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Ask HN: Where do Adult Websites advertise tech roles?
My friend quipped if he was me, he would work for adult websites as it would free up half his monthly outgoings.
It dawned on me that I have no idea where these roles are even listed. I have been signed up to job alerts for a decade and never seen anything like it. Yet a lot of the driving force of the internet was adult content.
- deleted 9y ago[deleted]
- rolyatyasmar 9y agohttps://www.mindgeek.com/careers/ https://www.mindgeek.com/careers/
- busterarm 9y agoMindgeek is the big name in the space, if you're willing to relocate to Montreal.
- aduthrow12 9y agoI worked at a top 250 website building billing and payments software ($85mm+ annual revenue) on the back-end for pretty much the top cam site in the world. Got hired through a recruiter actually.
- Raphmedia 9y agoI see ads for MindGeek on the sidebar of Stack Overflow quite often.
- kbody 9y agohttp://iq69.com/ http://iq69.com/ is a great source for stuff related to Adult Websites, along with job & gig ads. But it's private so you have to be approved by the admins first.
- jtreminio 9y agogfy.com - Go Fuck Yourself Word of warning: adult companies are super stingy with programmer salaries and you'll basically be competing against $10/hr offshore amateurs.
- nsxwolf 9y agoUsually the tradeoff you make for trashing your reputation is to become fabulously wealthy. This sounds like a really bad deal.
- bennyp101 9y agoI would imagine that most don't want agencies involved, sending though people that don't fit or would then be offended if they weren't told it was for a porn company or whatever, so I would guess they have them directly on their sites, or twitter/whatever feeds? I had a quick look on a couple of sites (legitimate research!) but only found a job listing page on pornhub, so actually maybe that's not it. Could it be one of those industries that you have to work in to get to know about more jobs? Seems unlikely, though. Either way, you have also piqued my interest in this! Edit: Whilst I was writing this it seems to have been answered!
- bootcat 9y agoI have seen lots of roles from kink, on linkedin.
- joshribakoff 9y agoWorked at one found through craigslist. I left after the first year because somehow they were making $5k a day yet always having money problems. It got so bad they didn't pay the power bill. That and finding used needles in the bathroom were the final straw. At one of the office parties they had a communal pile of ketamine on the table. Just a really toxic environment. The CEO would regularly come in and let us know we were doing great because he lounges in his pool all day and does nothing so "keep up the great work". People would write in all the time saying we ruined their lives and what's it going to take for us to remove the videos (we could not be bribed) I didn't really advance my career at all.
- colanderman 9y ago> People would write in all the time saying we ruined their lives and what's it going to take for us to remove the videos Did this business illegally post content it did not hold copyright to? If so that the environment is otherwise toxic is not surprising.
- joshribakoff 9y agoBasically it was 18 year old kids who legally had the right to sign our contracts, but still lived with mom & dad. Mom & dad would find out & call us with threats/bribes and "we" would just hang up the phone & laugh about it.
- toomuchtodo 9y agoFor those who are interested in going down the rabbit hole, watch the Netflix documentary "Hot Girls Wanted". It's not exactly the same; skeezy old school porn producers have made way for young amateur porn producers, but it's still relatively the same as what OP refers to.
- et-al 9y agoOne company from Montreal has posted in the monthly Who's Hiring thread. (edit: guessing Mindgeek given the other comments)
- ryanlol 9y agoStart your own, you'll quickly be earning more money than the people working jobs in the industry. Even smallish blogs doing affiliate marketing for the bigger porn sites can earn you an easy six figure income.
- ever_curious 9y agoCan you elaborate on that? How is that even possible in modern internet?
- soci 9y agoMany adult websites operate as a company with a completely different commercial name. I guess this is for legal reasons. I found that finding what company operates each websites (or website network) is extremely difficult. Some job boards do the work for you by automatically classifying companies by industry. e.g. try filtering by "adult" at JobFluent job board. e.g for Barcelona: https://www.jobfluent.com/jobs-barcelona/adult https://www.jobfluent.com/jobs-barcelona/adult However, the same problem applies the other way around. Getting to know what adult websites operate each company is also a problem on its own...
- bartvk 9y agoI wonder what this would do to your career after such a job.
- Raphmedia 9y agoDepends on how you market yourself. Example : "Worked 2 years for PornHub on their porn website." vs. "Worked for 2 years for MindGeek on a streaming service network serving up to one million live customers."
- stephenr 9y ago> My friend quipped if he was me, he would work for adult websites as it would free up half his monthly outgoings What. How.. What? What exactly is your friend spending half his money on that he wouldn't need to, if working for an adult website?
- Fifer82 9y agoHe was just making a joke that he spends too much money on porn. Although given his nickname was "dirtbox", one can never be too sure.
- nasalgoat 9y agoI was headhunted for the job I had at an adult website hosting company. You can't go by domain name or anything, as the companies themselves all have very innocuous, bland corporate names to avoid attention. I would say that there's no specific way to go about hunting for such jobs as they all use the same resources as any other internet companies to find employees, but they do lean more heavily on recruiters. Perhaps ask some recruiters to point you in that direction.
- bjourne 9y ago> it would free up half his monthly outgoings. What does that mean? Half his fixed monthly costs are for buying porn?
- friend-monoid 9y agoYes. It was a joke.
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- eonw 9y agothe pay isn't particularly great in adult anymore, the parties aren't as fun either. there used to be a couple agencies but they appear to have closed down over the years, just checked their websites. if you really want to work in the space, just visit some of the links in their footers. you'll start finding out who the parent companies are and how to contact them.
- burntrelish1273 9y agoSeems like the perfect use-case for humans.txt