social.dev provides an open-source, modular SDK for building social and AI-powered features into web and mobile applications. The platform offers pre-built components for profiles, posts, chat, feeds, and notifications, enabling developers to launch full-featured social experiences in minutes. It supports flexible deployment through self-hosting or cloud infrastructure, with a plugin marketplace for integrating LLMs, payments, and analytics tools.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Developers building community-driven products face significant engineering overhead when implementing core social features like profiles, messaging, feeds, and notifications from scratch. This process typically requires months of backend development, real-time infrastructure setup, and cross-platform mobile work, diverting resources from core product differentiation. Additionally, integrating AI capabilities into social experiences often demands complex orchestration between multiple services and APIs.
Solution
social.dev offers a modular, open-source SDK that lets developers add complete social and AI functionality to existing or new applications with minimal code. The platform provides pre-built React Native and web components, including authentication flows, user profiles, chat interfaces, content feeds, and notification systems, all configurable through a single provider component. Developers can self-host the entire stack on their own infrastructure or use social.dev's cloud service, with a flexible architecture supporting custom authentication via OIDC, PostgreSQL databases, S3-compatible storage, and real-time WebSocket connections. The SDK includes starter templates for building full-stack chat apps, social platforms, and AI-powered experiences across web, mobile, and website-embedded use cases.
Target Audience
Primary customers are software developers and product teams building social or community-driven applications, including mobile app developers using React Native/Expo, web developers adding social features to existing sites, and startups seeking rapid deployment of full-stack social platforms.
Features
- Complete React Native SDK with pre-built screens, customizable UI components, and hooks for authentication, feeds, profiles, and real-time updates
- Modular server architecture that integrates into existing Express.js servers or runs standalone, with optional use of individual features
- Configurable infrastructure layer supporting PostgreSQL, S3-compatible storage, background runners, webhooks, and built-in caching
- AI profile and experience features that connect user profiles with LLMs for engaging conversational interactions
- Template library for full-stack chat apps, social platforms, and AI applications across web, mobile, and website-embedded deployments
- Open-source MIT-licensed framework with a plugin marketplace for integrating LLMs, payment processors, analytics tools, and decentralized protocols