Everything you need to launch a working Social Network — prioritized by impact, sequenced by complexity. Built for Founders building niche social networks, professional communities, and interest-based platforms who want to ship fast and own everything.
Not all features are equal. This checklist separates what you must launch with from what can wait — so you ship faster without cutting corners that matter.
Launch blockers — build these first
Rich profiles, follow/connect, friend requests, and bidirectional graph queries
Chronological and engagement-ranked feed with content from followed users
Text, image, video, and link posts with OpenGraph preview cards
Emoji reactions and threaded comments with mention notifications
High value — ship in week 2
Instant push notifications for likes, comments, follows, and mentions
Subscription tiers for premium content. Stripe Connect creator payouts.
Post-launch polish and extras
This checklist follows the 80/20 rule: the "Must Have" features deliver 80% of the user value with 20% of the total effort. Every item in the must-have column was chosen because it:
Solves the core problem Founders building niche social networks, professional communities, and interest-based platforms face every day
Creates a complete user loop from onboarding to core action to outcome
Enables you to charge for the product or validate willingness to pay
Gives you meaningful metrics to improve with in v2
Can be shipped in 3–5 weeks with LaraCopilot
"The goal is not to build a perfect product. The goal is to build the minimum product that proves your assumption and earns your first users."
For a Social Network, that means shipping authentication, the core data model, one complete user workflow, and a way to collect feedback. Everything else is version 2. LaraCopilot makes this fast.
Use these ready-made prompts to build each must-have feature. Paste them directly into LaraCopilot and get production-ready code.
Build me a niche social network with user profiles, social feed, following system, posts with images/video, reactions and comments, real-time notifications, and creator subscriptions
Feature: Feature
Add feature to my social network. Include full CRUD, form validation, policy-based authorization, and a responsive Tailwind UI.
Feature: Feature
Add feature to my social network. Include full CRUD, form validation, policy-based authorization, and a responsive Tailwind UI.
Feature: Feature
Add feature to my social network. Include full CRUD, form validation, policy-based authorization, and a responsive Tailwind UI.
Feature: Feature
Add feature to my social network. Include full CRUD, form validation, policy-based authorization, and a responsive Tailwind UI.
Here's how to sequence your Social Network build across 3–5 weeks using LaraCopilot. Follow this order and you'll have a shippable product every step of the way.
This checklist tells you what to build. LaraCopilot builds it. Paste any prompt above and get production-ready Laravel code — not a prototype, not a mockup. Real code you own.
Free to start. 100% code ownership. Launch in 3–5 weeks.