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The market seems to be voluntarily making a massive hole for an adult-content-friendly blogging platform to fill, I wonder why the startup scene here isn't jump
by Shish2k 13y ago
The market seems to be voluntarily making a massive hole for an adult-content-friendly blogging platform to fill, I wonder why the startup scene here isn't jumping on that?
(I'd do it myself if I knew of any appropriate payment system; but my only payment systems experience is with paypal, who hate adult content more than the blog hosts do, and bitcoin, which is unheard of outside of geek and finance niches...)
- atwebb 13y agoThis is going to sound assholish but that sounds like an excuse. If you can write a blogging platform, you can figure out a payment method.
- jes5199 13y agoPayments are way, way, way harder than blogs. Payments have consequences.
- lectrick 13y agoBitcoin payments, not so much. :)
- jes5199 13y agoYeah, I don't know if I want to make a billing service on top of a system that has no concept of refunds.
- lectrick 13y agoSure it does. They send you back your bitcoins. And any reputable organization that accepts bitcoins as payment, would do so. What it doesn't have is a concept of chargebacks, where you basically Indian-give your money.
- atwebb 13y agoIt was an asshole way to put it and I didn't read the comment correctly. I read it as "I don't feel like looking for a payment provider/method" not "A payment method does not exist." Admittedly, I'm pretty ignorant as to adult site payment methods but it would seem that, for such a massive industry, someone out there is accepting payments, is it really each individual site handling CC info?
- CamperBob2 13y agoAdult content is said to be a particular issue for payment processors because of the reportedly-high chargeback rate. People get caught when their spouses see their credit card bill and make a big show out of claiming their charges were fraudulent. With traditional paper magazines it wasn't such a problem; there was less plausible deniability due to the fact that they showed up in the mail addressed to you. But now it's apparently too easy to claim you didn't order whatever it was you ordered.
- rythie 13y agoSounds like the real product you need to build is the payment system for adult sites. Schlep Blindness: http://paulgraham.com/schlep.html http://paulgraham.com/schlep.html
- Terretta 13y agoOr sign up with an extremely well established existing one. http://www.dhdmedia.com/ http://www.dhdmedia.com/ Spun off from Danni's Hard Drive a decade ago, they have as much experience in that very problematic space as anyone.
- Zimahl 13y agoThe market seems to be voluntarily making a massive hole for an adult-content-friendly blogging platform to fill There is so much euphemism in that sentence when referencing porn that it's almost palpable. That said, I agree. Doesn't everything on the internet start with porn?
- theorique 13y agoRelevant video content: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-TA57L0kuc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-TA57L0kuc
- lectrick 13y ago> Doesn't everything on the internet start with porn? It's hard to say, without a clear definition available or even, arguably, possible... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_it_when_I_see_it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_it_when_I_see_it Which strikes me as extremely weird.
- EarthLaunch 13y agoAdult payments are a solved problem. Just look at existing adult content's payment providers you'll see the solution. Bitcoin as a promotional addon.
- lectrick 13y agoEvery time any sort of "controversial" content gets hassled by mainstream payment services, a Bitcoin gets its wings.