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Originally Posted by Punyeto
Reviving an OLD post! Something that always bothered me was the lack of options in cam aggregators that weren't tied to a particular platform (WordPress primarily). I wound up building the API I that I wish existed when I started out. I'm rolling it out as a service. It will launch (hopefully this weekend), with seven sites. I have a couple of questions:
1. What will add more value to webmasters... increasing the number of integrations (cam sites), or increasing the filters (allowing webmasters to niche down).
2. Every option you listed was a script or WordPress plugin. Is a straight API something that adult webmasters shy away from?
3. What would be considered fair pricing? I definitely don't want to hit people over the head, but I do want to make money. This is a very active project, with new integrations happening almost weekly after launch.
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There were solutions available for this already, so it's not a brand new idea.
Anyway to the points:
1. definitely a filter - there's an overload of performers on any given site and one needs to target (also with regards to what niche one's sites are)
2. not exactly, but it has to be easy to plug-in, and have enough custom options to make it work for a particular site
The closest to it from what I saw is the
Cam4 API toolkit
which allows for live-feeds, fanclubs or galleries to be included.
(if anyone interested you can check the documentation on the site)
3. This is the principal question
The pricing cannot be too high, as the main purpose for what one pays is to save time.
Since tech savvy affiliates may be able to build something themselves.
I'd make an interactive calculator and simply run several projections, to see how many customers one needs to get for different pricing models, to make it worthwhile. Before going public with it. That should give you an answer.
For reference - I'm having a highly established industry friend, who built a top solution for this, but pretty much stopped offering it in public already, as the income didn't justify its further development and maintenance.