Sockety – Realtime Communication SaaS Platform

Sockety is a complete realtime communication platform that lets you launch your own profitable “realtime-as-a-service” business — your own self-hosted alternative to Pusher and Ably. Your customers sign up, create Apps, get instant API credentials, and connect over WebSockets for pub/sub messaging on public, private, and presence channels. With subscription plans, per-App usage limits, multi-region server management, and built-in billing, you can start charging for realtime infrastructure from day one — no coding required.

Whether you’re starting a realtime infrastructure business, providing WebSocket messaging to your own app portfolio, or offering a managed Pusher-compatible service to developer clients, Sockety provides everything you need to launch, monetize, and scale a professional realtime messaging platform — without writing a single line of code.

WHAT YOU GET

Everything you need ships in one package. Upload it to your server, run the automated installer, and your platform is live. You get:

• A complete customer-facing website with a customizable landing page
• A customer dashboard where users create realtime Apps and view usage
• A powerful admin panel to manage the entire business — users, billing, servers, and plans
• Pre-built WebSocket server binaries ready to run on Linux — no compilation needed
• Documentation, installer, and automated setup scripts

HOW YOU MAKE MONEY IN 3 STEPS

1. Create subscription plans — Set pricing tiers (monthly, yearly, or lifetime) with different usage allowances and feature access.
2. Customers sign up and subscribe — They pay through integrated gateways (Bank Transfer and PayPal included; Stripe and others available as premium add-ons).
3. You keep 100% of revenue — Self-hosted means no per-message fees to a third party. Your margins grow as your customer base grows.

WHY CHOOSE SOCKETY FOR YOUR REALTIME MESSAGING BUSINESS

• Pusher-Compatible by Design — Your customers can use standard tools they already know (pusher-js, Laravel Echo, the Pusher PHP SDK) — no retraining needed. They can migrate off Pusher or Ably with a simple credentials swap and no code rewrite.
• High-Performance WebSocket Engine — The realtime layer is a single compiled binary that handles thousands of concurrent connections on modest hardware. Pre-built binaries for Linux (AMD64/ARM64) and macOS are included — no Go toolchain required.
• Multi-Region Server Management — Deploy multiple WebSocket server nodes across regions and manage them all from the admin dashboard. Plans route their Apps to specific servers with an automatic fallback chain for resilience.
• Subscription Business Built In — Tiered plans with monthly, yearly, and lifetime billing, integrated payment gateways, PDF invoices, and a referral program. The recurring-revenue model is wired up and ready.
• Plan-Based Usage Limits — Turn technical limits into pricing levers: max Apps, connections per App, channels per App, message size, daily message volume, plus feature gates for presence channels, client events, webhooks, and the event log. Enforced both in the control plane and at the WebSocket layer.
• Self-Hosted & Fully Owned — You run the entire stack. No per-message fees to a third party, no vendor lock-in, no usage caps you don’t control. Your customers’ realtime traffic stays on your infrastructure.
• Multi-Language Ready — Professional internationalization with English and Japanese included out of the box, and an admin tool to add more locales. Expand to global developer markets.
• No-Code Management — A complete admin dashboard manages servers, plans, users, subscriptions, transactions, payment plugins, languages, the landing page, and referrals — all point-and-click.

BUILT-IN MONETIZATION & REVENUE FEATURES

• Subscription Plans — Define unlimited tiers with monthly, yearly, and lifetime billing cycles. Each plan carries its own WebSocket usage limits, feature flags, and a primary + fallback WebSocket server assignment.
• Plan Usage Limits as Pricing Levers — Turn technical limits into pricing tiers: max_apps, max_connections_per_app, max_channels_per_app, max_message_size_kb, max_messages_per_day, and event-log retention days. Higher tiers unlock presence channels, client events, and webhooks.
• Multiple Payment Gateways — Bank Transfer and PayPal are included out of the box. Stripe, Paystack, Razorpay, Crypto.com Pay, and YooKassa are available as premium add-on plugins. The plugin architecture makes adding gateways straightforward.
• PDF Invoices — Locale-aware, RTL-aware, and theme-aware invoice PDFs are generated automatically and available to customers from their billing page.
• Referral Program — A built-in affiliate system rewards customers with monetary account credit for bringing in new sign-ups — turning your existing user base into a growth channel.
• Transaction Ledger — Every payment, subscription change, and referral credit is recorded and reviewable from the admin dashboard, with transaction detail pages for support and reconciliation.