A live streaming discovery platform built from zero — multi-platform creator integrations, real-time competition and prediction systems, payment infrastructure, AI-assisted content tooling, and full deployment infrastructure. Built entirely by Michael Hawkins.
FameForecast is a live streaming discovery platform where fans predict creator growth, compete in seasonal competitions, and collect creator cards. It aggregates data across Twitch, YouTube, Kick, Instagram, Spotify and TikTok — all built on a custom Flask backend with a full-featured admin control plane.
Every layer — from database schema design to payment webhooks to email automation to the real-time scoring engine — was architected and built by Michael Hawkins as both a commercial product and a proof-of-concept for the systems HBA brings to client engagements.
The platform is live in production, processing real payments, sending real emails, and running real competitions.
15+ blueprints covering auth, payments, predictions, competitions, creators, admin, showdowns, and resources — all independently testable and deployable.
CSRF protection on all forms, DOMPurify XSS sanitisation, bot-trap routes, a proprietary bot-resistant human signal scoring engine for competition integrity, and input controls throughout.
GZip response compression, parameter-inclusive cache keys (MD5), tiered invalidation, lazy-loaded assets, PurgeCSS-generated per-page stylesheets, and preconnect for all external origins.
Google App Engine with App Engine warmup, Redis on Cloud Memorystore, Google Cloud Storage for user-uploaded media and card assets, structured JSON logging throughout.
Public and R&D builds maintained simultaneously. R&D features gated behind runtime controls and not exposed in the public deployment.
A custom NLP-based pipeline for classifying and continuously re-categorising Clip Duel videos at scale — built entirely in-house.
FameForecast is not a side project or prototype. It is a live, revenue-generating platform built from first principles — every system was scoped, designed, and implemented end-to-end.
When HBA takes on a client engagement, this is the standard of delivery you can expect: production-grade systems, full traceability, no black boxes, and architecture that your team can understand, maintain, and build on.