Everything you need to launch a working Community Platform — prioritized by impact, sequenced by complexity. Built for Community managers, course creators, brands, and entrepreneurs building private member communities who want to ship fast and own everything.
Not all features are equal. This checklist separates what you must launch with from what can wait — so you ship faster without cutting corners that matter.
Launch blockers — build these first
Rich member profiles with bios, skills, and searchable member directory
Organized spaces (like channels) with nested threads, reactions, and rich text
Create and RSVP to community events with timezone support and video integration
Free and paid tiers with Stripe. Restrict access to premium spaces per tier.
High value — ship in week 2
Real-time 1:1 and group messaging between members
Award badges for contributions, streak tracking, and leaderboards
Manage members, moderate content, track engagement analytics
Post-launch polish and extras
This checklist follows the 80/20 rule: the "Must Have" features deliver 80% of the user value with 20% of the total effort. Every item in the must-have column was chosen because it:
Solves the core problem Community managers, course creators, brands, and entrepreneurs building private member communities face every day
Creates a complete user loop from onboarding to core action to outcome
Enables you to charge for the product or validate willingness to pay
Gives you meaningful metrics to improve with in v2
Can be shipped in 2–3 weeks with LaraCopilot
"The goal is not to build a perfect product. The goal is to build the minimum product that proves your assumption and earns your first users."
For a Community Platform, that means shipping authentication, the core data model, one complete user workflow, and a way to collect feedback. Everything else is version 2. LaraCopilot makes this fast.
Use these ready-made prompts to build each must-have feature. Paste them directly into LaraCopilot and get production-ready code.
Build me a private community platform with member profiles, discussion spaces, events, direct messaging, and paid membership tiers via Stripe
Feature: Feature
Add feature to my community platform. Include full CRUD, form validation, policy-based authorization, and a responsive Tailwind UI.
Feature: Feature
Add feature to my community platform. Include full CRUD, form validation, policy-based authorization, and a responsive Tailwind UI.
Feature: Feature
Add feature to my community platform. Include full CRUD, form validation, policy-based authorization, and a responsive Tailwind UI.
Feature: Feature
Add feature to my community platform. Include full CRUD, form validation, policy-based authorization, and a responsive Tailwind UI.
Here's how to sequence your Community Platform build across 2–3 weeks using LaraCopilot. Follow this order and you'll have a shippable product every step of the way.
This checklist tells you what to build. LaraCopilot builds it. Paste any prompt above and get production-ready Laravel code — not a prototype, not a mockup. Real code you own.
Free to start. 100% code ownership. Launch in 2–3 weeks.