Build a Real-Time Social Media App with InsForge, MiniMax, and Next.js

Introduction In this tutorial, we will build a full-stack social platform where users post, like, repost, follow each other, get real-time notifications, and chat with an in-app AI assistant. Here is what we will be building: A Next.js frontend with a real-time feed, post composer, profile pages, notifications, explore, and an AI chat screen InsForge  as the backend platform, managing the database, auth, file storage, real-time pub/sub, and AI gateway from a single place MiniMax M2.7  via GitHub Copilot as the agent that builds the entire application through InsForge Agent Skills and MCP . Google Stitch for generating the design reference before the agent builds Deployment triggered from inside GitHub Copilot, with no manual steps outside the editor By the end, you will have a working social platform template you can fork and adapt to whatever you are building next. Let's get started. What Is InsForge InsForge is an open-source backend platform that bundles a Postgres database, a REST