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Lorant One

Supa Social - Self-host your community platform

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Supa Social is a production-ready, self-hosted social platform built with Once UI and Supabase. It’s a fully functional application you can deploy in minutes — complete with authentication, profiles, followers, roles, moderation, notifications, and a flexible feed supporting multiple post formats. What you can build with it: • A decentralized micro-community • A customer space around your product • An internal hub for your company • A monetized niche network • A builder ecosystem

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Lorant One
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Hi everyone 👋 Lorant here, founder of Once UI. Supa Social started as an experiment. We were building templates with real functionality baked in — not just visuals. Over time, those experiments evolved into something bigger: a fully reproducible, self-contained application that we could actually run ourselves. That’s how the [Dopler Hub](https://hub.dopler.app) was born — our own builder space powered by Supa Social. What we realized is this: AI makes it easy to generate code. It does not make it easy to maintain systems. Most builders don’t need another prototype. They need a foundation they can host, monetize, and evolve without rebuilding authentication, moderation, roles, feeds, and infrastructure every time. Supa Social is our answer to that. If you’re building a micro-community, launching a product that needs a customer space, or simply want to own your platform instead of renting it — I’d genuinely love to hear what you’d build with it. Happy to answer anything about architecture, monetization, roadmap, or how we run it ourselves.
Abhinav Ramesh

Nice one! Will check it out...does it also support APIs from other platforms like X?

Lorant One
Maker

@abhinavramesh Thank you! No, it's completely standalone :) You own / store data in Supabase.

Jason Dunn

This looks great! The design is impeccable and the ability to go from an idea to launching a full-fledged community in a matter of minutes is pretty incredible. Good luck with the launch!

Lorant One
Maker

@jasonrdunn Thank you, we invest heavily in design for all of our projects, so it's a pleasure to hear it clicks!

Arwen

As someone who's building a social app myself (Spark — a conversation-first matching app), I know how painful it is to build auth, profiles, roles, and moderation from scratch. Having all of that ready out of the box with Supabase is a huge time saver. The self-hosted approach is smart too — data ownership is becoming a real concern for community builders. Quick question: how does it handle real-time messaging/notifications at scale? That's always the trickiest part of social platforms in my experience.

Lorant One
Maker

@sparkuu Yes, real-time interactions are the essence of modern social platforms. We implemented it via Supabase's realtime listeners, which makes operations cheap, since we don't poll by interval, but when new data is available :) Feel free to connect with me, happy to learn more about you platform and approach, I think both of us can learn from it!

Arwen

@lorant_one Thanks for the reply! Using Supabase's realtime listeners is a smart choice — much more efficient than polling. For Spark, I built a custom TCP-based messaging layer since we needed very low latency for our 10-minute timed chat feature. Would love to exchange notes sometime. Following you guys — excited to see where Supa Social goes!

Athan Zhang

Very cool! Curious how customizable the feed logic is?

Lorant One
Maker

@athanzhang It's centralized in a single file, so it's easy to edit, but needs a bit of technical understanding. Currently it weights publish date, comment count and reaction count, and we're looking forward to expose the weights and introduce more nuance, without turning it into a clickbait-algorithm :)

Taimur Haider

@lorant_one the point about AI making prototypes easy but not making systems maintainable is spot on.


A lot of builders are shipping quick MVPs now, but once a community starts growing the hard parts show up fast. Roles, moderation, data ownership, and long-term structure.

Interesting direction making this a reproducible foundation instead of just a UI template.


Curious about one thing.


Do you see Supa Social mainly powering independent communities, or as a ‘social layer’ that products embed inside their SaaS platforms?