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What is social.dev?

Social.dev is the easiest way for developers to build real-time, cross-platform social and AI apps.

▫️A modular, open source SDK that gives developers maximum extensibility and control.

▫️Add social & AI features into your existing app or build new apps with our starter templates.

▫️Choose which features to use or extend the SDK with your own custom features.

▫️Built on a unified TypeScript stack with React Native, NestJS, Redis, S3, Postgres, and Docker

What's included in the SDK

▫️ User Profiles
▫️ AI Profiles
▫️ Posts
▫️ Feeds
▫️ Replies
▫️ Chat
▫️ Comments
▫️ Reactions
▫️ Communities
▫️ Moderation
▫️ Upload Video, Audio, Images
▫️ Plugins

What's included in the social.dev cloud server

Configurable backend services to get up and running quickly:

▫️ Authentication
▫️ Database
▫️ Object Storage
▫️ Event Streams
▫️ Background Runners
▫️ Webhooks
▫️ Notifications
▫️ Caching
▫️ Containers

Advanced features:

▫️ Advanced analytics
▫️ Advanced AI workflows
▫️ Compliance tooling (coming soon)
▫️ Advanced recommendation algorithms
▫️ Premium support packages

What you can build

▫️ Build social, chat or AI apps - Launch your own social networking app (public or private)

▫️ Add social features into your website or app - Add profiles, feeds, comments, groups or chat to any app

▫️ Build internal collaboration tools - Build collaboration tools and messaging apps for your teams

▫️ Create private messenger apps - Create real-time messaging apps to chat with your communities

▫️ Build new engaging AI experiences - Create unique social AI experiences and grow engagement

How to deploy

▫️ The social.dev cloud offering is coming soon to provide managed hosting and easy deployment

▫️ Deploy everything to production with a single click and we manage everything for you

▫️ Self-host on your own infrastructure today

Get involved

▫️ Star us on GitHub – Help us reach 1,000 stars

▫️ Join our community – Join the Social.dev developer community (coming soon)

▫️ Contribute to the project – PRs and new plugins are encouraged

Licensing

Social.dev is open source under the MIT License.