CreatorBridge

Match creators with clients and get projects paid smoothly.

CreatorBridge is a two-sided marketplace for connecting creators with clients, managing discovery, onboarding, payments, and reviews in one place. It helps clients hire confidently and helps creators win work, get paid on time, and build reputation through a streamlined workflow built on Next.js, Supabase, and Stripe.

Business Goals

  • Reach 1,000 registered creators and 300 active clients within 6 months of launch.
  • Achieve a 20% client-to-booking conversion rate by month 4.
  • Process $150,000 in GMV within the first 12 months.
  • Maintain at least 40% 90-day creator retention and 35% client repeat booking rate.
  • Keep payment dispute rate below 2% of completed transactions.

User Goals

  • Help clients find and hire a creator in under 10 minutes.
  • Help creators complete profile setup and become searchable in under 15 minutes.
  • Enable secure milestone or full upfront payments with automatic receipts.
  • Provide a simple rating and review flow after project completion.
  • Reduce back-and-forth by centralizing messaging, scope, and payment status.

Non-Goals

  • No native mobile app in the first release; responsive web only.
  • No complex agency resource planning or team staffing tools.
  • No off-platform invoicing, tax filing, or accounting automation beyond receipts and payout records.
  • No open-ended social network features like feeds, comments, or creator content publishing.

Creator Maya, 29 - A freelance motion designer who wants a steady stream of clients without chasing payments. She needs a polished profile, proof of work, and a fast way to get discovered.

Creator Maya, 29

  • As a creator, I want to build a profile with portfolio samples and service pricing, so that clients can evaluate me quickly.
  • As a creator, I want to receive project requests and payment updates in one place, so that I do not have to manage communication across multiple tools.
  • As a creator, I want to collect ratings and reviews after each project, so that I can build trust and win higher-value work.

Client Jordan, 41 - A marketing manager who needs reliable creators for campaigns with clear deliverables and budgets. He wants confidence in quality and a low-friction hiring process.

Client Jordan, 41

  • As a client, I want to search and filter creators by skill, budget, and availability, so that I can find the right fit quickly.
  • As a client, I want to pay securely through escrow-like milestone flows, so that I only release money when work is delivered.
  • As a client, I want to review creator ratings and past work, so that I can make hiring decisions with less risk.

Marketplace Admin Leila, 35 - An operator responsible for quality, trust, and marketplace health. She needs moderation tools, payout visibility, and metrics to manage the platform.

Marketplace Admin Leila, 35

  • As an admin, I want to review flagged profiles and disputes, so that I can keep the marketplace trustworthy.
  • As an admin, I want to track conversion, GMV, and payout issues, so that I can identify growth bottlenecks.
  • As an admin, I want to manage featured creators and category curation, so that I can improve match quality.

Creator Onboarding and Profiles · High priority

  • Creators must be able to create professional profiles that are discoverable and conversion-friendly.
  • Support email and OAuth signup, followed by profile completion wizard.
  • Allow service categories, hourly or fixed pricing, location/remote preference, bio, skills, availability, and portfolio uploads.
  • Show profile completion progress and block marketplace search visibility until minimum required fields are complete.
  • Validate portfolio file types and size limits; reject unsupported uploads with clear error messages.
  • Enable creators to edit profile data and preview their public profile before publishing.

Client Discovery and Matching · High priority

  • Clients need a simple way to find creators that fit project requirements and budget constraints.
  • Provide search by category, skill, budget range, availability, rating, and location or remote.
  • Include sortable creator cards with rating, response time, starting price, and featured badges.
  • Support saved searches and shortlist/favorites for comparison.
  • Handle no-result states with recommended filters and similar creators.
  • Allow clients to send project briefs directly from a creator profile or from a discovery page.

Projects and Messaging · High priority

  • The platform must support structured project setup and basic communication between both sides.
  • Create a project record from a brief, selected creator, or invite flow.
  • Support threaded messaging with attachments, timestamps, and unread counts.
  • Allow project status changes such as draft, pending acceptance, active, delivered, completed, and disputed.
  • Validate that both parties agree on scope before payment capture or milestone activation.
  • Store message history tied to the project for support and dispute resolution.

Payments and Payouts · High priority

  • Payments must be secure, transparent, and tied to project milestones or full project acceptance.
  • Integrate Stripe for card payments, payment intents, refunds, and creator payouts.
  • Support upfront payment or milestone-based releases depending on project configuration.
  • Calculate marketplace commission and show fee breakdown before checkout.
  • Trigger automated receipts and payout status updates after successful capture.
  • Handle failed payments, expired cards, refund requests, and payout failures with user-friendly recovery flows.

Ratings, Reviews, and Trust · Medium priority

  • Completed projects should generate social proof and marketplace trust signals.
  • Prompt both parties to leave a rating and written review after completion.
  • Allow private feedback and public review moderation by admins.
  • Display aggregate rating, review count, and verified-completion badge on creator profiles.
  • Prevent reviews from being submitted until payment status is completed or released.
  • Flag suspicious review patterns for admin inspection.

Fast Onboarding to First Match

  • Choose role: creator or client.
  • Sign up with email, Google, or LinkedIn.
  • Complete the minimum profile or project brief in under 5 minutes.
  • See matched creators or incoming project interest immediately after setup.
  • Connect Stripe for payouts or payment method before first transaction.
  • Time to value target: first meaningful action within 3 minutes and first match or lead within 10 minutes.

1. Account Creation

  • Users create an account and choose whether they are a creator or client.
  • Support email/password and OAuth signup.
  • Require email verification before posting or paying.
  • Route users into role-specific onboarding immediately after signup.

2. Role-Specific Setup

  • Creators complete profile details; clients submit project requirements.
  • Creators add skills, pricing, portfolio, and availability.
  • Clients define budget, timeline, scope, and desired category.
  • Warn users if required fields are missing and save progress automatically.

3. Discovery and Shortlisting

  • Clients search creators and creators monitor interest and inbound leads.
  • Show filterable results with relevance ranking.
  • Allow favorites, saved searches, and compare actions.
  • Surface empty-state suggestions when search criteria are too narrow.

4. Project Agreement and Payment

  • Both parties confirm scope, then payment is captured or placed into milestone flow.
  • Present scope summary, fees, and cancellation terms before payment.
  • Use Stripe checkout and payment intents for secure processing.
  • Prevent activation until payment succeeds and terms are accepted.

5. Delivery, Review, and Repeat

  • Work is completed, rated, and archived for future trust and repeat business.
  • Notify both parties when deliverables are marked complete.
  • Open review prompts only after completion or payout release.
  • Allow repeat booking from prior project history.

Power Features and Edge Cases

  • Milestone payments with partial releases and manual admin override.
  • Featured creator placements and promoted listings for marketplace monetization.
  • Dispute reporting with evidence upload and resolution tracking.
  • Creator availability calendar syncing for reduced double-booking.
  • Admin moderation for profiles, reviews, payouts, and fraud signals.

Clear, Trustworthy Marketplace UI

  • Use strong visual hierarchy for profiles, pricing, and trust signals.
  • Keep forms short with autosave, inline validation, and progress indicators.
  • Design mobile-first responsive layouts for both browsing and onboarding.
  • Maintain accessible color contrast, keyboard navigation, and descriptive error text.
  • Optimize search results and profile pages for sub-2-second perceived load with skeleton states.

Maya is a talented motion designer who has clients scattered across email, DMs, and spreadsheets. She spends too much time sending portfolios, negotiating scope, and waiting on payments, which makes freelance work feel unpredictable even when demand is there.

With CreatorBridge, Maya creates a polished profile, sets her pricing, and becomes discoverable to clients searching for motion design. When Jordan, a marketing manager, posts a campaign brief, he filters by budget and rating, starts a project, and pays securely through Stripe. Maya gets booked faster, gets paid on schedule, and builds a review trail that helps her command better rates over time.

For the marketplace operator, every completed project strengthens trust and improves matching data. The platform captures commission on each transaction, increases repeat bookings, and creates a scalable source of marketplace revenue with measurable conversion and retention.

User-Centric Metrics

  • 80% of new users complete onboarding within 5 minutes.
  • 60% of client searches lead to at least one creator profile view.
  • 35% of projects progress from brief to payment within 24 hours.
  • 4.6 average creator rating across completed projects.
  • Less than 10% of projects require manual support intervention.

Business Metrics

  • 20% client-to-booking conversion rate by month 4.
  • $150,000 GMV in the first 12 months.
  • 35% client repeat booking rate within 90 days.
  • 40% creator retention at 90 days.
  • Marketplace take rate maintained between 10% and 18% depending on category.

Technical Metrics

  • 99.9% monthly uptime.
  • Search and profile page p95 latency under 1.5 seconds.
  • Stripe payment success rate above 97% for valid cards.
  • Zero critical P1 security incidents and full audit logging for payment and admin actions.

Tracking Plan

  • Track signup_completed with role, channel, and device.
  • Track onboarding_step_completed for creator profile and client brief steps.
  • Track search_performed with filters, result count, and zero-result flag.
  • Track project_brief_submitted with budget, category, and timeline.
  • Track payment_started and payment_succeeded with amount, fee, and payment type.
  • Track review_submitted with rating, sentiment, and project type.
  • Track dispute_opened with reason and resolution outcome.

Technical Needs

  • Next.js app router with server actions for core workflows.
  • Supabase Auth, Postgres, Storage, and Row Level Security for secure multi-tenant data.
  • Stripe Checkout, Payment Intents, Connect, refunds, and webhook handling.
  • Background jobs for notifications, review prompts, and payout reconciliation using a queue such as BullMQ or Supabase cron.
  • Search indexing using Postgres full-text search initially, with Algolia or Meilisearch as scale demands grow.
  • Audit logging and event tracking pipeline for admin actions and marketplace analytics.
  • Image and file upload pipeline with validation, compression, and malware scanning.

Integration Points

  • Stripe for payments, payouts, refunds, and webhook events.
  • Google and LinkedIn OAuth for faster signup and identity signals.
  • Resend or SendGrid for transactional email notifications.
  • PostHog or Amplitude for product analytics.
  • Vercel for hosting and preview deployments.

Data Storage & Privacy

  • Store personal and payment-related metadata separately, with Stripe handling card details.
  • Use Supabase Row Level Security to isolate creator, client, and admin access.
  • Provide GDPR/CCPA-friendly account deletion, data export, and consent management.
  • Encrypt sensitive fields at rest where feasible and all traffic in transit over TLS.
  • Retain moderation and transaction logs for compliance while minimizing unnecessary personal data.

Scalability & Performance

  • Cache popular search results and creator profiles at the edge where possible.
  • Use pagination and cursor-based loading for search, messages, and review lists.
  • Move heavy tasks like image processing and notification fanout to async jobs.
  • Design webhook handlers to be idempotent and retry-safe.

Potential Challenges

  • Marketplace cold start may limit liquidity; mitigate with curated onboarding, featured categories, and manual matching during launch.
  • Fraudulent users or fake reviews could damage trust; mitigate with verification signals, moderation queues, and review gating after completed payments.
  • Payment disputes and refunds can create operational overhead; mitigate with clear scope templates, milestone support, and admin dispute workflows.
  • Search quality may feel weak with sparse inventory; mitigate with fallback recommendations, category curation, and relevance tuning.
  • Creator churn may rise if demand is inconsistent; mitigate with lead notifications, featured placement, and repeat-booking tools.

Team & resourcing - Small team - 2 full-stack engineers, 1 product designer, part-time PM, and part-time QA/ops support.

Phase 1: MVP Foundation · Weeks 1-4

  • Next.js app scaffold with Supabase auth and role-based onboarding.
  • Creator profiles, client briefs, and public profile pages.
  • Basic search and shortlist flow.
  • Stripe checkout for one-time payments.
  • Core analytics events and admin access basics.

Phase 2: Marketplace Transactions · Weeks 5-8

  • Project creation and status workflow.
  • Messaging with attachments and unread indicators.
  • Payment webhooks, receipts, refunds, and commission calculation.
  • Creator reviews and rating display.
  • Moderation tools for users, profiles, and reviews.

Phase 3: Trust and Growth Tools · Weeks 9-12

  • Saved searches, featured creators, and improved ranking signals.
  • Milestone payment support and dispute intake.
  • Email automation for onboarding, payment, and review prompts.
  • Admin dashboard for GMV, conversion, and support metrics.
  • Profile completeness and conversion optimization improvements.

Phase 4: Scale Readiness · Weeks 13-16

  • Search optimization and performance tuning.
  • Expanded analytics, cohort reporting, and funnel dashboards.
  • Fraud and anomaly detection rules.
  • Localization-ready content structure and compliance workflows.
  • Operational playbooks for support, refunds, and moderation.

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Build a two-sided marketplace web app called CreatorBridge using Next.js, Supabase, Stripe, and a modern responsive UI.

Product summary:
CreatorBridge connects creators and clients. Creators can create profiles with portfolio samples, skills, pricing, availability, and reviews. Clients can search and filter creators, submit project briefs, message creators, and pay securely. The platform needs onboarding, secure payments, project status tracking, ratings/reviews, and an admin moderation area.

Core screens and flows:
1. Landing page with role selection and calls to action for creators and clients
2. Authentication with email/password and Google OAuth
3. Role-based onboarding wizard
4. Creator profile editor and public profile page
5. Client search/browse page with filters, sort, favorites, and empty states
6. Project brief creation and project detail page
7. In-app messaging thread with attachments and unread counts
8. Stripe checkout and payment confirmation flow
9. Review and rating submission flow after project completion
10. Admin dashboard for moderation, disputes, and marketplace metrics

Data model:
Users with role creator/client/admin, CreatorProfile, ClientBrief, Project, Message, Review, Favorite, Payment, Payout, Dispute, AuditLog, Category, PortfolioItem.
Use Supabase Postgres with Row Level Security so each user can only access permitted records. Store files in Supabase Storage.

Payments:
Use Stripe Checkout and Payment Intents for client payments, Stripe Connect for creator payouts, webhook handlers for payment success/failure/refunds, and marketplace fee calculation.

Tech stack:
Next.js App Router, TypeScript, Supabase Auth/Postgres/Storage, Stripe, Tailwind CSS, shadcn/ui, Zod validation, server actions where appropriate, PostHog for analytics, Vercel deployment.

Build requirements:
Implement responsive, accessible UI with strong trust signals, inline validation, autosave for onboarding forms, pagination for search and messaging, and clear empty/error states. Add seed data for at least 10 creators and 5 client briefs. Include role-based navigation, protected routes, and admin-only screens. Make the app production-minded with clean component structure, reusable form primitives, webhook handling, and a simple dashboard showing signup, search, booking, GMV, and review metrics.

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