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First off, this is great timing since I'm removing my facebook account (which I never use anymore). I still feel like it would be nice to have something like a

First off, this is great timing since I'm removing my facebook account (which I never use anymore). I still feel like it would be nice to have something like a feed for my close members of my family. I can use IM to send messages to my parents, but a feed wld be nicer maybe. I've played around with ideas like this in regards to non-profits, not having ads, keeping data private, and going long term. I'm not sure if the authors can post their tech stack, but I'm sorta scratching my head wondering what their stack requirements are and how $4/year will keep this going for a long time. And while we're at it, how long is the plan? Decades? I only ask because in the way corps operate now, everything is short term. Outside of the megaliths (Google, Apple, FB), how many companies with your data can claim to be multi-generational? I ask this seriously, thx.

lyra_comms 10y ago
Hello equalarrow! Lyra can be exactly this - a feed for close friends and family. Just make a group with them in, and set your Conversations feed to show just that group. We have extensive experience with AWS (where Lyra runs) and we're confident that we can keep running at the price point we've set. Because we don't intend to take any investment, our plan is to become sustainable. We don't have an exit strategy and we don't intend to sell. As long as our users are willing to subscribe, so that we can pay our engineers and cover our running costs, then Lyra is here to stay.
- equalarrow 10y ago
  Sounds good, thanks for the reply. I guess my only other question on this is how portable can/will/is the data if someone wants to leave?
  - lyra_comms 10y ago
    We will offer a friendly HTML export of all the conversations you own, and all the groups you've created. Apart from that, the only other data we store on you is your email/username/securely hashed password, and whatever you fill out on your profile. They will be available for download too.

lyra_comms 10y ago

Hello equalarrow! Lyra can be exactly this - a feed for close friends and family. Just make a group with them in, and set your Conversations feed to show just that group. We have extensive experience with AWS (where Lyra runs) and we're confident that we can keep running at the price point we've set. Because we don't intend to take any investment, our plan is to become sustainable. We don't have an exit strategy and we don't intend to sell. As long as our users are willing to subscribe, so that we can pay our engineers and cover our running costs, then Lyra is here to stay.

equalarrow 10y ago
Sounds good, thanks for the reply. I guess my only other question on this is how portable can/will/is the data if someone wants to leave?
- lyra_comms 10y ago
  We will offer a friendly HTML export of all the conversations you own, and all the groups you've created. Apart from that, the only other data we store on you is your email/username/securely hashed password, and whatever you fill out on your profile. They will be available for download too.