Social media platform: how to choose the best one?

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The main thing in the project of creating your own social network, in addition to a well-thought-out concept and a successfully occupied niche, is the choice of the right platform. It is not necessary to strive to compete with Facebook in order to get your share of the satisfying "pie" in this industry, but some elements of the strategy and, especially, technical solutions, can still be "copied". The most important element of a successful strategy, as the practice and experience of Zuckerberg has shown, is the right platform.

Price question

Social networks are not made on free "engines". And Zuckerberg didn't make his Facebook public software. The future world giant gained a chance to exist only after multimillion-dollar injections, and there are reasons for this. Social networks are a highly loaded resource designed for the simultaneous presence of millions of users in this space, which, of course, no free software can withstand.

The costs of creating your own social network, much more modest than Facebook, today range from $ 50 thousand and more (according to the "average check" for creating specialized social networks based on QSNE ). Without such a budget, you can not dream of your own successful virtual product.

Individual design

This is the best solution to the problem, although even a product with a very modest design, skinny content and a simple blog will still cost you at least four zeros (in dollars). To this should be added the cost of promotion and optimization, a competent strategy of which is a big part of success.

The solutions available today for building social networks:

PHPFox: an inexpensive option, has become the mainstay of many unpretentious social networks, the product costs about $ 100.

Oxwall: open source project, you can use it for free, at least a demo version of the product.

QSNE is the best solution

 SaaS platform Qwerty Social Network Engine is a combination of hardware and software complex and frameworks for creating highly loaded web projects, including horizontally scalable, multilingual social networks that can withstand huge traffic, while ensuring the highest level of security and protection of user data.

The cost of such a solution based on QSNE is from 30 to 150 thousand euros, the “average bill” of profile social networks based on QSNE is from 30 to 50 thousand euros. For complex cross-platform projects with a branched architecture, the average check can be about 150-200 thousand.

However, X Networks not only fulfills orders for the creation of powerful systems and social networks, but also offers co-financing (up to 70%) to those projects whose ideas they find interesting on mutually beneficial terms. In this case, the cost of creating your product can be reduced by more than half.

In addition, solutions based on QSNE:

• erase language boundaries - the platform works in 47 languages of the peoples of the world;
• integrate with different software platforms,
• adapt to any requirements,
• offer functional solutions based on neural networks and other technologies.

The platform is designed for scale-out projects, contains specialized solutions in case of attacks, uses artificial intelligence systems for data ranking and project administration, and has aggressive caching mechanisms.

X Networks has its own infrastructure. On the basis of QSNE solutions, dozens of successful world projects have been implemented - social networks, dating sites, payment systems, international portals and other interesting projects. One of the main directions of the company's activity is its own developments in the field of artificial intelligence - Qwerty AI - which are used in all the company's products.