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Re: Ask HN: Are there any innovative startups in the porn/adult industry?

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Post by JetSpiegel »

_wp3r wrote: post #33

The guys I know in the industry are mostly on the bleeding edge of stream tech both hardware and software. The sheer size of the industry in proportion to the entire internet means that some giant portion of all IT in the world work in the space. The guys I know all communicate in private communities though, and not for the taboo reason but because the industry is overtly hostile and aggressive towards competitors. T…

I think it's also about the taboo. You can't go to the police and say "Some site is stealing my porn!" without getting laughed at.

Re: Ask HN: Are there any innovative startups in the porn/adult industry?

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Post by itengelhardt »

rcfox wrote: post #41
itengelhardt wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

IMHO the problem is not that men "don't appreciate a woman's pleasure" - that is some serious bullshit in my opinion. Most men love it when their SO enjoys sex. The problem (to me) is the criminalization of porn and prostitution in the US. Just think about what kind of outrage it would cause if Stripe had a single prostitute or porn website use their service to receive payments. (For the sake of argument assume the p…

> The problem (to me) is the criminalization of porn and prostitution in the US. Porn is illegal in the US?

You are right. I should have said "stigmatization".

Re: Ask HN: Are there any innovative startups in the porn/adult industry?

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Post by kordless »

sudokent wrote: post #38
tiagotalbuquerq wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

she would stop crying and use cryptocurrency.

I don't believe that BTC has enough market penetration to solve her problem. When I've interviewed potential users concerning my product, the response has been "Isn't Bitcoin a scam? I saw on the news it is a scam" "I want to just use my CC" "What is Bitcoin?" That said, I still will launch with BTC support. Because I believed the hype and coded the solution before doing interviews... sigh

I've been in the crypto-currency scene for a year now and I can say definitively that early adopter passion is giving way to healthy (and normal) market skepticism as the market becomes more aware of the technologies. It's atypical of the way any market evolves and how it evolves over time. Not sure why we keep expecting Bitcoin to go from zero use to global use in a matter of a few years...

The porn industry has, time and time again, used new technologies to overcome limitations of the medium by which they do business. I do think crypto-currencies play a part in that, especially when considering the opportunities presented by a global marketplace. Better you can sell to anyone anywhere with no fees, instead of being locked to a given region because of credit card number, or cost structure because of higher risk transactions.

Re: Ask HN: Are there any innovative startups in the porn/adult industry?

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Post by parados »

brettz wrote: post #53

We do pretty innovative and fun things at Pornhub. We're hiring too if you're interested.

I'm curious, assuming you are hiring tech staff, do you find any difference in the quantity or quality of applicants compared to other, non adult, tech companies?

Re: Ask HN: Are there any innovative startups in the porn/adult industry?

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Post by tormeh »

ufmace wrote: post #59
tormeh wrote: post #15

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I think men are just wary of being seen as creeps. At a recent job search lecture at my uni we were told to never have a picture on your CV, with this as example of how it goes wrong: "Let's say you're a beautiful woman and you send a company your CV with pic on it. Now, the reviewer of your CV is male and if he asks you in for an interview the other employees at the company might suggest he did it because of the way…

Especially so with something as big and public as backing or working with a sex toy company. No matter what way you go with it, somebody's going to try to jump down your throat. Often several different groups, for contradictory reasons. Is it any wonder that most men, and anybody whose job involves making sure your company isn't the target of a negative media frenzy, doesn't want to touch this stuff with a 10-foot po…

You know, it just hit me that having an all-female company would be really advantageous in this way. The grass is always greener etc. but from this side of the fence it looks like it makes you bulletproof to this kind of things.

Re: Ask HN: Are there any innovative startups in the porn/adult industry?

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Post by tormeh »

sudokent wrote: post #38
tiagotalbuquerq wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

she would stop crying and use cryptocurrency.

I don't believe that BTC has enough market penetration to solve her problem. When I've interviewed potential users concerning my product, the response has been "Isn't Bitcoin a scam? I saw on the news it is a scam" "I want to just use my CC" "What is Bitcoin?" That said, I still will launch with BTC support. Because I believed the hype and coded the solution before doing interviews... sigh

BTC is an investment pyramid scheme, but an entirely legit transaction technology. Just be sure to exchange the BTC back into normal money fairly quickly, as it's neither a secure nor stable store of value.

Re: Ask HN: Are there any innovative startups in the porn/adult industry?

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Post by manny5d »

There was a talk at SXSW this year that was called the "Relieving Frustration The UX of Porn" that showed insights on how the Porn industry was innovating in UX design and showed how mainstream sites were following in its footsteps it was a good talk.

http://www.slideshare.net/SteveJohnson35/relieving-frustrati...

Re: Ask HN: Are there any innovative startups in the porn/adult industry?

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Post by [deleted] »

resca79 wrote: post #29

I have not the competences to do something like that but in my opinion this is original hacking. In a small town of Sicily (near where I live) some guys are making incredible stuff with retro - computing. They have restore hold computers like PDP11, apple one with all original components. http://museo.freaknet.org/en

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Re: Ask HN: Are there any innovative startups in the porn/adult industry?

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Post by cassgames »

sudokent wrote: post #38
tiagotalbuquerq wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

she would stop crying and use cryptocurrency.

I don't believe that BTC has enough market penetration to solve her problem. When I've interviewed potential users concerning my product, the response has been "Isn't Bitcoin a scam? I saw on the news it is a scam" "I want to just use my CC" "What is Bitcoin?" That said, I still will launch with BTC support. Because I believed the hype and coded the solution before doing interviews... sigh

My experience of accepting donations over 3 months on my site: a handful of donations via Paypal, zero donations with BTC.

UPD: doesn't matter though, I'd still implement BTC if I had to do it again. It didn't take much time and was a really interesting experiment. I do believe it's the future of Internet payments.

Re: Ask HN: Are there any innovative startups in the porn/adult industry?

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Post by resca79 »

resca79 wrote: post #29

I have not the competences to do something like that but in my opinion this is original hacking. In a small town of Sicily (near where I live) some guys are making incredible stuff with retro - computing. They have restore hold computers like PDP11, apple one with all original components. http://museo.freaknet.org/en

Sorry for this comment, I wanted comment another article( iphone issue)
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