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by marikio 2869 days ago
There are a few companies/orgs trying to solve these issues:

https://spankchain.com/

https://www.iliac.io/

But porn doesn't have high margins. No one (except the large distributors like Mindgeek - Pornhub, Redtube, YouPorn) is making much money. Especially these small sites that are being built. After you subtract legal, production, performer fees you're left with almost nothing.

I worked in the Adult Industry for several years, but building tech for the industry wasn't financially stable for me so I had to leave. Still really passionate about the sex worker community though. Porn performers/activists are the kindest, sweetest, most intelligent group of folks I've ever worked with.

Maybe we can start a small group of engineers who want to discuss working through some solutions together. My email is hello@marik.io if anyone is interested.

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iliac seems to be your very own venture. A disclaimer would have been nice.

In what form exactly hasn't the industry been "financially stable" for you and why? As a contractor? As an employee?