Motion Design Platform — Community & Marketplace
The home base for motion designers who build with Remotion. Brand Kits, a template marketplace with a 70/30 creator split, AI video generation, a learning platform, and a community built for people who actually ship.
Overview
ColabMotion is a standalone motion design community platform built specifically for Remotion developers and motion designers who work with code. The problem it solves is straightforward: motion designers waste hours rebuilding the same branded intro, lower third, or social clip from scratch every time a project comes in. Remotion builders have no dedicated place to sell their templates professionally. And there is no community specifically for code-driven motion design.
ColabMotion fixes all three at once. The Brand Kit system lets users store their colors, fonts, logo, and animation style once — and apply everything to any Remotion template in one click. The marketplace lets creators sell templates, bundles, and courses at a 70/30 revenue split that always favors the creator. Kling AI video generation means anyone can produce a cinematic video clip from a text prompt without touching a timeline. The learning platform layers free tutorials, AI-taught interactive lessons powered by DeepSeek, and paid creator courses on top of an active community with weekly challenges, a showcase feed, Q&A, real-time chat, and a reputation system that rewards builders who contribute.
This is not a general social media scheduler, not a competitor to Premiere or DaVinci, and not a generic AI video wrapper. It is specifically built for the Remotion ecosystem — the intersection of software development and motion design — an audience that currently has no real home.
Platform Features
Every feature of ColabMotion is purpose-built for the Remotion motion design workflow. The Brand Kit lives at the center — it connects templates, renders, and published content into a unified brand identity. Everything else radiates outward from that core.
Store everything needed to brand a video in one place: primary, secondary, accent, background, and text colors; heading and body font families from Google Fonts; animation style (bold, minimal, playful, elegant, corporate); social handle; website URL; and four logo variants (primary, icon, dark, light) stored in Supabase Storage with signed 365-day URLs. Apply a Brand Kit to any template and all values inject automatically as Remotion props. Multiple kits per workspace — scale from one per Free user to unlimited on Agency.
color palette · google fonts · animation style · 4 logo variants · multi-kit · remotion props injection
A creator-first marketplace for production-quality Remotion templates. Every template defines its canvas size, frame rate, duration, and a JSON Schema for its customizable props. Users apply a Brand Kit and the kit values inject as props before rendering. Creators publish via a review and approval workflow. The revenue model is permanently fixed at 70% to the creator, 30% to the platform — no negotiation, no exceptions. Stripe Connect Express handles all creator payouts through a guided onboarding flow. Free templates are supported on any tier, giving creators full access to the audience without a paywall.
remotion templates · json schema props · stripe connect · 70/30 split · creator review workflow · free + paid
Kling AI is a text-to-video model capable of generating cinematic, physics-accurate video clips from a text prompt. A user types a prompt — a steaming burger bursting through a phone screen, a product launching out of a device, a character walking into a real space — selects duration and style, clicks Generate, and the clip appears in their media library within roughly 30 seconds. Generated clips land in the user's media library and can be pulled into any Remotion template as a video layer or downloaded directly. Generation limits are enforced per billing period at the plan level and tracked in the subscriptions table, resetting on each billing cycle.
text-to-video · cinematic clips · media library integration · plan-gated limits · billing period resets
Video rendering runs on Remotion Lambda on AWS. Each render job is tracked in the database with status, progress percentage, output URL, cost, and format details. Render specifications scale with the subscription tier — resolution, duration limits, and concurrent renders increase at each plan level. Render costs are tracked per job and rolled into the platform's cost monitoring system alongside Kling, OpenRouter, and other external service costs. An automatic alert fires to a configured email address when total costs exceed 20% of monthly subscription revenue.
remotion lambda · aws · status tracking · cost monitoring · plan-tiered specs · cost alerts
Three layers of learning content in one place. Free tutorials are written and published by the ColabMotion team — Markdown content, server-side rendered, SEO-optimized, accessible without a login. AI-taught interactive lessons are chat-based sessions powered by DeepSeek V3 via OpenRouter, organized into tracks covering Remotion fundamentals, motion design principles, advanced Remotion, marketplace success, and the business of motion design. Each lesson has a teaching persona and awards reputation points on completion. Paid creator courses follow a section and lesson structure with video, written, or mixed content, downloadable resources, progress tracking, and certificate generation. Course enrollment uses Stripe Checkout and a 70/30 revenue split.
free tutorials · ai lessons · deepseek · reputation points · paid courses · certificates · 70/30 split
Interactive, chat-based learning sessions where the AI acts as a tutor with a defined teaching persona loaded from a system prompt per lesson track. Sessions are stored with full message history in the database. The AI monitors whether the learning objective has been met and signals lesson completion autonomously — the session is then marked complete, reputation points are awarded, and the reputation event is logged. Five tracks cover the full lifecycle from Remotion fundamentals to building a motion design business. All AI calls route through OpenRouter with DeepSeek V3 as the primary model.
deepseek v3 · openrouter · 5 learning tracks · session history · autonomous completion detection · reputation events
Three distinct feeds keep content organized: a showcase feed for finished work, a dev corner for technical discussion and Remotion Q&A, and a general community feed. Posts support text, media (video and image), linked templates, and contest or challenge entries. A reputation system rewards contribution — posting a showcase earns points, getting likes earns points, answering questions earns points, winning a weekly challenge earns 100 points, winning a contest earns 200. Weekly challenges give the community a shared creative prompt with a surface type focus and a start and end date. Creator profiles are extended with marketplace and community identity, follower counts, and aggregate sales stats.
3 feeds · weekly challenges · reputation system · creator profiles · follower system · q&a · contests
Connected social accounts enable one-click and scheduled publishing directly from inside ColabMotion. Supported platforms are Facebook Pages, Instagram via the Facebook Graph API, LinkedIn, and Twitter/X. OAuth tokens are stored AES-256-GCM encrypted with automatic refresh token handling. Starter tier allows publishing to three platforms. Pro adds cross-platform scheduling. Agency adds cross-platform analytics. Publishing is a feature of the platform, not its identity — the core is motion design creation, not social media management.
facebook · instagram · linkedin · twitter/x · aes-256-gcm tokens · scheduling · cross-platform analytics
Architecture
ColabMotion is a standalone Next.js application built to Allen Code Co production standards — TypeScript strict mode, zero any, zero eslint-disable, Zod validation on every API POST and PATCH body before any database write, and service role client restricted exclusively to webhooks, crons, and admin operations. It shares no code with any other Allen Code Co project.
Frontend
Database & Storage
Billing & Creator Payouts
checkout.session.completed and invoice.payment_succeeded with billing reason filtering for credit resets.
AI & Video
Auth & Security
Cost Management
COST_ALERT_EMAIL when total costs exceed 20% of monthly subscription revenue. This alert must be wired before launch.
Business Model
ColabMotion generates revenue from four sources: subscription plans, template marketplace transactions, course enrollments, and template bundle purchases. Subscription billing uses an annual pricing model where users pay for 10 months and receive 12 — approximately 17% savings versus monthly. The Free tier is intentionally generous: full community access, free tutorials, AI lessons, 1 Brand Kit with preview, and the ability to browse and purchase marketplace items without a subscription.
Free Tier
Full community access, free tutorials, AI lessons, 1 Brand Kit (create and preview — renders locked), marketplace browsing, and the ability to purchase templates and post free templates without a subscription.
→ Funnel to paid via render access
Starter Plan
3 Brand Kits with full render access, publishing to 3 social platforms, standard render specs, and marketplace purchasing. No Kling AI access at this tier.
→ Annual billing, ~17% savings
Pro Plan
10 Brand Kits, all social platforms with scheduling, 20 Kling AI video generations per billing period, higher render specs, and access to premium templates locked to Pro and Agency.
→ Kling credits reset each billing cycle
Agency Plan
Unlimited Brand Kits, 50 Kling AI generations per period, all platforms with scheduling, cross-platform analytics, and the highest render specs and concurrent render limits.
→ Built for studios and agencies
Marketplace Transactions
Template purchases, bundle purchases, and course enrollments all use Stripe Checkout in payment mode. Platform takes 30%, creator receives 70% via Stripe Connect Express. No subscription required to purchase.
→ 70/30 split, permanent policy
Cost Controls
Kling AI generation is hard-capped at the plan level — no overages. Cost monitoring tracks all external service spend against subscription revenue. Mandatory alert at 20% cost-to-revenue ratio before launch.
→ Cost alert wired pre-launch
The Opportunity
Remotion is a React-based framework for building videos programmatically. It has a growing, technically sophisticated audience: software developers who also do motion design, motion designers who have learned to code, and creative agencies that have adopted code-driven video production for its repeatability and brand accuracy. This audience is active, passionate, and underserved. They exist across Discord servers, GitHub repositories, YouTube tutorials, and scattered Twitter threads — with no dedicated platform.
ColabMotion is built specifically for this gap. The Brand Kit system solves the core workflow problem (rebuild nothing, brand everything). The marketplace gives Remotion developers their first professional sales channel. Kling AI gives the community access to viral video generation without needing motion design expertise. The learning platform makes Remotion more accessible, expanding the total addressable audience. And the community gives everyone a place to exist as a group for the first time.
The application is in active development at Allen Code Co. The blueprint is locked. The architecture is specified. The tech stack is selected. A buyer or partner acquiring ColabMotion gets a complete, battle-tested product specification, a codebase built to the same production standards as every Allen Code Co application, and first-mover position in a market with no direct competitor.
ColabMotion is available for acquisition, partnership, or investment. Reach out to discuss the development roadmap, the codebase, or terms.