Circles — Social Network (Laravel)

Circles is a self-hosted social network built with Laravel 11 and MySQL. Members register, post updates, follow each other, like and comment — a clean, Twitter-style experience you fully own. No SaaS fees, no monthly lock-in. Tailwind via CDN, custom authentication, no npm/Vite build step.

The feed shows posts from people you follow plus your own, with an inline composer. Posts can be liked, commented on and opened for the full thread. Profiles live at /{username} with post / follower / following counts and a follow button, and an Explore page helps members discover and search people.

Highlights

• Register/login with username, bio and coloured avatars.
• Following-based feed with composer, likes & comments.
• Public profiles at /{username} with follow button & counts.
• Explore & search people, ranked by followers.