Leave everyone. Don't leave yourself.
A private social network where you document your life without an audience — and share your story only when you're ready.
🌐 Live Demo • 💡 Vision • ✨ Features • 🎯 Use Cases • 🚀 Getting Started
Today's social media encourages people to document life for an audience. Every photo, story, and post is influenced by likes, comments, followers, and algorithms.
Solus removes the audience.
It gives you a familiar social-media experience — post stories, photos, videos, thoughts, and memories — but everything is private by default. The goal isn't to disconnect from life. It's to disconnect from the pressure of being watched.
Instagram asks: "What will people think?" Solus asks: "What do you think?"
Modern social media has shifted from self-expression to performance. People ask themselves:
- Will this get likes?
- Is this aesthetic enough?
- What will people think?
Eventually, people stop living moments naturally and start creating moments for social media. Some deactivate every account because they need peace — but then lose the habit of documenting their lives altogether.
There is no product that lets people continue documenting their lives without an audience. Until now.
Solus is a personal social network. Everything works like a familiar social media app, except there is no audience.
- 🔒 Private by default — No one can discover, follow, like, comment, or message
- 📸 Post freely — Photos, videos, captions, stories, memories
- 📅 Personal timeline — Your life's story, for your eyes only
- 🌍 Share when ready — Optionally publish posts, journeys, or your entire profile
- ⏰ Scheduled publishing — Set a future date; visitors see "This page will become public on [date]"
- 🔗 Secret links — Share with specific people before going public
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Private Profile | Everything you post is private by default |
| Photo & Video Posts | Upload and caption your moments |
| Stories | Ephemeral content, just for you |
| Personal Timeline | A beautiful chronological record of your life |
| Journey Mode | Group posts into themed journeys ("30 Days in Ladakh") |
| Optional Sharing | Publish a post, a journey, or your whole profile |
| Scheduled Publishing | Auto-publish on a future date |
| Shareable Links | Send private links to friends & family |
| Time Capsules | Post today, unlock after 30 days / 1 year / 10 years |
| Letters to Future Self | Write messages to your future self |
| Offline Mode | Works offline, syncs later — perfect for mountains |
✦ Private by default ✦ No followers
✦ No likes ✦ No comments
✦ No algorithms ✦ No pressure
✦ No performance ✦ Just memories
| Who | How They Use Solus |
|---|---|
| 🏔️ Solo Travelers | Document a 45-day Nepal trip privately, publish "45 Days Across Nepal" later |
| 🚀 Startup Founders | Record wins, failures, product screenshots — publish "Building XYZ from Day 1" at launch |
| 💪 Fitness Journeys | Daily selfies, weight, meals — publish "Lost 30 kg" after 6 months |
| 📚 Students | Track JEE/UPSC/CAT prep privately, publish the journey after selection |
| 🎹 Learners | Piano Day 1 → Day 300 — one beautiful timeline |
| 👶 Parents | Baby milestones — private forever, or publish after years |
| 🧘 Retreats | Meditation & yoga retreat reflections, publish later |
| 💔 Healing | Private voice notes & thoughts — publish "365 Days After My Breakup" when ready |
| Solus | ||
|---|---|---|
| Designed for | Attention | Reflection |
| Rewards | Engagement | Authenticity |
| Default | Public | Private |
| Purpose | Share your life | Keep your life |
| Order | Experience → Edit → Post | Experience → Capture → Reflect → Share later |
Here is what we are building next on the Solus development roadmap:
- 👤 AI Face Recognition & Auto-Separation: Local face scanning to automatically separate and group people in photos.
- 📖 AI Auto-Collections & Album Creator: Smart curation of posts into styled albums using tag clusters, dates, or geo-locations.
- 🧠 Introspective AI Comments & Likes: A reflective AI representing your subconscious self that self-comments to promote writing depth.
- ⏳ Time-Locked Memories & Vaults: Write letters to your future self and seal them under a custom temporal lock.
- 🗺️ Subconscious Mood Landscapes: Semantically analyze post content to map abstract emotional landscapes over time.
- 🧘 Offline Sanctuary & Sync Rituals: An offline-first local buffer that runs relaxing breathing exercises during cloud synchronization.
Solus is an open-source project and we gladly welcome contributions from developers, designers, and writers!
Whether you want to build features, fix UI bugs, or improve copywriting:
- Check out our Contributing Guidelines to get set up locally.
- Follow the architectural guidelines specified in AGENTS.md.
- Create a fork, make changes, and open a Pull Request!
- Framework: Next.js 16 (App Router)
- Styling: Tailwind CSS 4
- Language: TypeScript 5
- Deployment: Cloudflare Workers via OpenNext
- Runtime: Edge-first, globally distributed
- Bun (recommended) or Node.js 18+
# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/SH20RAJ/solus.git
cd solus
# Install dependencies
bun install
# Start development server
bun run devOpen http://localhost:3000 to see the app.
bun run previewbun run deployDeploys to solus.shraj.workers.dev.
Solus is a private social network where you can document your life without an audience and choose to share your story only when you're ready.
The internet taught us to perform for others. It's time to live for ourselves.
Social media made us perform for others. Solus helps people live for themselves.
Made with 💜 by SH20RAJ