Community social platform · Production-style portfolio build
Yapster
A social product built around communities, not a toy feed. A community-first social platform with publishing, threaded discussion, realtime messaging, moderation, discovery and permission-aware backend rules.
THE PROBLEM
What this build had to prove.
Build enough of the social graph, community model and trust tooling for the product to feel like a platform rather than a collection of screens.
Yapster uses a typed React frontend with TanStack Query and a Supabase backend for Auth, PostgreSQL, Storage and Realtime. Permission-sensitive actions are reinforced with Row Level Security, while the frontend handles the product experience and cache orchestration.
Complex product UX
Realtime messaging
Moderation workflows
Database-level authorization
THE PRODUCT
Key capabilities.
Community creation, membership, rules, flairs and moderator roles
Text, image, link and poll publishing flows
Hot, new, top, following and discovery feeds
Voting, threaded comments, mentions, saved posts and reputation
Realtime one-to-one messaging with reactions and read receipts
Reports, queues, bans/mutes and dedicated moderation interfaces
Portfolio disclosure: Yapster is presented as a portfolio/product demonstration built by our team. It is not represented as commissioned client work.