Originally Posted by TheProfessor

The adult industry is filled with talented people, start of the art
technology, and financial resources which can be repurposed to help
all sorts of people. There are so many non-profit companies that
can't afford custom website development and the latest technologies.
I recently funded a non-profit company to help micro-fund integration
developers to reuse development efforts from the adult world to
mainstream (among other projects). For example, software for a webcam
website could be reused to provide remote tutoring (think low cost
homework helpers in India or volunteers broadcasting), handle a suicide
hotline where people can actually see the people helping others, or other
situations where a group wants to make experts available. An online dating
site could be repurposed to match volunteers with needs or to organize
support networks for at-risk people. An SMS chat system can be reused to
send out homework reminders to parents. The basic assumption is that
there are huge economies of scale when it comes to building websites -
the repurposing of technologies is often considerably cheaper than the
original development. While the company is in the formative stage, we
will be taking proposals and funding a number of projects this year.