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The hard problems were media delivery and mixed-media monetization. Whole-file downloads meant the reader and audio player stalled until an entire book or episode had arrived. Four content types could not share one access rule — a plan may include podcasts and exclude courses — and each medium needed its own preview mechanism. On top of that, publisher contracts had to ship as properly typeset Arabic PDFs, something off-the-shelf PDF generation handles badly.

Delivery was rebuilt around HTTP range streaming from Cloudflare R2: the reader and player fetch byte ranges on demand, which fixed load times without touching the storage layer. Entitlements live in a features jsonb on each subscription plan and are enforced per content type, so plans compose freely across books, audiobooks, podcasts and courses. Previews follow the same per-medium logic — a publisher-set percentage of a book, an ffmpeg-generated audio clip for a podcast.

On the publisher side, a 15-screen dashboard on a navy/gold design system is backed by automated earnings computation feeding payout workflows, with a separate admin dashboard for running the platform. Contracts are generated by overlaying pdf-lib text in Tajawal on a raster background — sidestepping broken Arabic shaping in PDF tooling — and the sharp pipeline emits WebP derivatives for every uploaded image.