🚀 Launch Your Own Social Network in Under 5 Minutes

Tired of paying monthly fees for bloated SaaS platforms you'll never truly own? VYRAL is a complete, production-ready social media platform packed into a single PHP file with SQLite — no MySQL, no frameworks, no DevOps nightmares. Upload it, configure a few lines, and your community is live. It's that simple.

Whether you're building a niche community, a private network for your team, a Twitter(X)/Bluesky alternative, or a white-label social platform for clients — VYRAL gives you 100% ownership, zero recurring costs, and unlimited users. One purchase. Forever yours.

✨ Why VYRAL Stands Out

🔥 Single-File Architecture — The entire platform lives in one clean index.php file. No Composer, no npm, no webpack, no build steps. If you can upload a PHP file, you can run VYRAL.

⚡ SQLite-Powered — Zero database server setup. No MySQL, MariaDB, or PostgreSQL required. Your entire platform runs on simple, portable database files.

🛡️ Security-First — CSP headers, CSRF protection, 4-layer bot defense (no CAPTCHA needed), IP/user banning, disposable email blocking, and bad-word auto-flagging — all built in.

🧠 Smart Trending Algorithm — A precomputed, time-decaying score weighing likes, comments, views, and hashtag relevance, with personalised interest-based feed boosting for every user.

🌍 Multi-Language Ready — Ships with English, Spanish, French, and Japanese translations. Add any language by creating a single PHP file.

📲 PWA-Ready — Users can install your platform as a native app on their phones. Zero app-store fees. Zero approval headaches.

🎯 Perfect For

• Entrepreneurs launching a niche social network or online community.
• Agencies selling white-label social platforms to clients.
• Startups wanting a Twitter/Bluesky alternative without giving away equity.
• Creators building a paid community around their audience.
• Developers who want a clean, hackable codebase to customise freely.
• Companies needing a private internal social platform.
• Anyone escaping the SaaS subscription trap.

👉 DEMO

💬 Core Social Features

• ✅ Posts with rich-text formatting (bold, italic, simple markdown)
• ✅ Comments with likes, replies, and mentions
• ✅ Likes on both posts and comments with real-time counts
• ✅ Follow / Unfollow with private account support
• ✅ @Mentions with auto-linking and notifications
• ✅ #Hashtags with search, trending, and discovery
• ✅ Bookmarks for saving posts for later
• ✅ Post Pinning on user profiles
• ✅ View Counters with anti-abuse protection
• ✅ Post Sharing with internal quote-post embedding
• ✅ Real-Time Notifications with customisable preferences

📊 Polls & Interactive Content

• ✅ Create timed polls with up to 4 options
• ✅ Live results with animated percentage bars
• ✅ Auto-close at expiry
• ✅ Creator cannot self-vote (authentic engagement)

🔥 Smart Feed Algorithms

• ✅ Trending Feed —Smart scoring
• ✅ Personalised Home Feed — Followed users + interest-based boosting
• ✅ Pure Explore Feed — Discovery without social graph bias
• ✅ Precomputed scores with incremental updates (no slow queries)

🎨 Design & UX

• ✅ 8 Beautiful Themes included out of the box
• ✅ Dark & Light Mode with auto-detection
• ✅ Fully Responsive — mobile, tablet, and desktop
• ✅ PWA Support — installable as a native app
• ✅ Custom Themes — change the look with a single CSS file

🔍 Search & Discovery

• ✅ Full-text search across posts, users, and hashtags
• ✅ Auto-saved search history (last 20 queries)
• ✅ Type-ahead suggestions
• ✅ Trending hashtag discovery in sidebar

🛡️ Admin & Moderation

• ✅ Full Admin Panel with platform analytics
• ✅ 30-Day Charts — users, posts, comments
• ✅ User Management — ban, verify, promote to mod/admin
• ✅ Content Reports Queue with resolve/dismiss/delete actions
• ✅ Bad-Word Auto-Flagging with customisable word list
• ✅ IP Tracking for abuse prevention
• ✅ Sponsored Posts Manager — 3 rotating ad slots built-in

📈 User Analytics Dashboard

• ✅ Total reach (views on all posts)
• ✅ Engagement metrics (likes received)
• ✅ Follower count
• ✅ Interactive 30-day trend charts

🌐 Internationalization (i18n)

• ✅ English, Spanish, French, Japanese included
• ✅ Add new languages with one PHP file
• ✅ In-app language switcher
• ✅ Full fallback safety

🔗 Rich Media Embeds

• ✅ YouTube, Vimeo, Twitch, Spotify auto-embeds
• ✅ Image and GIF previews
• ✅ Open Graph link preview cards (server-side fetched & cached)
• ✅ Internal post/comment cross-linking with quote embeds

🤖 4-Layer Bot Protection

• ✅ No CAPTCHA services required — everything is self-hosted

✉️ Email System

• ✅ 4 Providers — Mailjet, Brevo (Sendinblue), MailerSend, native PHP mail()
• ✅ Email verification on signup
• ✅ Password reset flow
• ✅ Daily/weekly notification digests (via cron)
• ✅ Report alerts to admins
• ✅ Beautiful HTML email templates
• ✅ Disposable email blocking (auto-updated blocklist)

🚫 Content Moderation

• ✅ User reporting (spam, harassment, hate speech, misinformation, NSFW)
• ✅ NSFW post tagging with content warnings
• ✅ Post locking (freeze comments)
• ✅ Bad-word auto-report system
• ✅ Email notifications to admins

👤 Rich User Profiles

• ✅ Bio, birthdate, location (country selector), timezone
• ✅ Pinned posts
• ✅ Private accounts (followers-only)
• ✅ Verified badge system
• ✅ Username change cooldown
• ✅ Activity history log
• ✅ Verified users get system perks

⚙️ User Settings

• ✅ Notification preferences (toggle per type)
• ✅ Email digest frequency
• ✅ Blocked users management
• ✅ Password change
• ✅ Email change with re-verification
• ✅ Privacy toggle
• ✅ Theme selection

🔒 Privacy & Security

• ✅ Private accounts (followers-only visibility)
• ✅ Bidirectional user blocking
• ✅ Timed IP banning
• ✅ Timed user banning
• ✅ CSRF protection with token rotation
• ✅ Content Security Policy headers
• ✅ X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options
• ✅ Secure session cookies
• ✅ Rate limiting (per IP + per session)

⚡ Performance Engineered

• ✅ SQLite WAL mode for concurrent reads during writes
• ✅ Prepared statement caching
• ✅ In-memory user/post/engagement caching
• ✅ Batched prefetch queries
• ✅ Precomputed trending scores
• ✅ Probabilistic background cleanup
• ✅ Configurable PRAGMA tuning for VPS/Dedicated deployments
• ✅ Handles thousands of concurrent users on a modest VPS

💰 Monetisation Ready

• ✅ Sponsored Posts System — 3 configurable dynamic ad slots
• ✅ Automatic Rotation
• ✅ Dedicated admin manager
• ✅ Desktop sidebar ad banner (300×300px)
• ✅Start earning from day one

PHP: 8.3+ / With pdo_sqlite, mbstring, openssl, curl
SQLite: 3.40+ / Bundled with PHP
Web Server: Any Apache, Nginx, LiteSpeed, Caddy
Disk Space: ~50 MB / Grows with your community
RAM: 128 MB+ / 256 MB+ recommended for production

✅ No MySQL, MariaDB, or PostgreSQL required. Everything runs on SQLite.

🚀 Installation (Under 5 Minutes)

1. Upload the files to your web server.
2. Secure the db/ folder with the included Nginx (if used) rules (full README provided).
3. Configure the BASIC CONFIGURATION block in index.php (app name, email, throttles etc.)
4. Visit your domain — the first registered account automatically becomes admin.

That's it. No command line. No build tools. No database setup. Just upload and go.