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Hey folks! I'm Marcelo, one of the co-founders. Sywork is a live streaming platform for illustrators and digital artists. It’s like Twitch but for artists. It’s a place created especially for them.

We've just released our beta. We'd love to hear your feedback and answer any questions!

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Does this require Adobe Flash? I'm getting a "Error loading player: No playable sources found" message using Firefox on Linux. I don't have Flash installed but sites usually fall back to HTML5 video or tell me to install Flash. Neither happened here.

This looks really interesting though, so good luck with it and I hope to get it working soon.

EDIT: It's only the the live streams I'm having trouble with, the pre-recorded works fine.

We had some problems with Firefox but we are already working on it : )

What advantages do artists get for using Sywork instead of Twitch?

Twitch is gaming-only, and users can only stream gaming-related subjects.

They don't seem to be very strict about it. I've watched poker, piano playing, and drawing on there before.

Twitch actually has an entire section titled Creative[0] where people paint, do graphic design, sculpt, etc. Right now there are 2,000+ viewers. They also have sections for Music and Game Development / Programming.

[0] http://www.twitch.tv/directory/game/Creative

Sywork is a place created especially for artists. Next week the streamers will be able to setup rewards to their fans. In Twitch they have a small channel for creative people. But the audience is not the same, in Twitch they're into games. In Sywork they're into games, comics, movies and art in general.

Are you considering adding identity, web and GUI work too?

I would be really interested in that, too. I'm more of a backend guy, not an artist, and I think I would benefit from watching designers do their thing. Not so I could be a designer, but just to know their tools and workflow.

That's great idea! I think we can do that.

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