Build the newsroom CMS, the paywall, and the subscription stack a publisher can trust.
Content CMS, paywalls and metering, subscription billing, newsletter platforms, podcast and video hosting, editorial workflows. The software a publisher runs on, end to end. Built end to end, and you own the code.
The patterns we ship for media teams
Publishing is editorial, technical, and commercial at the same time. Here are the patterns that hold up.
Editorial CMS
Custom-fit to the byline, the desk, and the publishing workflow. Headless or rendered, image pipelines, content versioning, scheduled publish.
Paywalls + metering
Hard, soft, metered, premium-only. A/B-testable, attribution-aware, cookie-resilient. The conversion path subscribers actually walk.
Subscription billing
Stripe Billing or custom, plan switching, gifting, group/corporate seats, dunning. Recurring revenue stack a CFO can defend.
Newsletter platforms
List management, segments, automation, deliverability monitoring. Postmark or SES with the right reputation hygiene.
Podcast + video hosting
Encoding pipelines, CDN delivery, chapter markers, transcripts. Mux, Cloudflare Stream, or custom on R2.
Real-time publishing
Live updates for breaking news, market data, sports, or live events. WebSocket fan-out without a third-party realtime vendor in the loop.
Recent work, built and shipped.
Four featured projects Stacklane delivered end to end. Engineering, design, and brand on one cadence, with no internal hires required.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can you build an editorial CMS our newsroom will actually like?
We build a newsroom CMS around your editorial workflow: drafting, review, scheduling, and real-time publishing. Editors get a tool that fits how they work, not a generic page builder.
Can you build a paywall and metering that we control?
Yes. We build paywalls with metering (free article limits, registration walls, hard paywalls) that you can tune yourself. It is your logic and your subscriber data, not a third party's black box.
Do you handle subscription billing, newsletters, and podcast or video hosting?
We build the full subscription stack: recurring billing, newsletter platforms, and podcast or video hosting, integrated so a subscriber's access and content stay in sync. One system, not five tools stitched together.
Can it handle traffic spikes on a big story?
We build for real-time publishing and load, so a breaking story does not take the site down. A senior team owns performance from the start, and you own the code that runs it.
Stacklane is one of the best software teams we've worked with. We've thrown every kind of project at them and they deliver every time.
Let's ship the newsroom and the paywall.
Stacklane builds editorial CMSes, paywalls, subscription stacks, newsletter platforms, and the real-time surfaces a modern publisher needs.
Patterns we ship