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by benjash 4803 days ago
Last time I checked the porn industry has been leading the industry in terms of tech.

The aesthetics aren't great, but this is because it doesn't matter. Users are otherwise concerned by other things.

In my opinion - the only "startup" in the adult industry doing anything really original is myfreecams.

The media coverage will help them, but I cant see how this is doing anything original or new.
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noja 4803 days ago
> In my opinion - the only "startup" in the adult industry doing anything really original is myfreecams.

Can you tell us a bit about what they're doing?

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laumars 4803 days ago
Basically what the domain name suggests; free cam girls.

The idea is simple: you can watch girls on cam for free. But to talk to them you have to buy tokens, you tip girls you like and so on. So it's essentially modeled a bit like a strip club but on a much grander scale.

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vidarh 4803 days ago
That model has been around for many years.
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benjash 4800 days ago
It's different in the way it handles payments and has a very unique way of scoring girls. Leading to its own economy and community. Its quite different to the other sites that offer 'free' chat in terms that the girls become mini celebrities.

There innovation is very subtle, i don't think there's much room to really innovate on this space. I was trying to make the point that there isn't much room for anything original.

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laumars 4803 days ago
Yes and no. In the real world, then certainly; but My Free Cams does deliver that concept in a newer and better way than anything I've seen online previously. However I should remind you that I wasn't the one who claimed that MFC were original.
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olalonde 4803 days ago
> Last time I checked the porn industry has been leading the industry in terms of tech.

That must have been 15 years ago. Most of the industry runs on shitty PHP/Perl scripts running on cPanel powered dedicated/shared servers. See http://www.gfy.com (Now Hiring, Buy and Sell and Business services forums - NSFW)

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benjash 4800 days ago
In regards to streaming video & delivering large amounts of video content on a huge scale. They where miles ahead of everyone...

Most of the stuff people see is just ground level grunts making cheap nasty affiliate sites.

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