Amazon SES

Dev/Test Mode — Test email rendering in non-production environments

Notifications

Notification Feed — Real-time per-user notification stream

Notification Templates — Define reusable notification content

Notification Dispatch — Send notifications to individual users or groups

Read/Unread Status — Mark notifications read; display unread badge count

System Events & Automation

System Event CRUD — Define named events that fire on route calls

Route-Event Mapping — Map any API route to one or more system events

Event Actions — When an event fires, automatically send emails or notifications

Export/Import — Snapshot and restore event configurations

Discord Integration

Bot Authorization (OAuth) — Authorize the Discord bot for a guild

Message Syncing — Background poller pulls Discord messages into the DB

Message Display — Show synced Discord messages on the site

User Account Linking — Link site users to their Discord identities

Calendar

Calendar CRUD — Create and manage events

Public Calendar Page — Browse upcoming events

Admin Calendar Management — Full admin control of calendar entries

Careers / Jobs

Career Listing CRUD — Post and manage job openings

Public Job Board — Visitors browse open positions

Career Embed Widget — Embed the job board on external pages

Analytics & Reporting

Event Tracking — Capture user interaction events (clicks, watches, signups)

Background Analytics Processor — 30-second polling loop that aggregates raw events into metrics

Engagement Metrics — Derived metrics from raw event data

Reports CRUD — Build custom bar and stacked-bar chart reports

Statistics — Define and display key statistics publicly or internally

Marketing Overview — Dashboard with membership, donation, and email metrics

Audit Log — Immutable record of all administrative actions

Media Library

Unified Media Dashboard — Browse and manage all videos and images in one place

Upload Interface — Single upload UI for both video and images

Conversion Monitoring — Track status of HLS conversion jobs

S3 Asset Proxy — Serve S3-hosted media with proper cache headers