Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?

Re:Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and fr... by Phlarp on Monday September 23, 2013 @12:59PM (#6432294)

How did you break into this industry? I've done random work as a freelancer for a few different adults sites, but I've always felt like running my own was the real "money shot" as far as passive income goes. Can you elaborate on how you got started and how you keep an edge in such a competitive space?

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Re:Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and fr... by vldx on Monday September 23, 2013 @02:05PM (#6432920)

I'm not really into the industry - my main income is coming from working for major brands in the ("mainstream") ad industry.

I saw the service of acquaintance of mine and what revenue he's making, so I though I can do better.

Generally, in this industry there's massive shortage of talent, ideas and innovation. This is a big opportunity for people who are delivering value in the "mainstream" startup scene and that was one of the reasons which made me try - you can get in and disrupt pretty easily if you think out of the box, which is not so hard in this context.

Most of the stuff is almost scam, the customers are threatened like idiots and technologically the year is 2002-2003.

There are people who say there's no money anymore in this industry and they're right - there's no money for people who are short on skills, ideas and execution, but there is huge potential for people who are coming from other "mainstream" industries.

My prediction is that lot of talented kids will enter this industry with great services - I see it as emerging trend at the moment.

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Re:Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and fr... by oijaf888 on Monday September 23, 2013 @03:08PM (#6433445)

Is technology really that behind? I mean redtube/et al are some of the largest websites out there and the blog posts seem to show a pretty high level of technology behind them although with a larger focus on cost than most startups.

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Re:Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and fr... by vldx on Monday September 23, 2013 @03:29PM (#6433568)

True, but behind these tube sites stays [1] Fabian Thylmann and his [2] company. He is considered as the biggest disruptor who revolutionised the business. The whole story is something like Napster and the record labels, but slightly different.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabian_Thylmann

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manwin

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Re:Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and fr... by rprus on Monday September 23, 2013 @10:10PM (#6435458)

Do you work with Manwin at all?

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Re:Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and fr... by vldx on Tuesday September 24, 2013 @01:41AM (#6436208)

No - I don't have any points of contact with Manwin.

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Re:Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and fr... by Killswitch on Monday September 23, 2013 @04:34PM (#6433952)

99% of adult sites run on single servers using out of date PHP/MySQL scripts. Sites like RedTube, etc use newer technology, like at Confoo a dev for YouPorn talked about their stack and they use Symfony, Varnish and Nginx.

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Re:Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and fr... by icewater on Wednesday September 25, 2013 @01:21PM (#6445899)

Can you please provide more detail regarding how innovation is lacking?

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