Given how much the porn industry has given to the rest of the web in terms of leading the way in areas such as e-commerce, streaming and so on, it's nice that the non-porn industries can give a little back.
“I would love to say Offbeatr was a totally original idea, it’s not.”
Who cares? Why is this even relevant? Originality does not matter in business.
Google was not the first search engine. Facebook wasn't the first social network. And if the competitive advantage of your business relies on having an original idea (not saying that kickstarter is this type of business), then you don't have a defensible business model.
That's a good point. I mainly put that in as a way to credit where we got the idea. I didn't want to come across as if I had come up with this awesome idea all by myself...cause I didn't.
And you are absolutely right how being original doesn't equate to succeeding in business. It helps, but there are so many other factors.
The problem as we've learned from our foray into the adult industry is that there is very little access or ways to raise money for anything adult. Traditionally movie studios were the ones funding all the shoots, but as the internet grew up fast (ie BitTorrent & tube sites) the business models didn't and now since people aren't buying porn dvd's or signing up to membership websites like they used to this means less content being made and more aversion to trying anything new (that's why there are thousands of porn parodies). The business model has stagnated and as for real innovation, we haven't seen much...
So we figured if we can put the future of the adult industry in the public's hands and of those who are passionate about the movies, books, or art combined they can try new things that otherwise your traditional studios / publishers would never attempt. Of course this is no different than what kickstarter and other crowdfunding platforms do for their users, but adult as of yet has no such platform.
That's the theory behind what we want to do...in practice...well that's yet to be determined.
Ben Tao (the person quoted in the article saying that) responded to your post, but you might not have noticed because his account (newchimedes) was hell-banned from Hacker News a few months ago. To see his posts you will need to turn on "show dead" under the settings for your account. He has another comment lower on this article as well.
(I bring this up only because I have made it a habit/goal to collect the names of users that have been hell-banned, as I consider the mechanism of hell-banning to be broken and the effects on the community to be negative, not because I am defending or backing either of your points: I haven't actually read your comments in detail, or the article.)
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Who cares? Why is this even relevant? Originality does not matter in business.
Google was not the first search engine. Facebook wasn't the first social network. And if the competitive advantage of your business relies on having an original idea (not saying that kickstarter is this type of business), then you don't have a defensible business model.
And you are absolutely right how being original doesn't equate to succeeding in business. It helps, but there are so many other factors.
The problem as we've learned from our foray into the adult industry is that there is very little access or ways to raise money for anything adult. Traditionally movie studios were the ones funding all the shoots, but as the internet grew up fast (ie BitTorrent & tube sites) the business models didn't and now since people aren't buying porn dvd's or signing up to membership websites like they used to this means less content being made and more aversion to trying anything new (that's why there are thousands of porn parodies). The business model has stagnated and as for real innovation, we haven't seen much...
So we figured if we can put the future of the adult industry in the public's hands and of those who are passionate about the movies, books, or art combined they can try new things that otherwise your traditional studios / publishers would never attempt. Of course this is no different than what kickstarter and other crowdfunding platforms do for their users, but adult as of yet has no such platform.
That's the theory behind what we want to do...in practice...well that's yet to be determined.
(I bring this up only because I have made it a habit/goal to collect the names of users that have been hell-banned, as I consider the mechanism of hell-banning to be broken and the effects on the community to be negative, not because I am defending or backing either of your points: I haven't actually read your comments in detail, or the article.)