Orbit / Pulse — Social Network Vertical

• Area: Workspace
• Path: platform/orbit (engine) + platform/pulse (flagship product)
• Kind: White-label SaaS platform for building custom social networks

Role in the stack

Orbit is Koder's social network vertical — a multi-tenant engine for companies and communities that want to launch their own branded social platforms. It powers platform/pulse (Koder Pulse) as the flagship consumer app. Orbit is the engine (B2B), Pulse is the flagship (B2C).

The analogy Koder uses: WordPress vs WordPress.com; Mastodon vs Mastodon.social.

Features

• Multi-tenant — Each customer gets isolated data with custom domain and branding
• Posts — Text, images, videos with hashtags, likes, comments, reposts
• Stories — Ephemeral 24-hour content
• Feed — Hybrid fan-out algorithm (chronological + engagement ranking)
• Chat — Real-time DMs and group conversations via WebSocket
• Search — Full-text search for users, posts, hashtags
• Notifications — Real-time in-app, push, and email
• Moderation — Report system, content review, user bans
• Media — S3-compatible storage with upload/resize
• White-label — Custom domain, logo, colors, themes per tenant

Tech stack

• Backend: Go (chi router)
• Database: PostgreSQL (multi-tenant)

Primary couplings