How To Create Your Own Social Media App

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Core features to consider
when building own social network

Member profiles

Member profiles are critical for storing the user's data, displaying the activities inside the social network, content contribution, and make the user discoverable for networking.
Activity feed

Activity feed is important to keep the members informed about what's happening inside the site. Members can interact with the content (comments, upvotes, follow, etc.) based on interest.
Groups

Groups help you categorize content and foster connection between members with a shared passion. Hence, groups acts as one of the key channels for new member discovery.
Content organization

The user-generated content inside the social network must be categorized for efficient search. Also, the community layout must be customized to showcase the relevant content.
Data import and export

You must own the data generated in the community. That's why your social network must allow you to easily import and export all the data. Consider exporting members and content for advanced analysis.
Content types

Your social network should allow members to create one or two types of content at the very least. This content can Q&A, polls, short-updates exactly like Facebook or long-form articles like Medium.
Gamification

Gamification plays a key role in keeping members engaged and motivating them. For instance, you should have the mechanism to boost the reputation score of members based on good quality contribution.
Moderation

Keeping the social network free of spam and negative elements ensures that other members feel safe. Also, members should be empowered to report issues and the community guidelines must be enforceable.
Networking

There would be different types of networking -- a member might simply follow another member or form two members might form a mutual friendship. The network might have public membership or invite-only membership.
Reporting and analytics

It is important to keep track of the community health and get insights on the member behavior at a granular level. Ensure that your social network offers the capability to measure the key metrics.
Notification tools

There must be a robust tool to keep the members updated about the important activities in the community and their profile. Notifications can be sent via email, inside the site, messaging apps, and more.
Integration and automation

Your social network site must integrate with other popular third-party tools and expose a comprehensive API to build any kind of customization for smooth data transfer and process automation.

Comparison of solutions available
for building a social network like Facebook.

	SaaS	Self-hosted	CMS+Plugin	Custom-built solution
Customizability	Low to high	Medium to high	Medium to high	High
Cost	Low to medium	Medium	Low to medium	Very high
Time to market	Very low	Low to medium	Low to medium	High
Technical expertise needed	Low to medium	Medium to high	Medium to high	Very High
Data export	Available	Available	Available	Available
Security threat	Low	High	Very high	Low

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Why Tribe is the leading platform
for building social media sites like Facebook

Hosting and technical maintenance

Since the Tribe Platform is a cloud-based solution, as a community builder you don't have to worry about the hosting and technical details such as software maintenance, upgrades, database, etc. All you have to do is work on growing and moderating your community.

Customizable community platform

Tribe offers a fully customizable community platform that can be customized by selecting and showcasing different components of the community exactly the way you need. It can also completely adopt your brand guidelines to a pixel via CSS changes.

Machine-learned activity feed

Tribe offers a sophisticated and AI-driven activity feed that continuously learns from the member activity and behavior. This helps you deliver personalized content to the community members, boosts the engagement rate, and makes your community sticky.

Pricing

Tribe offers a forever free plan without any restrictions on the number of members and content. It also allows you to point your own custom domain. The premium plan unlocks additional features such as enterprise-grade SSO, priority support and advanced apps.

Apps and API

Tribe's community solution has been built with a vibrant ecosystem of apps and API that work together to extend the functionality of the core platform. There are 20+ built-in integrations with leading third-party tools to automate data flow and automate the existing process.

Data ownership

Any social network powered by Tribe completely owns the data as well. As a community owner, you can always export any content or member data. Many of our clients are already performing advanced text analytics on the user-generated content.

Modern design

Social networks powered by Tribe come with a beautiful and modern design that is based on modern user behavior and familiar features of social media. It can be completely customized according to your brand guidelines -- right from logo and color combinations to intricate CSS modifications.

Gamification

Tribe delivers configurable reputation management system with leaderboards, badges, and points to help you execute various gamification tactics. Also, the virtual currency system helps you influence member behavior by directly offering incentives.

Automated moderation

Tribe has powerful moderation functionality -- it allows you to blacklist list keywords and automatically puts the content with such keyword in the moderation queue. You can also define a minimum reputation score to allow members to post content. Of course, the members can always report any inappropriate content.

Integration in the buyer lifecycle

Based on the community flywheel concept, Tribe offers embeddable widgets that can be used to add different elements (e.g., discussions) of the community inside any other product or website. This helps add community touchpoints across the buyer lifecycle and improve customer experience.

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Highly engaging apps

Tribe offers some of the most compelling modern apps such as incentivization system via virtual currency that can be used to get desired user action, easy user management, and powerful analytics.

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