Artistcamp – Bandcamp-Style SaaS Music Marketplace

Artistcamp is a modern full-stack music marketplace template inspired by Bandcamp. It is built for independent music platforms where artists can publish releases, sell albums and tracks, grow their audience, and manage their storefront while listeners can discover, stream, purchase, favorite, follow, and download music.

This is a complete SaaS-style marketplace starter built with a React frontend and Laravel API backend. It includes public discovery pages, artist profiles, release pages, cart and checkout, fan libraries, artist dashboards, admin moderation, branding settings, demo installation, and a web installer for customer deployments.

Why Artistcamp?

Artistcamp gives you a strong foundation for launching an independent music marketplace, creator audio platform, white-label artist storefront product, or digital downloads business. Instead of starting from a blank Laravel and React project, you get the main marketplace flows already structured and connected.

Main Features

• Public discovery homepage with featured, trending, newest releases, and charts.
• Artist directory with A-Z browsing.
• Release directory with latest published releases.
• Public artist storefronts with cover image, avatar, bio, followers, releases, and comments.
• Pretty release permalinks generated from release titles.
• Search across artists, releases, tracks, genres, and tags.
• Persistent audio player with waveform-style progress and click-to-seek behavior.
• Album and individual track purchase support.
• Cart and checkout flow.
• Stripe Checkout support with webhook confirmation.
• Demo checkout mode when Stripe keys are not configured.
• Listener library with purchases, downloads, orders, favorites, and activity.
• Favorite releases with consistent heart icon behavior.
• Artist dashboard with overview, analytics, upload, releases, storefront, and sales sections.
• Multi-track release draft workflow.
• Release cover, track audio, artist avatar, and artist cover upload support.
• Track metadata editing, pricing, genre, tags, explicit flag, BPM, ISRC, lyrics, and credits fields.
• Admin dashboard with overview, earnings, users, comments, releases, and settings tabs.
• Admin revenue-share settings for default artist percentage and per-artist overrides.
• Monthly artist earnings overview for payout management.
• Comment moderation with hide, unhide, and delete actions.
• Release moderation with delete action.
• Website branding settings for site name, logo, primary color, terms of use, and privacy policy.
• Automatic light/dark mode with manual user toggle.
• Responsive frontend header with mobile navigation.
• Google login hooks.
• 404 page, checkout return pages, account settings, and password change page.
• Web installer for empty databases.
• Optional demo mode installer with generated artists, listeners, releases, artwork, and audio.

User Roles

Listener

Listeners can browse the marketplace, follow artists, stream tracks, add releases or individual tracks to cart, purchase music, save favorites, view orders, access downloads, and manage account settings.

Artist

Artists can manage their public storefront, upload profile and cover images, create releases, upload cover art and track files, edit release metadata, review analytics, and track sales.

Admin

Admins can manage users, review earnings, define artist revenue shares, moderate comments and releases, customize branding, edit legal policy content, and manage platform settings.

Technology Stack

• React
• TypeScript
• Vite
• Laravel
• MySQL or MariaDB
• Laravel migrations and seeders
• Laravel file storage
• Stripe Checkout
• Google OAuth hooks
• Docker setup for local development

Installation

Artistcamp includes a customer-friendly web installer. After uploading the package, creating an empty database, and pointing the backend domain to Laravel’s public directory, open:

<span class="hljs-symbol">https:</span><span class="hljs-comment">//api.yourdomain.com/install</span>

The installer checks server requirements, collects database credentials, writes the backend environment file, runs migrations, creates baseline settings, creates the first admin account, and locks the installer after setup.

There is also a db/starter.sql fallback for hosts that cannot run migrations from the installer.

Demo Mode

The installer includes an optional demo mode checkbox. When enabled, it creates sample listener accounts, artist accounts, demo releases, generated music-themed artwork, and playable demo audio.

Demo mode is useful for previews, staging, or buyer demos. Leave it disabled for a real production marketplace.

Payments

Artistcamp supports Stripe Checkout when Stripe keys are configured. Orders are confirmed through Stripe webhooks.

If Stripe keys are empty, Artistcamp uses demo checkout mode so the marketplace can still be tested without payment credentials.

File Uploads

The included upload workflow supports:

• Release cover art
• Track audio files
• Artist avatar images
• Artist cover images

The current implementation uses Laravel public storage. Object storage such as S3, Cloudflare R2, MinIO, or DigitalOcean Spaces can be added later through Laravel filesystem configuration.

Included Documentation

The package includes:

• README.md
• INSTALL.md
• docs/documenation.html
• db/starter.sql

These files explain local development, server installation, Vesta CP deployment, web installer usage, demo mode, payments, uploads, and troubleshooting.

Ideal For

• Independent music marketplace startups.
• Artist storefront platforms.
• Digital album and track download shops.
• White-label music SaaS products.
• Creator audio marketplaces.
• Portfolio projects for full-stack Laravel and React development.

Notes

This item is a software template and starter platform. It is not a hosted service. Buyers are responsible for hosting, server setup, payment provider configuration, legal policies, production content, and any third-party service accounts such as Stripe or Google OAuth.

Advanced production needs such as CDN setup, queue worker supervision, object storage, custom audio transcoding, and marketplace-specific legal compliance may require additional configuration or customization.