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Nobody ever wants to open source Pornhub. Wide consumer interest, no physical products to worry about, lots of advertising potential - and your not competing wi

Nobody ever wants to open source Pornhub. Wide consumer interest, no physical products to worry about, lots of advertising potential - and your not competing with Amazon, Wal-Mart, Google, Apple, or Target. Sounds like a better deal to me.

egypturnash 4y ago
Constant hassle with payment processors deciding to ban smut once you get too big, though.
- lelanthran 4y ago
  > Constant hassle with payment processors deciding to ban smut once you get too big, though. Not doing something because you might get too big is not sound reasoning. When you get too big, that's the time to worry about it.
  - ItsTooMuch 4y ago
    The payment processors will shut you down even for your first payment if it's for porn. More likely - you'll never get to a first payment anyways, they won't sign the contract.
    - lelanthran 4y ago
      > The payment processors will shut you down even for your first payment if it's for porn. More likely - you'll never get to a first payment anyways, they won't sign the contract. If that was even occasionally true, the tons of paid porn sites wouldn't exist. The fact that they both exist and take popular cards tells me that that cannot possibly be true.
      - ItsTooMuch 4y ago
        There are special payment processors catering to porn/etc, but the problem is that they require extremely large collateral and have other unusual requirements that are untenable to new businesses. Most probably they won't even talk to a startup (I tried, didn't get a reply). There's a reason why startups like OnlyFans used normal payment processors and tried to convince them they're not porn instead of beginning with these specialized ones. Edit: BTW, a large portion of seemingly independent porn sites are actually run by only few companies. Especially the Xvideos corporation.
        droidist2 4y ago
        So we should pivot to building an open source payment processor for porn?
        popcalc 4y ago
        A payment processor is an entity that handles bureaucracy. It's not a piece of software you can run and forget about. It is many people working around the clock taking phone calls.
        droidist2 4y ago
        I should have been clearer and said "software to aid in running a payment processor" but I used "payment processor" as a shorthand. Just as "open-source Amazon" is shorthand for "software to aid in running an entity like Amazon."
  - samdcbu 4y ago
LtdJorge 4y ago
If someone got it to be popular enough, MindGeek would buy it and you'd be back at square one.

egypturnash 4y ago

Constant hassle with payment processors deciding to ban smut once you get too big, though.

lelanthran 4y ago
> Constant hassle with payment processors deciding to ban smut once you get too big, though. Not doing something because you might get too big is not sound reasoning. When you get too big, that's the time to worry about it.
- ItsTooMuch 4y ago
  The payment processors will shut you down even for your first payment if it's for porn. More likely - you'll never get to a first payment anyways, they won't sign the contract.
  - lelanthran 4y ago
    > The payment processors will shut you down even for your first payment if it's for porn. More likely - you'll never get to a first payment anyways, they won't sign the contract. If that was even occasionally true, the tons of paid porn sites wouldn't exist. The fact that they both exist and take popular cards tells me that that cannot possibly be true.
    - ItsTooMuch 4y ago
      There are special payment processors catering to porn/etc, but the problem is that they require extremely large collateral and have other unusual requirements that are untenable to new businesses. Most probably they won't even talk to a startup (I tried, didn't get a reply). There's a reason why startups like OnlyFans used normal payment processors and tried to convince them they're not porn instead of beginning with these specialized ones. Edit: BTW, a large portion of seemingly independent porn sites are actually run by only few companies. Especially the Xvideos corporation.
      - droidist2 4y ago
        So we should pivot to building an open source payment processor for porn?
        popcalc 4y ago
        A payment processor is an entity that handles bureaucracy. It's not a piece of software you can run and forget about. It is many people working around the clock taking phone calls.
        droidist2 4y ago
        I should have been clearer and said "software to aid in running a payment processor" but I used "payment processor" as a shorthand. Just as "open-source Amazon" is shorthand for "software to aid in running an entity like Amazon."
- samdcbu 4y ago

LtdJorge 4y ago

If someone got it to be popular enough, MindGeek would buy it and you'd be back at square one.