I worked in the adult industry for a decade and I can tell you, the technical challenges were huge. First, you are under constant attack. DDOS, scams, hacks,

I worked in the adult industry for a decade and I can tell you, the technical challenges were huge. First, you are under constant attack. DDOS, scams, hacks, password guessing bots, SQL injections - 24 hours a day, from around the world. So, security is a never ending battle. Then you have to deal with content thievery (rate limiting), credit card processors who want to run you out of business, and other generally hostile business partners who do not want to be associated with adult content. As far as employees, when we were starting up a secondary non-adult side business that would be sharing office space and we asked potential employers if they had an issue with adult content in the workplace, over 75% said "yes". Add all that up, then consider the razor-thin margins due to the massive competition in the marketplace, you can see that it is a very difficult business to maintain, but does offer many interesting technical challenges.