Anyone Have Any Ideas for Starting an Adult Website

[Trophy1802 132]

Due to the limited resources for swingers and anyone interested in the LS in our immediate area, my wife and I are considering starting our own adult website. Just do it as a hobby.

 

No, we are not taking a site for porn or anything like that. Nor, it is intended to be money generating. We are just looking at something to provide some links to information for anyone interested in our area. Undoubtedly, the most important link  would be to here,  the Swingers Board website, as this has been one of the most important and best source of information to us. 

 

Anyone have any suggestions or cautions about us doing this? 

[adamgunn 1,456]

Good luck, an innovative solution is always welcome. But do be careful of the FOSTA law, which is meant to cut down on sex trafficking, but often complicates swingers stuff.

[GoldCoCouple 4,015]

Sounds like you are looking for the Only Fans website. You set up your own website and have others come to you. Not our thing, in fact we've never even visited but we've heard about it a lot lately here. A wife had an Only Fans website and when the Catholic school her children were attending found out, they were asked to leave the school. Said that the website was bringing in 100-150k a MONTH(!). Sounds like their site is more R rated than X as well: "Some of the pictures include nudity".

 

https://www.kcra.com/article/newsom-recall-what-to-know-about-california-recall-process-governor/35482537

 

https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2021/02/24/kids-kicked-out-sacred-heart-catholic-onlyfans/

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/sacramento-mom-says-catholic-school-expelled-her-3-kids-over-her-only-fans-account/ar-BB1dV1cR

 

Latest update is that the Athletic Director was ”forcibly resigned” because of his connection to to the “Only Fans” account. Humm, wonder what that means?

 

 

[hkdilbert 181]

Also beware of your provider's terms of service or any other agreements you sign when establishing the service.  Many have clauses for adult content or worse yet vaguely articulated terms that could be widely interpreted.  Laws in the hosting country could also be a hindering factor.

[cplnuswing 4,711]

On 3/6/2021 at 5:43 PM, Trophy1802 said:

Due to the limited resources for swingers and anyone interested in the LS in our immediate area, my wife and I are considering starting our own adult website. Just do it as a hobby.

 

No, we are not taking a site for porn or anything like that. Nor, it is intended to be money generating. We are just looking at something to provide some links to information for anyone interested in our area. Undoubtedly, the most important link  would be to here,  the Swingers Board website, as this has been one of the most important and best source of information to us. 

 

Anyone have any suggestions or cautions about us doing this? 

 

How about starting a club here?  "Swingers in Trophy1802's Area" sort of thing.  The club feature here is vastly better than what was the "social groups" on the old vBulletin platform, and it's really underutilized.  We have some big ideas for it, that may or may not ever come to fruition. Covid, clubs closed, etc. have made it more a time to focus on trying to hold onto what you've got instead of focusing on the new... but maybe someday.

 

Basically, you can make your group public, private (by application and approval), or invite only.  Then you can have like your own special forum that is just for that club.  It's kind of like a FB group, but better, because speaking as a forum owner, FB sucks

 

Like anything on the web though, visibility is the name of the game.  If search engines don't serve you up so people can find you, then it's going to be a very slow go. That's going to be true of any platform, and it is a LOT of work and constant battle to even keep your head above water on the google game.  Some sites can afford to have a staff of full time professionals doing just that. Note - this site isn't one of them!

 

 

4 hours ago, GoldCoCouple said:

 Said that the website was bringing in 100-150k a MONTH(!).

 

We would like some of that please   Maybe even just a little piece??  Maybe even just a crumb???

 

Websites aren't expensive to start, you can do one for dang near free...and then see your site running on your free software and your $4.99/month shared hosting plan melt down right when all of your hours upon hours, days upon days of hard work start to bear fruit and your site starts to take off. But, you can spend a lot of money quick putting up a big fancy building with all of the lights on and it stay virtually empty too... but the bills keep coming.  So, the most important thing is to be nimble enough to adjust as needed, but that's easier said than done because the further you go down one road on a platform or whatever, the more difficult it is to switch to something different/better even when you know you need to.

 

Curious to hear more and happy to help in whatever way we can. Don't claim to be experts, talented amateurs even a stretch, but we're still here so doing at least something halfway right.

[cathys 1]

Do it for fun without expecting to amass a fortune. This is one of the most competitive areas on the web.

[PeterJ 826]

I knew a couple, and played with them on several occasions, who ran a lifestyle website that focused mostly on hotwifing. They were lovely folks, both of whom had full-time jobs. They ran the website in their spare time as part of their lifestyle hobby. It was a nicely done site, with a constant flow of fresh material, much of it — videos, stills and text — centering on her hotwife adventures. The primary revenue stream was subscriptions and I recall there was some advertising. It was a lot of work, particularly for the husband, who was the webmaster. I don’t think it ever made money commensurate with the time they invested, and I wondered at the time if it even covered its expenses.
 

I had dinner with them five years ago when business brought me to their city. Not long after that they shut down the site. I suspect trying to make a business out of their hobby in the end took a good bit of the fun out of the hobby. 

[GoldCoCouple 4,015]

I was just about to add that. Long ago I was warned by a very good friend to 'never make a business out of a hobby'. Hoppbys are supposed to be something you enjoy in your free time. Making a business out of it now makes it something you HAVE to do instead of want to do and takes away the enjoyment of doing it. I've always remembered that and steered clear.