Contact person: Community Site with Chat & Uploads

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Location: Gurgaon, India

Budget: Recommended by industry experts

Time to start: As soon as possible

Project description:
"I need a full-featured, responsive community-driven platform built from the ground up. The core experience revolves around rich user profiles, a searchable member directory, picture uploads that render beautifully on both desktop and mobile, and lively discussion forums backed by real-time group chats.

For navigation and onboarding, an AI chat assistant should be embedded so newcomers can quickly learn how to use every feature. While private messaging could be added later, the first milestone is seamless group chat rooms tied to each forum topic.

Visual appeal matters just as much as functionality, so you’ll have room to shape a clean, modern aesthetic—fonts, colour palette, and layouts that match the brand guidelines I’ll provide. Think flexible theme components rather than a rigid template; I want to be able to refresh the look seasonally without rewriting code.

An external API provides the master list of interest areas; your build should pull that feed, create or update categories automatically, and surface them within the UI. I’ll supply the API docs and keys.

Deliverables
• Fully responsive website deployed to my host or a staging server
• Modular front-end design with editable themes
• Secure user auth, avatar support, and profile fields
• Discussion forums linked to real-time group chat
• AI chat assistant for site guidance (OpenAI or comparable model)
• Photo upload pipeline with image optimisation and moderation hooks
• API integration that populates and maintains category structure
• Clear hand-over documentation and a short video walk-through of admin controls

I’m comfortable with mainstream stacks—Node/React, Laravel/Vue, Django, or similar—so propose whichever you work fastest in, provided the final product is maintainable and well-documented. Let me know how you’d break the job into milestones and the estimated turnaround for each." (client-provided description)