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Old 04-28-2022, 08:21 AM  
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So, I have a fansite (OnlyFans) type platform, not live yet, but still currently on my local dev machine. Just modifying and seeing what can be improved. I've looked at the competition, there's a lot! But, most are not offering anything new or any real reason to use them over OnlyFans from what I can see. Same payout percentages etc, although some offer easier ways to search profiles, but other than that if I was selling content I'd be thinking why not just use OnlyFans? Many of the people that said they would leave OnlyFans after they nearly banned adult are still there or went back shortly after.

This got me thinking, how can I offer something new or different? I can't payout a higher percentage, I might even struggle to match the competition, at least to start with. I considered a crypto only platform, lowers fees, higher payouts and less restrictive content policy but it seems not enough people want to pay with crypto.

So, then I thought, what about a plaform that's a hybird of OnlyFans and Twitter? What I mean is something like this...

Main selling point of the platform would be a safe place for adult content creators to promote their content, no worries about account suspensions or shadow banning like on Twitter and other mainstream social platforms. Fans who wish to pay via crypto can do so directly on the site and creators receive huge 90% payouts. Creators can promote external fansites, clipsites or personal websites without restrictions for fans who don't like crypto. To help monetise the plaform, creators would pay a monthly subscription, say $10? if crypto payments take off, we could get rid of the creator subscription fee possibly.

The big question is, would creators be willing to pay for a platform like this? I see many people complaining about account suspensions and problems with social media.

If so, would creators be willing to pay for membership via crypto? This is important because the main philosophy of the plaform is low fees and less censorship. Card payments arent really an option.

What are people's thoughts? any feedback, suggestions etc are welcome.
I think you're missing a BIG part of the problem: Traffic.

Many platforms have been created for content creators that are adult-friendly, but none of them survived because there is no incentive for content creators to use them. Mainly because they have no traffic. Content creators won't work to bring traffic to your site. You need to do that yourself.

The reason why Onlyfans worked is that the owners had both pieces of the puzzle: Contacts for all the content creators and massive amounts of traffic. If you don't have both of these, you are doomed the repeat the same mistakes every other competitor made.

Payouts, features, etc are all moot points if you don't already have access to large amounts of traffic to feed whatever platform you want to build.
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