Using Discourse as a social media platform

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Yet another topic surrounding the discussion of using Discourse as a social media platform!

Use Discourse as a prototype to build social network with an online library

Hi everyone. I am a CEO of a startup. I would like to build a social network and a online library connected each other. But for now I don’t have enough support and money to build it. So I was thinking… maybe I can use Discourse to grow a community and improve it as a prototype creating some plugin that can give a close feeling of what I want to build. To promote it and call my community to fund this project. So my questions: I need like a forum (Discourse) to organise posts by subjects. But …