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Re:Ask YC: how to best make money on the side? by dpapathanasiou on Monday October 22, 2007 @12:55PM (#71198)
I'm not being facetious: one of the O.P.'s web sites is "http://3boobs.de/" or, as he himself defines it "erotic games".

Porn-ish sites like that do attract advertisers.

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Re:Ask YC: how to best make money on the side? by imsteve on Tuesday October 23, 2007 @06:13AM (#71545)
Details or it's not true!

I've found that advertising rarely even pays for your server bills when you're getting started. More often it just annoys your users and gets in the way of doing something more productive with your time.

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Re:Ask YC: how to best make money on the side? by Tichy on Tuesday October 23, 2007 @12:24PM (#71654)
Traffic attracts advertisers, porn-ish alone doesn't do anything. Or why would advertisers be interested?
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Re:Ask YC: how to best make money on the side? by dpapathanasiou on Tuesday October 23, 2007 @03:18PM (#71761)
It seems that the affiliate ad model for "dating" sites pays well: http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2... (note the paragraph which starts "To expand without investment capital...").

It's also interesting to see that when AdBrite loses an adult advertising partnership, it's an important loss for them: http://valleywag.com/tech/online-advertising/philip-kaplans-...

AdBrite is private, though, so we don't know what percentage of adult ads account for revenues, but they do have an entire other site -- BlackLabelAds.com - dedicated to adult ads.

Anyway, it was just an obvious suggestion, given the 3boobs site you'd already created.

Best of luck to you, whatever you do.

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