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Create Your Own Social Network like Facebook

Build your social network with a cloud-based, modern, and fully customizable online community platform.

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 and regulatory compliance.

Content types

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.

Gamification

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.

Moderation

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.

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.

SaaSSelf-hostedCMS+PluginCustom-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

Tribe is empowering the new
generation of niche social networks

Cengiz

Co-creator @hubitat.org

When you request an answer or ask for a feature, they get back to you with their full dedication. You will partner with them.

Rachel

UCLA Health

We really like the team/customer support they are ready and willing to help us whenever we have questions or comments.

Rahul

Cloudnine Hospitals

I would recommend Tribe to anyone who wants to build a community from scratch with no-code software.

Amy Bryant

NEXL

Tribe is an efficient and effective way to build customer engagement. We are able to improve our product and help users.

Mariah

Schoolhouse

Tribe has allowed us to rapidly experiment with new ways to connect the learners and tutors and build a unified experience.

Kathleen W.

Tim Hortons® Foundation Camps

Ability to customize Tribe Platform to meet our campers’ and program needs has been critical as we have pivoted our programs.

Balaji

SurveySparrow

In a few days, we were able to launch our sleek, responsive, modern, flexible and powerful community portal with Tribe.

Andy N.

FutureSolve

I would highly recommend Tribe to organizations looking to strengthen their brand and build credibility with customers.

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.

Activity feed

Activity feed is designed to deliver personalized content to the community members, boost engagement, and make your community sticky.

Pricing

Tribe offers a free plan that supports up to 100 members and allows you to point your own custom domain. The Premium plan unlocks additional features such as SSO, allows you to use custom apps, and removes Tribe branding.

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.

#1 Social network software rated for
customizability, usability and business value

Modern design
for modern users

Tribe’s design philosophy is based on personalized and rich activity feed suitable for new-age social media.

Embeddable widgets

Deliver immersive social experience right inside your product or website with widgets. Some of the prominent examples can be enabling user engagement under the product listings and allowing members to share feedback without leaving your website or app.

Highly engaging apps

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

It’s your brand.
Fully customizable.

Tribe is a white-label platform. You can customize the platform to build any kind of community and change the design exactly based on the brand guidelines.

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