Introduction

Dastyare Social — CS is the open-source creator studio. Publish posts (text, image, video, voice, file), ephemeral stories, and vertical Shorts — with a creator admin panel, REST API, webhooks, browser push and an MCP server for AI agents. Self-hosted: your server, your database, your data.

• Repo: https://github.com/dastyare-social/DS-CS
• Image: dastyaresocial/ds-cs:latest
• Port: 8729
• Demo: https://cs.dastyare.social — login hey@dastyare.social / 123456789

What you get

• Home feed with pinned posts, stories viewer and newsletter CTA
• Explore page: Shorts (vertical video) + Threads (text and media)
• Creator admin at /os: create, edit, pin, delete, S3 media uploads
• REST API with Scalar docs at /docs and spec at /openapi.json
• Outbound webhooks, browser push notifications, SEO + llms.txt, MCP server

Start here

1. Quick start — running in minutes with one Docker command.
2. Installation — every method: Docker, from-source, VPS.
3. Environment variables — every variable, Essential or Optional, and how to get its value.
4. Deploy on Vercel — three steps: install, push to GitHub, deploy.

Support

Questions or stuck on a step? Email hey@dastyare.social. Bug reports go to https://github.com/dastyare-social/DS-CS/issues.