Ask HN: Want to set up a niche social network

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I want to setup a social network for a very particular niche Im interested in. Ideally something with web, IOS and Android apps for sharing chat and images. So rather than reinvent the wheel Im wondering what hosted, open source or otherwise solutions are out there people might know of? Please no comments about why I want to setup another "facebook for cats"! I have a very specific idea Im looking at.

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Our open source project has a significant social network component, one option could be to use it as a base and get rid of the stuff you don't need. Not sure how closely it fits your use-case.

https://hummingbird.me/users/vikhyat

https://github.com/hummingbird-me/hummingbird https://github.com/hummingbird-me/hummingbird

Buddypress paired with Wordpress on WPEngine should give you a start. None of the commercial solutions have the expandability that is found in buddypress.

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