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Get your loved ones on Lyra instead. Lyra is an open conversation service which respects language, puts the user in control, and is designed with harrassment protection in mind.

We're a nonprofit and don't accept investment.

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What's Lyra? I just see a website that looks like a social media marketing agency.

Please see www.hellolyra.com

It looks beautiful! It reminds me of Gingko (https://gingkoapp.com) and Pinboard.

How are you guys going to make money? I understand it's a non-profit but you're gonna still need money for servers and man-hours.

Thank you! We charge £2.99 per year ($3.80) to users in developed countries. We aim to keep access free for users in developing countries.

Awesome. Do you do photo-hosting? I could see that easily sapping away all of your money. Or is it just text?

We just do text - but we do it well. Text is both very cheap, and very expressive.

As I mentioned in a reply to a comment about another text-only platform, not allowing photos and videos will not attract many users. There will be a small niche of users, but it won't become massive without those. It'd be quite similar to web based forums and discussion platforms. I hope you can figure out how to keep the platform running while allowing non-text content.

Thanks! We're committed to only text, I'm afraid, and the platform is already sustainable :)

Becoming massive isn't one of our aims (we're a nonprofit).

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