Stay connected with the right people
Your public work leads interested people directly to the space where your community gathers.
For illustrators, photographers, musicians, writers, filmmakers and game makers
You already have an audience. Give it somewhere to become a community.
Publish your work, keep the conversation around it in one place, and build a direct relationship with the people who show up for it.
Build a lasting connection
Give your audience a place to meet and grow.
Talk directly with your audience
Bring your followers together in rooms where announcements, questions and spontaneous conversations all have a place.
Bring every conversation together
Posts, chat, live sessions and events remain connected to your work in one clear space.
Build something that lasts
Your rooms, habits and shared history give your community a familiar place to return to.
Grow
Discovery puts your work in front of people who are looking for exactly it—no algorithmic lottery, no paid reach.
Engage
Publish, run live rooms, organise events and keep the conversation in one place instead of five.
Earn
Memberships, premium spaces and creator-selected campaigns are on the roadmap, so each community can choose its own model.
Getting started
From first post to a room that stays busy.
- 01Open your space
Create a community, name a few channels — work in progress, finished pieces, off-topic. Ten minutes.
- 02Post publicly
Anything you share can appear in the public feed, with a route back to your community attached.
- 03Let people arrive
Someone finds the work, opens the community, sees what it is about, and joins directly from your public profile.
- 04Give them a reason to stay
Process threads, critique rooms, live sessions, events. The things a feed cannot hold.
Creator tools
Turn an audience into a community that is yours.
Publish your work, host the conversation around it, and keep a direct line to the people who follow you—no algorithm in between. Memberships and creator support are on the roadmap, not presented as finished features.
Monetisation roadmap◇ Paid community access◇ Creator-controlled sponsorships◇ Transparent platform commission
CREATOR STUDIO · ILLUSTRATIVEConcept Artists
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Open by construction
Your community should not depend on one company’s mood.
Run Lyra yourself, inspect the code, or join a hosted node. Federation is designed to connect independent nodes while each operator keeps control of infrastructure and policy.
- ✓Source available
- ✓Self-hostable
- ✓Experimental federation research
For creators
From a single post to a community that stays.
Discovery is only useful if it leads somewhere. This is the path a new member actually takes.
- 01Post→
- 02Discovery→
- 03Community visit→
- 04Join→
- 05Active member
Creator monetisation tools are on the roadmap and are not shown as available today.
Publishing that leads somewhere
A post is not the end of the funnel. Each one carries a route back to your community, so a reader can become a member in a single step.
Understand what actually works
See which posts bring people in, which channels keep them, and where they drop off—without turning your members into a dashboard metric.
Moderation you can delegate
Roles, reports and an audit trail let a team share the load before a community outgrows one person.
Built for the way creative work actually happens.
Illustrators & concept artists
Process shots, critique threads, studies that never reach a finished post.
Photographers
Series, edits, gear talk, and the slow conversations film deserves.
Musicians & producers
Demos, stems, listening rooms, release nights.
Writers
Drafts, feedback circles, and a room that survives between books.
Filmmakers & video
Cuts, breakdowns, watch-alongs and post-mortems.
Game makers
Devlogs, playtests, patch talk and a place for players to stay.
Being supported
Choose how your creative community is funded.
Memberships, one-off support, paid events and creator-approved advertising are on the roadmap. Each creator will be able to choose the options that fit their community.
Memberships
Paid access to a role, a channel or a whole space — attached to the community you already run.
One-off support
Tips and single purchases, for people who want to give without subscribing.
Paid events
Ticketed live sessions, workshops and premieres inside your own rooms.
Creator-approved advertising
Enable selected campaigns, choose suitable categories and keep control over where and how often ads appear.
Self-hosting stays free and unmetered. If you run your own node, you can use any payment method you like — with no commission to us.
Questions creators actually ask.
Can I keep using the platforms I am already on?
Yes. Most creators keep posting where they already are and use Lyra as the place people go when they want more than a comment. A post here can be shared anywhere else.
Is Lyra suitable for a small audience?
Yes. A small group is an excellent starting point: discovery works from what you share, and a room of thirty engaged people can already become a lively community.
Can I import my Discord community?
Automatic import of selected Discord categories and channels is on the roadmap. Until it is ready, you can recreate the same structure manually.
Who owns my community?
You do. The source is available and Lyra is self-hostable: run it on our node or your own, and keep control of your community either way.
Can I share moderation with my team?
Yes. Roles, reports, timeouts and an audit trail let you hand real responsibility to people you trust.
What is available today?
Publishing, communities, channels, direct messages, moderation, voice and video are ready to use. Creator monetisation is the next major step on the roadmap.
Give your audience a place to meet and stay.
Create your community, publish your first update and start the conversation.