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gavinraytoday at 7:54 PM0 repliesview on HN

Do you all want to know a fun fact about adult-content startups:

Why do you think Onlyfans is the reigning platform for what it does.

Not because it's technically superior, or has the best advertising, or any other logical reason you might summon.

It's because they have a sweetheart deal with a payment processor (Stripe).

I put some time into seriously investigating what it'd take to get an adult-content platform off of the ground, here is one of the emails I received from a self-advertised "high-risk processor":

  > "Yes, we do have some Payment Facilitator solutions. However, none of these processors will accept Adult content."
Nobody will touch it with a 10 foot pole. It's absolute bullshit and is ripe for disruption.