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Re:Ask HN: I've built an ethical pornsite, should I make it open-source?
on Sunday April 02, 2023 @01:54PM (#35413238)
Thanks! Sure, I already asked my lawyers, but in their eyes, it's too risky. I still wanted opinions from people closer to the open-source community.
Re:Ask HN: I've built an ethical pornsite, should I make it open-source?
on Sunday April 02, 2023 @01:52PM (#35413220)
I got your point, currently, most of the money (90%) goes to creators as the main goal is to pay them correctly for their work. 1% of platform income will be donated to "1% for the planet".
And I am looking to integrate with fairmint.com to allow users/creators/random people to be a shareholder of Peach.
It is still far from a co-op, the issue is that it is already pretty hard to get funding in my industry (at least from European VC/Angels as I'm based in France) so I can't imagine how hard it would become if we were a co-op. But I would've loved the idea.
Re:Ask HN: I've built an ethical pornsite, should I make it open-source?
on Sunday April 02, 2023 @01:35PM (#35413003)
Yes it could really easily, it's looking pretty similar to netflix or nebula.tv.
In house video processing pipelines, everything is pretty standard, if you change the content it could be pretty much applied to any industries.
It even has a recommendation engine based on Neo4J DB, timecodes, categories tied to creators and videos.
Ask HN: I've built an ethical pornsite, should I make it open-source?
I am currently building an ethical adult streaming platform that allows only verified independent content creators to publish videos and series. With Peach (the name of my company), I am trying to do things differently than existing platforms in this industry by prioritizing ethics and safety.Right now, I am considering whether it would be a good idea to fully open-source the platform and...