LifeRaft OSTM
Your community, content, and creative work in one owned home. Start with profiles and forums, then add brands, media, groups, commerce, and the workflows your project needs.
Start with profiles, forums, and a clear member journey. Add brand identities, galleries, Blogs, community groups, and commercial workflows as you need them. V5 brings a refreshed control center and more flexible page layouts.
Flexible visual systems
Build detailed themes without replacing accessible core layouts.
A guided Foundation-to-Export workflow joins per-surface visual composition, expanded Component Skins, responsive artwork roles, a reusable Artwork Library, cloneable decoration packs, Creator Mode actions, bilingual QA previews, rollback, and portable Visual Packs.
Responsive and dark-mode artwork
Portable Visual Packs
Administrator-only creator previews
Core system
The core is the part you should not have to rebuild every time.
Most projects eventually need the same foundation: accounts, posts, pages, permissions, admin tools, moderation, updates, and a way to organize people around the work. LifeRaft OS starts there, then keeps the specialized pieces optional so each build can stay focused.
LifeRaft OS is working, self-hosted software with a real core and modular add-ons. V5 builds on the production-used v4 foundation with a refreshed control center, flexible brand pages, and community-group workflows. The v5 development build is being tested before a wider release.
Start with the base
Members, forums, profiles, pages, permissions, moderation, and admin controls give the project a real home.
Add what earns its place
Commerce, media, support, analytics, gaming systems, studio bridges, and virtual-platform workflows stay modular.
Keep your audience close
Your content, support, announcements, downloads, and customer paths live on a system you control.
Mobile and handoff ready
Responsive layouts, touch-friendly controls, device handoff, and admin/mobile flows are part of the core experience.
Build for later
A small launch can become a shop, studio hub, creator network, support desk, or platform portal without starting over.
Why this exists
Because the community layer is usually treated like an afterthought.
Creators launch with social links. Studios ship with patch notes scattered across platforms. Merchants answer the same questions in five places. Communities grow, but the operating system around them never catches up. LifeRaft OS is built to be that missing layer.
For web admins
A cleaner way to launch and manage a real community site without stitching together a dozen unrelated products.
For creators
A place for members, content, sales, updates, support, and fan activity that belongs to the brand.
For studios
A web layer around games, worlds, tools, updates, entitlements, and customer support.
For operators
A modular system that can be sold, hosted, documented, updated, and expanded without remaking the core.
Optimized vertical systems
Start with a focused shape, then keep every module optional.
LifeRaft OS v5 brings independently activatable add-ons together into focused starting sets. The vertical changes the terminology, workflow, surfaces, and recommended modules—not who owns the core or whether an add-on can work by itself.
Travel & Hospitality
Five vertical-native add-ons cover inventory, accommodations, rate plans, guest journeys, and vouchers—then connect optionally to bookings, availability, payments, and analytics.
Explore this verticalAdventure & Marine
Five vertical-native add-ons cover field operations, vessels and craft, equipment rentals, waivers, and guides and crew for diving, kayaking, sailing, charters, and expeditions.
Explore this verticalProperty & Real Estate
Five vertical-native add-ons cover commercial properties, spaces and units, showings, leases, and due diligence for residential, commercial, and property-management workflows.
Explore this verticalPublic sector & field work
Connect policy reviews, evidence, dataset stewardship, publishing, and community information. Choose a small set for an office, field team, or isolated deployment.
Explore this verticalImplementation packs
Start with what you need now. Leave room for what comes next.
The point is not to buy every module on day one. The point is to avoid painting yourself into a corner. Core gives you the base; launch paths help shape the first useful version.
Launch the home base
Forum, members, profiles, pages, moderation, and admin controls.
Add the money/workflow layer
Commerce, subscriptions, support, analytics, media, studio tools, or platform-specific modules.
Grow without a rebuild
Keep expanding through add-ons instead of migrating to another system when the project gets serious.
Waitlist
Interested in LifeRaft OS? Tell me what you want to build.
LifeRaft OS is in soft launch/private preview. Start with your name and email. A short verification code keeps the waitlist useful for real projects, then you can share what you want to build.