Public website and private member area
Describe the public pages, member experience, content, and access rules you need. Playcode builds the website and the database-backed member workflow together, so you can review the real states before publishing.
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A membership website combines public pages with authenticated member areas, protected resources, and an admin workflow. With Playcode, you describe the membership levels, invitation or sign-up path, access rules, and content. Playcode builds the site as real code with database-backed records, then helps you test and publish it.
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Define who can access what before adding more screens
List what anyone may see, what requires sign-in, and what depends on an active membership level. Name the first member resource, the admin task, and what should happen when access expires or is revoked.
Include example records for a member, a workspace or organization, and an access grant so the first build starts with explicit rules instead of a hidden-page shortcut.
Ask Playcode to add sign-in, invite acceptance or registration, protected resource checks, and a private admin view. Test the same URL while signed out, as an active member, and as another ordinary account.
Then test invite reuse, session expiry, membership cancellation, and revoked access. The server must reject each unauthorized request even when someone knows the resource URL.
Publish the core member workflow over HTTPS and run a production smoke test. Monitor sign-in, invite, and denied-access failures with stable request IDs that do not expose private member data.
If access follows payment, connect a provider through its API and signed webhooks using your own account and server-side credentials. Keep provider billing state separate from the access state your app enforces.
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Members get a clear experience and operators get rules they can verify
Start with one protected resource and one complete access lifecycle
Explain the membership, show selected previews, answer common questions, and make the next action clear without exposing private resources.
Give members an authenticated path and define what happens after sign-out, inactivity, session expiry, or an account change.
Check access on every list, detail, download, and update request rather than relying on a hidden menu or browser-only condition.
Keep identity, organization membership, and resource access separate so an operator can change one without corrupting the others.
Track invitations from issue to acceptance, expiry, or revocation, with a rule for repeated clicks and already-used links.
Give authorized operators a protected view of members, invitations, access states, and recent changes without leaking private data into routine logs.
Model the records, enforce access on the server, and test the same resource from different account states.
Every page, resource, file, and action needs an explicit audience: public, signed-in member, membership level, workspace role, or operator only.
Ready when: Each item in the first release has exactly one access rule and an owner who can approve changes to it.
A person identity, their organization membership, and permission to a resource are different facts with different lifecycles.
Ready when: You can revoke one resource grant without deleting the person or removing their unrelated workspace membership.
Decide who may invite, how long a link remains valid, whether it is single-use, and when personal data for rejected, expired, or inactive members is deleted.
Ready when: The issue, accept, expire, revoke, and delete outcomes each have a named trigger and observable final state.
Define member, workspace, workspace membership, access grant, invitation, and protected resource records. Name stable IDs, timestamps, status values, ownership, and allowed transitions before asking for screens.
The project has a small data model where identity, organization membership, invitations, and resource access can change independently.
Walk one fictional person through invited, accepted, active, expired, and revoked states without overloading a single boolean field.
Create public membership information and a signed-in member shell with loading, signed-out, empty, active, expired, and denied states. Keep protected record data out of the public response payload.
Visitors can understand the offer, while signed-in members see navigation appropriate to their current access state.
Open the same member URL signed out, signed in without access, and signed in with access; each state shows the intended result without exposing another state's data.
Resolve the signed-in identity, workspace context, resource owner, and active access grant on the server before returning or changing data. Treat hidden buttons as presentation, not authorization.
An unauthorized account receives a denied response even when it requests a known resource ID directly.
Copy a valid resource URL or ID into a second ordinary account and a private session, then confirm neither can read, update, or download it.
Use an unguessable, time-limited invitation token, store only the safe server-side representation needed to verify it, and make acceptance retry-safe. Revoke access independently from deleting the person.
One invitation creates at most one intended membership or access grant, and revoked or expired links cannot recreate access.
Accept the same fictional invite twice, retry once after an interrupted response, then revoke it and confirm the final member and access counts remain correct.
Publish the core flow, use fictional accounts to complete invite, accept, sign-in, view, session-expiry, and revoke paths, and record stable request or member IDs for diagnosis without logging tokens or private fields.
The public site loads over HTTPS and the protected resource remains available only while the tested member has an active authorized session and grant.
Repeat the protected request after sign-out, session expiry, and revocation, then confirm each request is denied and the operator can identify the event from bounded logs.
Choose: Use roles for broad collections with the same policy. Use explicit grants when members should receive different courses, files, cohorts, or client spaces.
Tradeoff: Roles are easier to operate but can become too broad. Resource grants are precise but require clearer admin tools and more authorization tests.
Choose: Keep a local access record as the application source of truth. If payments are added, let verified provider events propose idempotent state changes rather than checking billing live on every resource request.
Tradeoff: Automated events scale better but require a provider account, API credentials, signed webhooks, retry handling, and reconciliation. Manual confirmation is slower but keeps the first release smaller.
Invite a fictional person, accept once, sign in, and open one protected resource in the intended workspace.
Expected: One member record and one active access grant exist, and the resource loads for that account.
Use an expired invite, omit a required field, and request a known resource from a signed-out session and a second ordinary account.
Expected: No access is created, every protected request is denied server-side, and no private resource data is returned.
Accept the same invitation twice and replay the same optional provider event identifier when a billing integration exists.
Expected: The invite creates one membership, the event applies once, and the final access state remains deterministic.
Open the published site in a private browser, complete a fictional invitation, verify one protected resource, then revoke access.
Expected: The HTTPS journey works once, and the same resource is denied immediately after revocation and after session expiry.
Change the access rules and resources without changing the core safety model
Lessons by program or cohort
Give members access to the courses, downloads, recordings, and progress views assigned to their program while keeping public previews open.
Resources by member status
Combine public membership information with a directory, document library, renewals view, or working-group space for authorized members.
Free and paid collections
Publish open samples and protect premium articles, videos, files, or tools. Add billing later only when the core access lifecycle is reliable.
Access by organization
Group members into workspaces, assign resources to the right customers or partners, and give operators a clear revoke and recovery path.
The member can see available resources, unavailable levels, and the current workspace without confusing access state with payment checkout.
Keeping identity, organization membership, and resource access separate makes the system easier to test, revoke, and recover
The difference appears when access changes or two accounts are tested
| Membership need | Hidden or password page | Playcode membership website |
|---|---|---|
| Public and private content | One shared secret or hidden URL | Explicit access rules for every protected resource path |
| Member lifecycle | Manual spreadsheet updates | Database-backed invite, active, expired, and revoked states |
| Organization context | One undifferentiated user list | Member identity, workspace membership, and access grants kept separate |
| Payment boundary | Checkout success assumed to equal authorization | Optional provider events reconciled into local access state |
| Testing and operation | Owner account happy-path only | Signed-out, cross-account, expiry, retry, revoke, and production checks |
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Yes. Describe the public pages, member journeys, records, and access rules in plain English. Playcode builds the project as real code while you guide changes through chat and visual editing. You still need to review the rules and test every protected path before publishing.
No native membership or billing service is claimed here. Playcode can build the website, authentication flow, database-backed records, and access checks. Payments require a separate provider account, plan, credentials, API or checkout path, and signed webhook handling when you choose to add them.
Check the signed-in identity, workspace context, resource, and active access on the server for every list, detail, download, update, and export request. Hiding a link or button in the browser is not authorization.
Yes. Model the person, their workspace membership, and their resource access as separate records. That lets one person belong to more than one organization or receive different collections without duplicating their identity.
Define an explicit transition that deactivates the relevant access grant while preserving the member record and any unrelated workspace role. Test the protected request from the existing session so revoked access does not linger only because the browser has not refreshed.
The app can create and track invitations. Sending email requires an email provider account, plan, API key or SMTP credentials, and server-side configuration. Keep email delivery outside the membership write boundary so a provider outage does not create duplicate members.
The project code can be exported. Treat source-code export, member-record export, and whole-app recovery as separate contracts. Confirm the exact runtime-data handoff you need before relying on an export for migration or backup.
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Describe the member, workspace, access, and invitation rules. Playcode builds the first working version, and you can test every state before sharing it.
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