On Demand

Netflix Clone

12 weeks
Duration
4 engineers
Team
Web + Mobile
Platform
Live
Status
HLS/DASH
Adaptive Streaming
5,000+
Subscribers
Multi-device
Platform Support
CDN
Global Delivery

A Few Words About The Client

Netflix Clone is an on-demand streaming platform that replicates core Netflix-style UX: browse, search, play, and continue watching. Block Intelligence built the front end, playback pipeline, and backend services so the client could deliver video to subscribers across devices.

The client needed a scalable streaming product with a familiar, binge-friendly experience. They had to support multiple devices, adaptive bitrate streaming, and a content catalog that could grow without degrading performance.

Industry

On Demand

Project

Netflix Clone

Duration

12 weeks

Team

4 engineers

Platform

Web + Mobile

Status

Live

Netflix Clone

Project Requirements

  • Catalog management: titles, metadata, thumbnails, and availability.
  • User accounts, subscriptions, and access control.
  • Video playback with adaptive streaming (e.g. HLS/DASH) and progress tracking.
  • Search, recommendations, and continue-watching experience.
  • Admin dashboard for content and user management.

Our Solution & Results

We delivered a web and mobile-friendly app with a rich catalog UI, secure playback with tokenized URLs and progress sync, and a backend for users, subscriptions, and content. We integrated with the client's CDN and storage and added basic recommendation logic.

The platform launched and has been used for live and on-demand content. Playback quality and reliability met expectations. The client has added more content and features using the same stack.

Business Impact & Value Delivered

Measurable outcomes Block Intelligence delivered for Netflix Clone - before vs after launch.

Buffering incidents

18% 2.1%

Content upload time

6 hrs 45 min

Subscriber churn (30-day)

12% 5.8%

Value delivered

  • Adaptive HLS/DASH streaming cut buffering from 18% to under 2.5%.
  • Continue-watching and search improvements lifted session duration by 83%.
  • Admin dashboard let non-technical teams publish content in under an hour.

Performance & Data Analysis

Streaming platform metrics from beta through 5,000+ subscriber milestone over 12 weeks post-launch.

5,000+
Active subscribers
+140% since beta
HLS/DASH
Adaptive streaming
Multi-bitrate delivery
97.9%
Playback success rate
CDN-optimized
22 min
Avg. session duration
+83% vs prior platform
MetricBeforeAfterChange
Video start time4.8 sec1.2 sec−75%
Continue-watching accuracy71%98%+27 pts
Admin content publish6 hrs45 min−88%
Search relevance (CTR)14%31%+121%

Delivery Timeline

1
Design & Architecture
Wk 1–2
2
Catalog & Auth
Wk 3–6
3
Playback Pipeline
Wk 7–10
4
Launch
Wk 11–12

Playback quality and buffering times were far better than our previous platform. The admin dashboard made content management genuinely easy for our non-technical team.

- Netflix Clone - Platform Manager

Technology Stack

Front End

01React 02React Native 03React/React Native 04video player (HLS.js or native) 05Node.js backend 06PostgreSQL 07Redis 08CDN 09object storage integration.

Back End

01Node.js 02PostgreSQL 03Redis

Infrastructure

01CDN 02Object storage

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