Originally Posted by Pseudonymous

When I say anybody can walk in and start a solo site and make that, i should say, anybody who knows their stuff. If you don't know your stuff, you will fail no matter what it is. And a person who hasn't been around in years and most likely got phased out, will probably fail. So you should consider who you're giving advice to. Honestly somebody in that situation, who isn't extremely gifted in this industry, up to date on trends, etc - is more likely to succeed investing money than trying to start something small that requires more skill and there's a lot of gifted people who would love to partner on projects that could use additional funding, it would allow a person without much ability to learn and catch up as well. Don't have money? Find it. You'd be surprised how easy it is to find people in your city that would kill for the profit margins adult provide or people who want more time with their kids (working remotely) or just the chance to be around pornstars, etc etc - If you can't succeed doing that, it's hard to imagine you can succeed running a business

What you are doing, solo sites, all the things that used to be easy are harder now. Not just harder than before but harder than the alternative. Using outdated methods makes it an uphill battle in regards to work and expertise. However raising capital and executing something that is missing in this industry or vastly improving on one of these newer pieces of software is MUCH easier. They leave alot of room for improvement because the guys behind these adult companies aren't really that knowledgeable. It takes them 10 years to figure out how to get the most out of what they got. Look at manyvids, its structured like a 1999 website. It's just that theyre the only ones who had money, believed in the idea and invested into the idea. There is little to no innovation in adult, people are coming out with a minimal viable product and slowly improving on it. You can copy an existing idea and make it better very easily. but you need money. Blackd did that with paysites. Manyvids looked at clips sites and made it more relevant and better. It really doesn't need to be a new idea, improve on anything out there and it will beat it. To this day, i have yet to see a product that is better, not do better.

TLDR: Telling a newbie or some guy getting back in the industry to start small isn't necessarily the best idea. since small = much harder. So while he may be happy with 2k or 5k, that might most likely less achievable