Uraal – Social Network & Creator Monetization Platform

Uraal is a next-generation social networking platform built with Laravel and React. It provides a modern, app-like experience across desktop and mobile devices, combining social networking, creator monetization, blogging, messaging and marketplace features.

Launch your own social community where members can publish posts, share media, interact with other users, write articles, send messages and monetize their content.

Build your own social networking business

Uraal combines a social feed, professional blogging engine, digital and physical marketplace, creator subscriptions, advertising tools and real-time messaging in one platform.

Members can create premium content, receive earnings, promote posts through advertising campaigns and sell products through the integrated marketplace.

Creator monetization and advertising

The platform includes separate spending and earnings wallets, profile subscriptions, premium content, payment integrations and a self-service advertising system supporting CPC and CPM campaigns.

Modern communication and engagement

Users can interact through private and group messaging, media attachments, reactions, comments, polls, reposts and mentions. The platform also includes AI bots, RSS automation and progressive web app support.

Administration and customisation

Administrators can manage users, content, marketplace activity, payments, advertisements, translations and platform settings through the administration panel.

Uraal uses Laravel, PHP 8.3+, MySQL, React, TypeScript, Vite, Tailwind CSS 4 and Shadcn UI.

Important: Hosting requirements, payment gateway configuration and any additional infrastructure needed for features such as video compression should be reviewed before deployment.

• Dynamic Social Feed: Publish text, images, videos, GIFs, polls, quotes and reposts.

• Social Interactions: Likes, comments, mentions, bookmarks, smart link previews and personalised feeds.

• Professional Blogging: Rich-text editor, categories, SEO-friendly articles, cover images and hierarchical comment upvoting.

• Creator Monetization: Offer paid profile subscriptions and exclusive premium content.

• Dual Wallet System: Separate spending and earnings balances.

• Digital Marketplace: Sell downloadable products with chunked uploads.

• Physical Marketplace: Manage inventory, shipping, orders and seller verification.

• Real-Time Chat: Private and group messaging with media attachments, replies and emoji reactions.

• Advertising Network: User-created CPC and CPM campaigns with performance analytics.

• Admin Advertising: Manage AdSense and custom HTML/JavaScript ad placements.

• Payment Integrations: Stripe, PayPal, Paystack, SSLCommerz, YooMoney and other supported gateways.

• AI Bots and RSS: AI-powered personas and RSS-based automatic posting.

• Media Management: AWS S3 and Cloudflare R2 support, WebP optimisation and media lightbox.

• Security: Two-factor authentication, email OTP, social login, Turnstile CAPTCHA and dynamic API rate limiting.

• Progressive Web App: Installable experience for desktop, Android and iOS browsers.

• Admin Dashboard: User and content moderation, payment management, translation editor and XML sitemaps.

• Modern Technology: Laravel, React, TypeScript, Vite, Tailwind CSS 4 and Shadcn UI.

• PHP 8.3 or newer.

• MySQL 8.0+ or MariaDB 10.3+.

• Required PHP extensions: BCMath, Ctype, Fileinfo, JSON, Mbstring, OpenSSL, PDO, Tokenizer, XML, cURL and GD.

• Apache or compatible web server with the required rewrite configuration.

• Hosting environment suitable for Laravel and React-based application deployment.

• Writable application directories and database access.

• Payment gateway merchant accounts for enabling online payments.

• AWS S3 or Cloudflare R2 credentials if using external media storage.

• VPS with FFmpeg for the newly added video compression feature; automatic fallback is available when compression is unavailable.

• Follow the included Documentation/index.html installation guide.

Installation: Upload and extract the contents of the MainFiles folder into your web root, open your domain's /install route and follow the browser-based setup wizard.