Web design, hosting & care · DurbanOceanEye
- Industry
- Live surf cameras and weather
- Based in
- Durban, South Africa
- Built on
- WordPress, subscription platform
- With us
- Website, hosting & care, Web design
Surfers check the cameras before they pick up the car keys, and OceanEye's first website was letting the cameras down. We offered to rebuild it at a price that made it easy to say yes, built them a live weather widget, and have hosted and managed it ever since.
Website, hosting & care
Rebuilt, then looked after.
A live weather widget, built to order
We built a custom widget that puts live conditions beside each camera, modelled on the Magic Seaweed widget surfers already knew how to read.
A subscription platform, kept current
Members pay for the cameras, so the site is on a care plan with us: WordPress, the theme and the plugins that run the memberships are kept up to date, and there are hours in the plan for whatever comes up.
Hosted on Kinsta
Hosting is on Kinsta, where we are an Agency Partner: Google Cloud servers, Cloudflare's network in front, and a backup taken every day.
ResultsWeb design
Surfers want to see the waves before they drive to them. We rebuilt the platform behind OceanEye's cameras as a subscription product, not a website with a camera on it.
Live, and worth paying for
A camera feed is the free part. What people subscribe for is being able to rewind it, read the forecast beside it and check a spot they are not standing on. The build treats those as the product and the live picture as the invitation.
Subscriptions that run themselves
WooCommerce Subscriptions on Stripe, with the premium tier priced for a monthly habit rather than a one-off. Sign-up, renewal, failed cards and cancellation all handle themselves, which is what makes a small recurring price worth collecting.
Conditions from a real source
Swell, wind and tide come in per spot from a marine forecast API rather than being typed in by hand. The number on the page is the same number the models are producing, which is the only version anyone would trust.
Built to add coastline
Every spot is a record, not a page someone has to build. Adding one is an afternoon, so the network grows at the speed they can mount cameras; it now has more than fifty.
If you’re in subscription media and need to take control of your website, let’s talk.
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