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Ask HN: Where do Adult Websites advertise tech roles?

37 points by Fifer82 ↗ HN
My friend quipped if he was me, he would work for adult websites as it would free up half his monthly outgoings.

It dawned on me that I have no idea where these roles are even listed. I have been signed up to job alerts for a decade and never seen anything like it. Yet a lot of the driving force of the internet was adult content.

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busterarm
Mindgeek is the big name in the space, if you're willing to relocate to Montreal.
aduthrow12
I worked at a top 250 website building billing and payments software ($85mm+ annual revenue) on the back-end for pretty much the top cam site in the world.

Got hired through a recruiter actually.

Raphmedia
I see ads for MindGeek on the sidebar of Stack Overflow quite often.
kbody
http://iq69.com/ is a great source for stuff related to Adult Websites, along with job & gig ads. But it's private so you have to be approved by the admins first.
jtreminio
gfy.com - Go Fuck Yourself

Word of warning: adult companies are super stingy with programmer salaries and you'll basically be competing against $10/hr offshore amateurs.

nsxwolf
Usually the tradeoff you make for trashing your reputation is to become fabulously wealthy. This sounds like a really bad deal.
bennyp101
I would imagine that most don't want agencies involved, sending though people that don't fit or would then be offended if they weren't told it was for a porn company or whatever, so I would guess they have them directly on their sites, or twitter/whatever feeds?

I had a quick look on a couple of sites (legitimate research!) but only found a job listing page on pornhub, so actually maybe that's not it. Could it be one of those industries that you have to work in to get to know about more jobs? Seems unlikely, though.

Either way, you have also piqued my interest in this!

Edit: Whilst I was writing this it seems to have been answered!

bootcat
I have seen lots of roles from kink, on linkedin.
joshribakoff
Worked at one found through craigslist. I left after the first year because somehow they were making $5k a day yet always having money problems. It got so bad they didn't pay the power bill. That and finding used needles in the bathroom were the final straw. At one of the office parties they had a communal pile of ketamine on the table. Just a really toxic environment. The CEO would regularly come in and let us know we were doing great because he lounges in his pool all day and does nothing so "keep up the great work". People would write in all the time saying we ruined their lives and what's it going to take for us to remove the videos (we could not be bribed) I didn't really advance my career at all.
colanderman
> People would write in all the time saying we ruined their lives and what's it going to take for us to remove the videos

Did this business illegally post content it did not hold copyright to? If so that the environment is otherwise toxic is not surprising.

joshribakoff
Basically it was 18 year old kids who legally had the right to sign our contracts, but still lived with mom & dad. Mom & dad would find out & call us with threats/bribes and "we" would just hang up the phone & laugh about it.
toomuchtodo
For those who are interested in going down the rabbit hole, watch the Netflix documentary "Hot Girls Wanted".

It's not exactly the same; skeezy old school porn producers have made way for young amateur porn producers, but it's still relatively the same as what OP refers to.

et-al
One company from Montreal has posted in the monthly Who's Hiring thread.

(edit: guessing Mindgeek given the other comments)

ryanlol
Start your own, you'll quickly be earning more money than the people working jobs in the industry.

Even smallish blogs doing affiliate marketing for the bigger porn sites can earn you an easy six figure income.

ever_curious
Can you elaborate on that? How is that even possible in modern internet?
soci
Many adult websites operate as a company with a completely different commercial name. I guess this is for legal reasons. I found that finding what company operates each websites (or website network) is extremely difficult.

Some job boards do the work for you by automatically classifying companies by industry. e.g. try filtering by "adult" at JobFluent job board. e.g for Barcelona: https://www.jobfluent.com/jobs-barcelona/adult

However, the same problem applies the other way around. Getting to know what adult websites operate each company is also a problem on its own...

bartvk
I wonder what this would do to your career after such a job.
Raphmedia
Depends on how you market yourself.

Example : "Worked 2 years for PornHub on their porn website."

vs.

"Worked for 2 years for MindGeek on a streaming service network serving up to one million live customers."

stephenr
> My friend quipped if he was me, he would work for adult websites as it would free up half his monthly outgoings

What. How.. What?

What exactly is your friend spending half his money on that he wouldn't need to, if working for an adult website?

Fifer82
He was just making a joke that he spends too much money on porn. Although given his nickname was "dirtbox", one can never be too sure.
nasalgoat
I was headhunted for the job I had at an adult website hosting company. You can't go by domain name or anything, as the companies themselves all have very innocuous, bland corporate names to avoid attention.

I would say that there's no specific way to go about hunting for such jobs as they all use the same resources as any other internet companies to find employees, but they do lean more heavily on recruiters. Perhaps ask some recruiters to point you in that direction.

bjourne
> it would free up half his monthly outgoings.

What does that mean? Half his fixed monthly costs are for buying porn?

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eonw
the pay isn't particularly great in adult anymore, the parties aren't as fun either.

there used to be a couple agencies but they appear to have closed down over the years, just checked their websites.

if you really want to work in the space, just visit some of the links in their footers. you'll start finding out who the parent companies are and how to contact them.