Comedy Cam
live comedy, in your home!

Development of a complex platform connecting individuals with comedians performing online live shows

Industry: Entertainement

Country: United states

Tags: custom CMS, ecommerce website, Stripe connect, exchange platform, service marketplace, video conferencing, Vonage, vue.js, Laravel, web application

Gather your friends, family, or coworkers for a custom virtual comedy show! Great for house parties, birthdays, graduations, company meetings, or just a fun night with some friends.
Comedy cam connects you with comedians all over the globe for live shows to enjoy from home with your favorite people. It also offers a new way for comedians to share their talent with the world and to generate a new source of revenue.

Challenges

01Deliver a videoconference tool that can be tailored to the specific needs of Comedy cam while being hosted on a server professionally managed for that purpose.
02 Develop a service marketplace that supports 3 types of users. Comedians can self-register on the platform and are available for booking after approval from the administrator. Audience can register, choose a comedian, and pay for the show on the platform. The administrator can manage comedians, payments and bookings.
03 Find an online payment gateway supplier that can handle the capture of the payment from the audience and that automatically transfers a part of it to the comedians booked while keeping the other part on Comedy cam’s account.

Benefits

01We customized the design and the functionalities of Vonage tool to provide a videoconferencing platform that is fully operational and adapted to Comedy Cam use.
02 The platform developed is fully customized and highly scalable. Using vue.js also helped in achieving a fast page load both on the front and the back end of the website.
03 The payment process works seamlessly. The connection with Stripe API is quite technical but if well implemented, it is very reliable.

Solutions

01We found a company that offers a video API created by developers for developers using WebRTC industry standard as a base and that provide a “pay as you go” pricing.
02 We chose to work using a combination of Laravel and vue.js framework to achieve the high level of customization required by the project as well as a smooth and fast browsing for users.
03 We decided to work with Stripe for everything related to payment. They have a solution called “Stripe connect” that is designed for marketplaces needs. They also offer a simple on boarding process for connected users.