Omega Social Media

Social Core

• Posts & Reels — Text, image, and video posts plus vertical scrollable short-form reels, with likes, saves, pins, view and share counters.
• Stories — Story creation, viewing, and likes. A scheduled command clears expired stories every day.
• Comments — Threaded comments and replies with likes and pinning.
• Discover — Friend recommendations based on location and the social graph, plus discover, following, and nearby feeds.
• Messaging — Real-time chat over WebSockets (Laravel Reverb) with chat invites and group chats.
• Search — Users, posts, and hashtags.
• Moderation — Reports, user blocking, bans, and an admin panel for content and user management.

Monetization & Commerce

• Creator Payments — Stripe Connect integration for creator payouts, with a platform commission rate.
• Credits — Users buy credit packs, spend them on live-stream donations, and convert credits to cash within configurable limits.
• Withdrawals — Withdrawal requests processed through a queued transfer job.
• Live Streaming — Agora-powered broadcasts with live chat, donations, and a donation leaderboard.
• Marketplace — Product listings with categories, bookmarks, and publish/unpublish flow.
• Jobs Board — Job listings with categories, bookmarks, and publish/unpublish flow.
• Advertising — Business accounts create ad campaigns, pay for them via Stripe, and track clicks.

Platform & Operations

• Dual SPA — Separate desktop and mobile-optimized Vue single-page apps, plus Livewire-based business and auth pages.
• Mobile App — Expo SDK 54 app with Expo Router, NativeWind, secure token storage, push notifications, Agora live streaming, and Stripe payments.
• Social Login — Google, Apple, Facebook, Twitter, and Telegram providers, each enabled by an environment flag.
• Roles & Permissions — Spatie Permission with an admin role middleware and an admin panel under a configurable prefix.
• Media Processing — FFmpeg video and audio conversion and compression in queued jobs.
• Localization — Full Romanian language support (default locale ro) with a translations check command.
• Demo Mode — Optional demo mode with seeded demo accounts and a reset command.
• Monitoring — Laravel Horizon, Spatie Health, Sentry, Nightwatch, and a log viewer.

Languages

• PHP 8.2+
• JavaScript / Vue 3
• TypeScript (mobile app)

Backend

• Laravel 12
• Laravel Sanctum 4 (mobile API tokens)
• Laravel Reverb (WebSockets)
• Laravel Horizon 5 (Redis queues)
• Laravel Cashier 16 + Stripe PHP SDK
• Livewire 3
• Spatie Permission, Health, Backup

Web Frontend

• Vue.js 3 with Vue Router and Pinia
• Tailwind CSS 4
• PrimeVue 4
• Vite 5
• Laravel Echo + pusher-js
• Agora RTC Web SDK

Mobile

• Expo SDK 54, React Native 0.81, React 19
• Expo Router, NativeWind, Zustand, TanStack Query
• @stripe/stripe-react-native, react-native-agora

Tools

• Pest 3, Larastan, Laravel Pint, Laravel Dusk
• Laravel Envoy (deployment)
• FFmpeg (php-ffmpeg)