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LifeRaft OS Public Docs

Plain-language product guides for understanding LifeRaft OS, choosing a package, planning add-ons, and preparing a launch without exposing licensed implementation material.

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Understand the platform before choosing a build path

These guides are written for customers, partners, and project owners. They explain what LifeRaft OS does, where it fits, how add-ons work together, what should be ready before implementation begins, and how self-hosted security responsibility is shared.

Product What LifeRaft OS Is What LifeRaft OS Is LifeRaft OS is a self-hosted community platform for projects that need more than a forum and less chaos than a stack of disconnected tools. It gives a... Packages Choosing The Right Starting Point Choosing The Right Starting Point Most LifeRaft OS projects should not begin by turning on every add-on. The best launch usually starts with the smallest package that supports... Launch Implementation Readiness Implementation Readiness A LifeRaft OS build is more than uploading files. The successful projects usually have a clear launch purpose, a defined member path, and a realistic... Add-ons Add-on Strategy Add-on Strategy LifeRaft OS add-ons are product workflows, not random extras. Each add-on should either help the project operate, earn revenue, support members, publish... Security Security and Responsible Operation Security and Responsible Operation LifeRaft OS is self-hosted software. Security therefore combines platform safeguards, timely LifeRaft OS updates, and the way each customer...

Choosing The Right Starting Point

Most LifeRaft OS projects should not begin by turning on every add-on. The best launch usually starts with the smallest package that supports the real customer workflow, then grows as the community proves what it needs.

Core Launch

Choose Core Launch when the immediate need is an owned member community with forums, profiles, pages, permissions, moderation, and admin control.

This fits early product communities, private groups, support communities, founder-led communities, and projects moving away from scattered social channels. It gives the project a stable home without forcing commerce, media, or advanced operations into the first release.

Business Community

Choose Business Community when the site needs a professional customer-facing layer: docs, support, forms, roadmaps, announcements, analytics, and protected resources.

This is a strong fit for software products, agencies, client portals, course operators, productized services, and companies that want customer conversations and support history on their own platform.

Creator Commerce

Choose Creator Commerce when the community also needs media, downloads, memberships, galleries, product pages, coupons, affiliate paths, or digital content workflows.

This path is useful for creators, artists, model agencies, resource sellers, marketplace operators, educators, and small media businesses that want community and commerce connected instead of separated.

Gaming Or Studio Community

Choose Gaming or Studio Community when a project needs forums, updates, support, entitlements, analytics, creator news, or bridge add-ons around a game, virtual world, or external client.

The public site explains the positioning and available bridge add-ons. Licensed packages carry the production connector details.

Operations And Private Access

Choose an operations-heavy package when the project needs agreements, approvals, analytics, funnels, forms, roadmaps, kanban boards, timeline records, policy acknowledgements, or private preview gates.

This is where add-ons like RLX NDA, RLX Funnels, RLX Analytics, RLX Forms, RLX Roadmap, RLX Kanban, and RLX Timeline work together. A member can be verified and still need to accept a specific agreement before accessing a private build, client area, beta, or protected resource.

A Practical Rule

If the first launch cannot explain why an add-on is needed, leave it off. LifeRaft OS is built so the project can activate more workflows later without abandoning the core member, content, and admin base.

Add-on Library

Product workflows that plug into the core

Each add-on page explains what the module helps a customer do, when it fits, and which related modules make it stronger. The catalog is meant to help buyers plan a practical build, not read internal developer notes.

Creator & Media RLX 3D Viewer RLX 3D Viewer Adds a browsable 3D model library with model detail pages, embedded viewers, uploads, and usage analytics. Why It Exists Adds a browsable 3D model... Gaming RLX Achievements RLX Achievements Achievement definitions, unlocks, progress tracking, and profile-ready community milestones. Why It Exists Achievement definitions, unlocks... Community RLX Activity RLX Activity is the unified activity feed for LifeRaft OS. It lets installs show important updates from core records, manual highlights, and optional add-on... Animal Care & Sanctuary RLX Adoptions Launch checklist • Configure visibility, permissions, statuses, retention, empty states, mobile views, and related integrations. • Test create, edit, structured... Platform RLX Advanced Core RLX Advanced Core is a compatibility control plane, not a second bootstrap. It centralizes optional capabilities that historically lived in core and gives them... Operations RLX Advertise RLX Advertise RLX Advertise turns community attention into managed sponsor inventory. It combines sellable placements, advertiser records, campaign scheduling... Commerce RLX Affiliate RLX Affiliate Adds affiliate offers, partners, tracked referral links, backend reporting, and optional RLX Analytics CTA/conversion events. Why It Exists Adds... Operations RLX Analytics RLX Analytics is the first-party reporting workspace for LifeRaft OS: traffic, accounts, events, attribution, devices, local GeoIP, campaigns, funnels, experiments... Animal Care & Sanctuary RLX Animal Care Launch checklist • Configure visibility, permissions, statuses, retention, empty states, mobile views, and related integrations. • Test create, edit, structured... Animal Care & Sanctuary RLX Animal Health Launch checklist • Configure visibility, permissions, statuses, retention, empty states, mobile views, and related integrations. • Test create, edit, structured... Animal Care & Sanctuary RLX Animal Sponsors Launch checklist • Configure visibility, permissions, statuses, retention, empty states, mobile views, and related integrations. • Test create, edit, structured... Animal Care & Sanctuary RLX Animals Launch checklist • Configure visibility, permissions, statuses, retention, empty states, mobile views, and related integrations. • Test create, edit, structured... Education & Learning RLX Assessments Standalone or course-linked quizzes, practical evaluations, attempts, scoring review, feedback, and completion evidence. Independent and connected use Workflow... Education & Learning RLX Assignments Standalone or course-linked assignments with learner submissions, due dates, evidence, review state, scores, and feedback workflows. Independent and connected use... Commerce RLX Audio Shop RLX Audio Shop is the optional commerce layer for music, stems, albums, sound effects, and audio bundles. RLX Music and RLX SoundFX remain the source of truth for... Publishing & Authors RLX Authors Professional author and pen-name profiles with biographies, specialties, links, publication relationships, and approval-controlled discovery. Independent and... Core Extensions RLX Automation RLX Automation When/then automation rules for forms, support, roadmap, alerts, webhooks, group changes, and audit logs. Why It Exists When/then automation rules for... Operations RLX Availability Shared scheduling and capacity for tables, tours, rooms, services, tickets, and events. Configure time zones, resources, blackout dates, waitlists, overbooking, and...