OHS Social - A Whole Social Network With No Database. Full Video Chat Room Hosting. Built to Run on Plain Shared Hosting.

Brian Noland — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 07:53:35 +0000

OHS Social — A Whole Social Network With No Database, Built to Run on Plain Shared Hosting. A Sims-Style Life Sim and an Open-World 3D Game Built Right In.

TL;DR — The complete source for a retro-style social network (cam rooms, custom profiles, a virtual economy) that runs on plain shared hosting with no database — flat-file JSON storage, no MySQL, no build step. Bundled free: Little Life, a Sims-style life sim with a live multiplayer world, and Mad City, an open-world 3D crime sandbox that runs in the browser. Try it, no signup → ohs.social

Every community site dies in the same place. You've got the idea, the domain, cheap hosting — then the software demands a database server, a VPS, a dependency stack, and a free afternoon. The project never survives the gap between "I want a community" and "first I have to become a sysadmin."

OHS Social closes that gap. It uses flat-file JSON storage instead of a database, so it drops straight onto plain shared hosting — the cheap kind that chokes on every other social script. It builds its own data files and folders on first run: upload, open the setup wizard, done. No MySQL, no build step, no external services.

	Typical social platform	OHS Social
Database	MySQL / Postgres required	None — flat-file JSON
Hosting	VPS / managed	Plain $5 shared hosting
Install	Stack + dependencies	Upload, run setup wizard
Life sim + 3D game	Never	Both built in, free
Monetization	Build it yourself	Runs through your PayPal

Click around a real working copy before you buy — no signup, saving disabled so you can explore safely, click any demo link on this page to try it LIVE! → ohs.social

Here's what actually ships.

🏡 Little Life — the flagship, included free

A full Sims-style life simulator plus a Habbo-style multiplayer world, built into your site. No other social script ships anything like it.

Members design a character and furnish an isometric home from 195+ hand-drawn animated items, build skills and careers, and raise families across generations — marriage, kids, school, inheritance — and can switch control to any family member. It's fully live with no page refreshes: free-will autonomy, daily weather, day/night skies, per-player game speed. The shared World is live multiplayer — a Plaza, a neon Club, a Pool Lounge — where members' characters walk around together, chat in speech bubbles, and use public furniture. A premium token furniture shop and money packs run through your PayPal wallet, so it's a revenue stream too.

🌆 Mad City — open-world 3D game, included free

A full open-world 3D driving and crime sandbox running right in the browser — no plugins, no downloads. Built on WebGL with original assets and code.

Roam a low-poly night city on foot or in a dozen vehicles. Aim-assisted gunplay, jackable cars, weapons, and an empire to grow: buy businesses and properties that pay passive income, climb a 30-mission story chain, and keep earning with 13 repeatable side jobs — chases, heists, deliveries, survival waves. Cash, inventory, properties and progress all save server-side per member as flat JSON. The full-screen renderer does bloom, dynamic lighting and neon signage, and auto-tunes its graphics to keep weak machines smooth. Flip it on in Admin → Mods.

🐾 Pet World — and a real revenue stream

A whole virtual-pet game baked in: 40 collectible creatures across 5 stat types and 6 rarity tiers, including 10 hybrid species you can only get by breeding the right pair, each with hand-drawn animated art. Adopt, feed, level, and breed in the Breeding Den; run daily quests, a battle arena, an exotic breeder, and a player market. You sell tokens for real money through PayPal — you set the packages and prices — and players spend them adopting, breeding and upgrading. The token wallet is shared with Little Life and the Digital Items Store.

📹 Cam rooms, marketplace, monetization — all built in

Real browser-to-browser WebRTC video chat, up to 20 cams per room, with text chat, image/GIF/YouTube sharing, per-room mods, homepage featuring, and embeddable rooms you can drop on any site. A member-to-member Marketplace with photo listings, direct PayPal between buyer and seller, and paid "featured" bumps that pay you. And every money path — ad slots, token wallet, marketplace bumps, donor program, premium mods — runs through your PayPal.

🧱 The full social stack

Customizable profiles with a drag-and-arrange layout builder, friends and Top 8, private messages, bulletins, guestbooks, time capsules, 20 readability-audited themes, and a complete admin panel. The games are built in too: 8-Ball Pool (versus a friend or the computer at three difficulties) and an Arcade with seven board games — Connect Four, Checkers, Reversi, Gomoku, Tic-Tac-Toe, Battleship and Chess — all playable inside your site. Plus a Game Mod Kit with developer docs for building your own.

💵 What it costs

Lite — $50. The MySpace-style social network on its own: full social stack, layout builder, 5 themes, admin panel. No cam rooms, no games. Upgrade any time and keep all your data.
Source License — $300. The complete platform, one site: all features, all the built-in games, Little Life and Mad City free, the Game Mod Kit, and free updates for life.
Buy It All — $750. White-label (no footer credit) with every mod pre-bundled — Pet World, Thrill Park Tycoon, Digital Items Store, Theme Builder + Donor Program, Casino, PulsePoll and more. Buying separately runs ~$950, so you save $200.

Single-site license, no DRM, no phone-home, free updates for life. Needs PHP 8.0+ and Apache or Nginx — that's it.

👉 Try every edition live, no signup → ohs.social

DEMOS ARE ON THE 💰 Buy This Script PAGE!

DEV Community: Brian Noland