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Show HN: My porn startup

#1
Ever find good porn but can't get to it right away? What about something you really enjoyed, where do you save it? If you're like me, you don't want nsfw sites in your browsing history and especially not in your bookmarks. So I built http://xstashed.com/hn/ (clickable in comments) - a place to stash your nsfw links.

While it's a minimal viable product, I do have a basic roadmap that can be viewed here http://xstashed.com/todo/. I just wanted to get this in the hands of potential users to get feedback early on.

On the tech side of things I've built this thing nimble so that I can quickly shape the site from your feedback. For those who are interested in the technical site of xstashed, it's a custom Django (Python) application continuously deployed with Chef. MySQL for database, Celery for background task, and Redis for cache and Celery broker.

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I'm surprised that bitcoin isn't used more often in this industry. If you think about it, the reluctance to pay for lots of these services would be that they show up in credit card statements... that your significant other/family members are likely to see. Once all of that is obscured or concealed in some manner, you see the door open to more impulse buying.

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Good, not just for porn either :)

What else would you save in xstashed? Just curious.

Well pretty much anything you'd not be comfortable being in your bookmarks. Maybe you're a closet gay, atheist or have a weird/embarrassing condition that you're researching and don't want those links saved in your bookmarks.

And the biggest use case - read later! Using bookmarks is a horrible way to save stuff you want to read later. Often times I even forget I had something bookmarked to read later. A nice browser extension that shows if you have any links in the queue. You could probably build on of the xstashed code, and turn it into something more innocuous - maybe ystashed

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Email optional, nice detail.

Ugh, okay the problem using this isn't your fault - but (maybe unique problem as a woman?) finding good porn actually worth saving is a challenge. Would be awesome if you had a StumbleUpon type feature for discovering existing bookmarks in your system - at least for the user onboarding flow so I can test it out faster (to see if the viewer on mobile is good etc).

I like the design, pink was a surprise (my immediate thought before loading the page was that I would be harassing you for making too much of a "men only" looking site. It's pretty neutral. Women who watch porn is a fascinating niche btw, because for them it is aspirational and they often want to buy stuff to recreate it. You could create tasteful native ads in your content to make revenue. For guys it is (studies show) more transactional - just want to get off.

I can't do refer.xxx right now, just too far out of our focus are, but that might be a direction for you to go.

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Email optional, nice detail. Ugh, okay the problem using this isn't your fault - but (maybe unique problem as a woman?) finding good porn actually worth saving is a challenge. Would be awesome if you had a StumbleUpon type feature for discovering existing bookmarks in your system - at least for the user onboarding flow so I can test it out faster (to see if the viewer on mobile is good etc). I like the design, pink w…

Not a problem unique to women...
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