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by tmp65535 1851 days ago
Similarly, I've been writing respectable, sophisticated software for decades but I'm fairly certain that my most widely used piece of software, by a wide margin, is a mildly pornographic app (http://driftwheeler.com)

Other projects I've published have a trickle of users. But this app, published in 2017, has a continuously growing population of users from all over the world. I get email every day asking whether soft1 is the only server, thanking me, suggesting improvements, etc.

It's ironic, and there is a difficult lesson to be learned from this reality.

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Probably the lesson is most stuff boils down to product market fit. Speaking of product: the app is not available through play store, isn't it?
All the major app stores restrict pornographic or sexually explicit content.

But if you Google "porn app", the 4th or 5th search result (SexTechGuide) is a page that features the app, with a review, pros/cons, and the funny icon.