Take ownership of your community data by building social and AI features into your own application. User profiles, posts, comments, real-time chat, notifications, and AI-powered moderation — all in one modular, extensible SDK that you control.
npx create-socialsdev-app@latest my-social-appOPEN SOURCE AND DEVELOPER-FOCUSED
Socialsdev is an open-source framework and comprehensive SDK suite that enables developers to rapidly build applications with rich social and AI features. Instead of spending months building user systems, content feeds, and real-time messaging from scratch, you can integrate production-ready modules in hours.
Our modular architecture means you only use what you need. Start with user profiles, add posts and comments later, then enable real-time chat when your community is ready. Everything is designed to scale from hundreds to millions of users.
Built by developers, for developers
Use only what you need
Days instead of months
MIT licensed, forever free
1import { SocialSDK, UserProfile } from '@socialsdev/sdk';23// Initialize the SDK4const social = new SocialSDK({5 apiKey: process.env.SOCIALSDEV_API_KEY,6 appId: 'your-app-id'7});89// Create a user profile with custom fields10const profile = await social.profiles.create({11 userId: user.id,12 displayName: 'Sarah Chen',13 avatar: 'https://...',14 bio: 'Building the future of social apps',15 customFields: {16 location: 'San Francisco',17 website: 'https://sarahchen.dev',18 verified: true19 }20});2122// Fetch profile with relationships23const fullProfile = await social.profiles.get(userId, {24 include: ['followers', 'following', 'posts']25});A comprehensive toolkit for adding user profiles, content feeds, real-time messaging, notifications, and AI-powered features to your applications.
Create rich user profiles with avatars, bios, custom fields, and social connections. Support for followers, following, blocking, and privacy controls built-in.
Build engaging content feeds with posts, threaded comments, reactions, shares, and bookmarks. Support for rich media, mentions, hashtags, and content formatting.
Add instant messaging with direct chats, group rooms, channels, and threads. Features include typing indicators, read receipts, presence, and file sharing.
Push notifications, in-app alerts, email digests, and activity feeds. AI-powered batching and prioritization to reduce notification fatigue.
Secure auth with OAuth, SSO, passwordless login, and MFA. Role-based access control, session management, and compliance-ready security features.
Content moderation, smart recommendations, sentiment analysis, auto-tagging, and spam detection. Integrate with OpenAI, Anthropic, or your own models.
Industry research consistently shows that apps with social and community features dramatically outperform standalone applications in engagement, retention, and user satisfaction.
Enterprise-grade infrastructure that handles millions of users while providing a delightful developer experience with comprehensive documentation and tooling.
Extend functionality with our plugin architecture. Connect payment processors, analytics, CRMs, and custom integrations without modifying core code.
Self-host on your infrastructure, deploy to any cloud provider, or use our managed cloud. Docker, Kubernetes, and serverless options available.
Built-in CMS for managing posts, media, and user-generated content. Moderation queues, content policies, and automated enforcement.
Upload, process, and serve images, videos, and documents. Automatic optimization, CDN delivery, and storage management included.
Native SDKs for React, React Native, iOS, Android, Flutter, and more. Consistent APIs across all platforms with platform-specific optimizations.
GDPR, CCPA, and SOC 2 compliant. Data residency options, consent management, and privacy-by-design architecture.
From creator platforms to enterprise intranets, Socialsdev powers diverse applications across industries.
Build vibrant community spaces with discussions, groups, events, and member directories.
Enable creators to connect with their audience through exclusive content and interactions.
Create collaborative learning environments with cohorts, discussions, and peer feedback.
Internal social networks for companies with announcements, recognition, and collaboration.
Plug into the tools and services you already use. Our plugin system makes integration seamless.
Hear what founders, CTOs, and developers have to say about building with Socialsdev
"Socialsdev streamlined our development process significantly. The modular architecture allowed us to implement only the features we needed, reducing complexity while maintaining full functionality."
"The plugin system and extensible architecture make it easy to customize functionality for specific use cases. Integration with existing authentication systems was straightforward."
"Having pre-built components for profiles, posts, and real-time messaging significantly reduced our time to market. The TypeScript-first approach improved our development workflow."
"The documentation is comprehensive and the SDK follows modern development patterns. Self-hosting options give us full control over our data and infrastructure."
Our CLI tool scaffolds a complete social application with your choice of features. Choose what you need, configure your environment, and start building immediately.
Run the CLI command to scaffold your app
Select profiles, posts, chat, or all of the above
Customize, extend, and launch your social app
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Free tier includes up to 1,000 monthly active users. No credit card required.