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Originally Posted by k0nr4d
Unless you are mega established in the industry then it's very tough to make a liveable wage in adult as a programmer. Your alternative is working for a corporation for loads of money and stability
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Originally Posted by LetterTwenty7
My friends in the coding or design biz are mostly swamped with freelance gigs or work for large companies, providing them with work all the time. What I am pointing out is that people who are experienced and do a great job have loads of work and are mostly not available, especially not for some small, low-paying projects. Maybe that's why you ran into "overpriced or rubbish quality work."  |
i'm going to stay away from pointing out the fact that most site owners and project producers in porn are on a shoestring budget, and focus on the fact that any vendor who's any good (and smart) is busy.
there are no millionaire freelance designers or programmers in adult. no one is overcharging for any work. porn freelancers charge 10-20% of mainstream quotes AT BEST. the porn industry has more cheap charlies than multi-level marketing.
i don't really care about the OPs complaint. he wants cheap labor instead of payrolling a developer. i care about the developers on GFY, since that is the majority here.
the way to secure your future as a porn developer is to provide a product. not a service, a product. a rebilling product just like the porn we sell.
i started PornCMS 15 years ago because i only had one client from 2004-2007 - Matt's Models - and that dumbass went out of business. i was suddenly out of work after nearly a decade in porn dev (started at Hegre).
nowadays i work exclusively for PornCMS client sites. i won't take any other freelance work. i'm working with a new AI chatbot client who's project is 90% off the cms, but that 10% is enough to get my help.
i'm in this selective and secure position because i built this thing up for 15 years. this year i've spent about 80 hours a week developing the new next gen version of the cms because => we can never fucking stop.
so that's part two of the security plan: work every fucking day.
bonus tip: as a developer, you can also make a good living with affiliate work. every graybeard dev in this industry has at least a few affiliate checks coming in regularly.
same rule applies - work every fucking day.
or go get a corporate job and hope you don't get laid off.
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