About the startup
Fora is a white-label community platform. It lets anyone, a creator, coach, brand, or educator launch their own fully branded online community without writing a single line of code. The key idea: every community built on Fora looks and feels like a standalone product. Members never see the Fora name. They see only the community owner's brand, their logo, their name, their domain. White-label means invisible infrastructure. A member joining "Design Community" has no idea the platform underneath is Fora. This is intentional and enforced throughout the entire product. The two people Fora serves: Community Owner - Creates and manages a community. Signs up on fora.so, builds their community, invites members, sets pricing. Sees analytics, settings, and full admin tools. Community Member - Joins a specific community. Accesses only that community's branded space. Never sees fora.so or anything suggesting a shared platform underneath Core Principles • No Fora branding is ever shown to members, not in emails, not in the UI, not in URLs • Each community lives on its own subdomain (e.g. magnates.fora.so) or custom domain • Owners get a separate dashboard on the main fora.so domain • All features, feed, courses, events, chat, leaderboard, are available to every community • Owners can monetise by charging members for access
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