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  • Forest
    Confirmed User
    • Aug 2001
    • 9135

    #1

    How did you make your first dollar in porn?

    Mine was August 31 1999 I hooked up a cam on streamray and broadcast my first model. Think it was 3.99 a minute back then. No dsl it was all on dial up. 😂
  • Sly
    Let's do some business!
    • Sep 2004
    • 31376

    #2
    MaxCash, Kara's. Then I want to say Top Cash, before it was Top Bucks.
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    • Publisher Bucks
      Confirmed User
      • Oct 2018
      • 1330

      #3
      Originally posted by Sly
      MaxCash, Kara's. Then I want to say Top Cash, before it was Top Bucks.
      Yep, same here, Maxcash - Major Melons I think was the site, I still have the check in a frame somewhere.

      ARS then TopBucks quite quickly afterwards, those were the days, throw a shitty site up (by todays standards) throw traffic (through DMOZ listings) at it and make bank

      Dabbled in the AVS systems back in the day but could never get them to work for me

      Dialers (MoneyTree) did quite well as did Samis sites, (XClicks) maybe?
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      • Huggles
        GFY'S #1 retard
        • Feb 2003
        • 12506

        #4
        ARS Milf Riders(?) gallery, made 4 sales my first day for $35 USD a pop back in like 2003
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        • NatalieK
          Natalie K
          • Apr 2010
          • 20106

          #5
          escorting was a massive fuck me...

          working with my partner, we were ceramic tiling, hard work, 9 - 9, but good money, supported our family & enjoyed a good life with our own business.

          However, when playing on cam, adultwork & earning a few quid, when a phone call was for $300 for the hour of sex & having fun with the both of us, things changed...

          my life continued
          My official site Custom vids Make money & get into the businessFirst time girls
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          • blackmonsters
            Making PHP work
            • Nov 2002
            • 20961

            #6
            AgeCheck.

            Ironic that it would be the most needed website now.

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            • Farang
              one sick puppy
              • Oct 2004
              • 11713

              #7
              first $35 pps, submitted a gallery somewhere back in 2004. that's 21 years ago... damn.
              fbm

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              • Sly
                Let's do some business!
                • Sep 2004
                • 31376

                #8
                Originally posted by Publisher Bucks
                Yep, same here, Maxcash - Major Melons I think was the site, I still have the check in a frame somewhere.

                ARS then TopBucks quite quickly afterwards, those were the days, throw a shitty site up (by todays standards) throw traffic (through DMOZ listings) at it and make bank

                Dabbled in the AVS systems back in the day but could never get them to work for me

                Dialers (MoneyTree) did quite well as did Samis sites, (XClicks) maybe?
                I did "free sites," like Green Guys and SEO. Could never get AVS or TGP traction.
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                • VikingMan
                  Exploiting human weakness
                  • Jan 2008
                  • 6859

                  #9
                  I made a string of amateur videos with a stripper from Tootsies Caberet in Miami. I was selling VHS tapes. Chinese hosting with millions of mails. Switched to internet based videos after getting tired of packing and shipping thousands of tapes.

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                  • Rochard
                    Jägermeister Test Pilot
                    • Dec 2001
                    • 75733

                    #10
                    In 1996 I had my first website "Zachary's Daily Dose", a daily bikini site. I updated it every day by hand. Back then I had no intention of making money off of the website. It was just purely for fun. Someone emailed me and said "If you put a banner on the bottom of your page I will pay you $1k. I was in college at the time and needed the money. It was a banner for a preggo chicks website. The check cleared. The next month he offered me $2k for two banners. This went on for a few months until he decided not to renew. By then I was looking into adult programs and... here we are.
                    Herschel Savage
                    Brooklyn, NY

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                    • Cobra69erss
                      Confirmed User
                      • Mar 2017
                      • 110

                      #11
                      Lensman with Amateur Pages back in 99... this is not my original GFY account lol
                      cobra69ers at hotmail dot com

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                      • CurrentlySober
                        Too lazy to wipe my ass
                        • Aug 2002
                        • 38941

                        #12
                        If and when I eventually make one, I'll be sure to let you know


                        👁️ 👍️ 💩

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                        • NatalieK
                          Natalie K
                          • Apr 2010
                          • 20106

                          #13
                          Originally posted by VikingMan
                          I made a string of amateur videos with a stripper from Tootsies Caberet in Miami. I was selling VHS tapes. Chinese hosting with millions of mails. Switched to internet based videos after getting tired of packing and shipping thousands of tapes.
                          my partner´s dad had video shops back in the 1980´s & 90´s, a chain of shops bought boats & villas...

                          the majority of income was from VHS porn, double penetration & DP2, animal farm & many more
                          My official site Custom vids Make money & get into the businessFirst time girls
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                          • Huggles
                            GFY'S #1 retard
                            • Feb 2003
                            • 12506

                            #14
                            The glory days when every month a new crazy reality site was opening up!

                            I miss Gorilla Gras... best site ever...
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                            • Retiree
                              Life is short
                              • May 2012
                              • 1478

                              #15
                              GammaCash pay per click program...shortly after the same with FlashCash.
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                              • fuzebox
                                making it rain
                                • Oct 2003
                                • 22351

                                #16
                                Originally posted by Sly
                                I did "free sites," like Green Guys and SEO. Could never get AVS or TGP traction.
                                Same here. I started submitting freesites when everyone else was doing TGPs and moving into MGPs. First sale with socalcash (naughty america) bookwormbitches.

                                I basically went from photo galleries to blogs, shot some niche paysites, played with video dumps for a minute, and then jumped into buying banner spots on tube sites in 2011 which is when the money really started flowing.

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                                • JayMoyes
                                  Confirmed User
                                  • Jul 2006
                                  • 319

                                  #17
                                  I think it was Lady Thorn's Bizarre Flea Market in December 1992. I shared a table for my artwork and sold a couple of "prints" of my Dominatrix artwork. My first learning experience too as I didn't make much off just selling art. But I realized if I gave it a utility, like a calendar, where Dommes could post in their dungeon for appointments or for kinky people to have in their play rooms, I'd sell more.

                                  I debuted my first calendar at "Spannermart" the fundraiser for leathermen who'd been arrested for a party in the UK. I sold a few over usenet, sight unseen, and through The Spectator magazine. This got me into QSM bookstore, then at The Specator.

                                  When I moved to LA, Bill Margold got me a couple of gigs as an extra on Vivid movies like Roommates and Seven Deadly Sins.

                                  It wouldn't be until 1999 when I was about to call it quits on selling kinky art when I got a call from my former room mate Chris Lowden at AVN. She needed help with a project and she knew I was comfortable with adult materials.
                                  Publicist and owner of HighOctaneHeart.com, FetishArtist.net and FetishForLife.com

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                                  • Zuzana Designs
                                    All Your Design Needs
                                    • Feb 2005
                                    • 20896

                                    #18
                                    I streamed on Flirt4Free in 2002!

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                                    • CaptainHowdy
                                      Too lazy to set a custom title
                                      • Dec 2004
                                      • 94727

                                      #19
                                      Made a weird porn banner for a russian guy . . .

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                                      • TheLegacy
                                        SEO & GEO Connoisseur
                                        • Apr 2003
                                        • 18078

                                        #20
                                        In the early 90s I owned a advertising firm and a side project was creating a online magazine for S&M lifestyle called Hush Magazine. Later on I sold both and went to work for Python handling their marketing/sales department along with pushing traffic to the websites. I learned a lot from that experience and enjoyed using the tools at hand for creating traffic and working on the websites to make them enticing not just in appearance but also text. I moved on from there to cams till enjoying acquiring traffic. This was before they created the term SEO - but it still incorporated much of the same techniques and goals which I enjoyed.

                                        My first dollar I would say was from that online magazine sold in and around Toronto.

                                        RobertWarrenSEO.com
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                                        • MakeMeGrrrrowl
                                          Grrrrrrrrr
                                          • Oct 2002
                                          • 4986

                                          #21
                                          Same way I'll make my last dollar. Phone Sex

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                                          • cerulean
                                            Web & App Development
                                            • Oct 2023
                                            • 229

                                            #22
                                            I piped a Craigslist aggregator into my RSS feed and answered a post for a website developer position. Turns out it was for a subscription site. He asked me to really think hard on if I was okay with the industry. I thought about it, and I said that I had no issue with it. They were extremely ethical--awesome people--and we're still friends to this day. It was a great decision to work with them and one of the best clients I've ever had!
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                                            • Rochard
                                              Jägermeister Test Pilot
                                              • Dec 2001
                                              • 75733

                                              #23
                                              Originally posted by Cobra69erss
                                              Lensman with Amateur Pages back in 99... this is not my original GFY account lol
                                              Lensman / ICS reached out to me in 1998 or 1999 asking if I would come to work for them. In fact, it was Tanker. Their office was a few blocks from my house. I actually told Tanker "there was no money in on line porn".

                                              Eventually we hired Tanker at Lightspeed Cash, and then later I would be General Manager of ICS Playboy.

                                              Good times.
                                              Herschel Savage
                                              Brooklyn, NY

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                                              • Sly
                                                Let's do some business!
                                                • Sep 2004
                                                • 31376

                                                #24
                                                Originally posted by fuzebox
                                                Same here. I started submitting freesites when everyone else was doing TGPs and moving into MGPs. First sale with socalcash (naughty america) bookwormbitches.
                                                I had a little TGP2 network for SoCal Coeds that did okay.
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                                                • lezinterracial
                                                  Confirmed User
                                                  • Jul 2012
                                                  • 3117

                                                  #25
                                                  moviedollars/hotmovies.
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                                                  • WiredGuy
                                                    Pounding Googlebot
                                                    • Aug 2002
                                                    • 34512

                                                    #26
                                                    CEN, way way back in the good old days.
                                                    WG
                                                    I play with Google.

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                                                    • shimmy2
                                                      Confirmed User
                                                      • Mar 2009
                                                      • 3271

                                                      #27
                                                      xpics, gammacash, then my own projects
                                                      Make $$$ with Toticos.com! | Email: 1bluemiata@gmail | Joutube: ShimmyCash | Faceberg: ShimmyCash

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                                                      • Jman
                                                        Too lazy to set a custom title
                                                        • Sep 2003
                                                        • 22837

                                                        #28
                                                        I sold naked pictures
                                                        Orkestrait NSFW AI
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                                                        • Jman
                                                          Too lazy to set a custom title
                                                          • Sep 2003
                                                          • 22837

                                                          #29
                                                          Originally posted by WiredGuy
                                                          CEN, way way back in the good old days.
                                                          WG
                                                          FM for the WIN
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                                                          • Publisher Bucks
                                                            Confirmed User
                                                            • Oct 2018
                                                            • 1330

                                                            #30
                                                            Originally posted by Sly
                                                            I did "free sites," like Green Guys and SEO. Could never get AVS or TGP traction.
                                                            Yeah GG&J, PK and The Hun back in the day were solid gold, one listing you could pretty much guarantee $1k in commissions... Damn I'm getting angry at how we killed the business...
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                                                            • clipper
                                                              OG DG
                                                              • Dec 2010
                                                              • 171

                                                              #31
                                                              modified the erotic service section method early 2000s w/ 63% avg conversion rate on a 3 response tier system i setup for my m8s from hs i would pay to sit on work stations and ewhore their ways into converting 5-20 long form cc signs ups & dollar machine kept the funds on a compounding arbitrate scale i was 16 when we started that, i was making 20-40k a month between my partner and I, net net, almost no overhead other than paying my stoner friends from hs who barely could use myspace $10 bucks an hour and little bonuses for converting the most that day....
                                                              hell of a business model - between ry, b, and bberg i think we turned in 17 total chomo's who were convicted & also (if you think about it )subjectively we saved allot of marriages in the area we posted in because at the end of the day Dickhead Dan from Pioria illinois might be pissed off after the conversion was complete / he realized what happened / but he also didnt cheat on his wife that night or bring drip dick back into his house so ... your welcome lads... lmao

                                                              so yeah, that was more or less the first thing we ever full sent project wise in the adult niche as young programmers under our flag (shoutout dg)

                                                              https://web.archive.org/web/20050526...scortsxxx.com/

                                                              behold - the 'agency' lmao


                                                              - annnnnnnd yeah basically it all went pear shaped from there, been going for big air ever since ;)

                                                              cheers tho you guys, whoever reads this, some of my greatest insights & friendships & support has come from random members from GFY over the years, then getting to meet some of you fuckers across the crountry when my other projects would ntersect was a pleasure & thank you for helping me be fortunate enough to have taken the sauce ya'll would give us early on and being in a position now where i am able to help & teach others so i can pay it forward... just, thank you.
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                                                              • natkejs
                                                                Confirmed User
                                                                • Jan 2003
                                                                • 1640

                                                                #32
                                                                first dollar from Adult Check, did ok with AVS / free sites there for a little bit.

                                                                also remember some Australian couple with a this general pay site somehow becoming one of my first sponsors.
                                                                it was cute they would send me a graphic post card with a message together with the payout.
                                                                I seem to remember the first one was a Koala or something, and it had a message "don't spend it all at once"... good times!

                                                                if only I could remember what they called their site, man that was a while ago... jungle something? juicy? who knows.

                                                                Originally posted by shimmy2
                                                                xpics, gammacash, then my own projects
                                                                xpics was the first time I started making any decent money, they were pretty solid there for a moment!

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                                                                • KrisKross
                                                                  Confirmed User
                                                                  • Jan 2006
                                                                  • 5025

                                                                  #33
                                                                  Xpics back in like 1997. I was tinkering with HTML and made a site for a friend that had pics of a few models he liked. Not porn, just bikini and lingerie pics, like Victoria Secret Angels stuff.

                                                                  I think it was hosted on Tripod which only gave 2 MB of storage so I created a bunch of accounts because I kept adding new pictures. After a few months, the site was getting decent traffic because back then, the web was truly "if you build it, they will come".

                                                                  Can't remember how I found out about Xpics. Probably clicked on a banner on a porn site and somehow ended up on their webmasters page. Decided to sign up and throw a few banners on my page and it wasn't long before the first check came in.

                                                                  I think they were paying something like 15 cents a click and would have bonus days where the payout would double. Easy money.

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                                                                  • Tjeezers
                                                                    Webmaster
                                                                    • Mar 2007
                                                                    • 16602

                                                                    #34
                                                                    Minutenmaken.nl Dutch Dialers
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                                                                    • Huggles
                                                                      GFY'S #1 retard
                                                                      • Feb 2003
                                                                      • 12506

                                                                      #35
                                                                      I also made big bank with SexKey early on!
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                                                                      • Forest
                                                                        Confirmed User
                                                                        • Aug 2001
                                                                        • 9135

                                                                        #36
                                                                        Originally posted by WiredGuy
                                                                        CEN, way way back in the good old days.
                                                                        WG
                                                                        I’ll never forgot JoeE taking me to his old house while the new one was being built. I was broke and he gave me a huge bag of weed and a 5K check as a sponsor. Saved my ass.

                                                                        Legendary parties at the new house.

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                                                                        • mechanicvirus
                                                                          Confirmed User
                                                                          • Feb 2005
                                                                          • 4219

                                                                          #37
                                                                          I think it was kates playground or a phil flash sale on ccbill...

                                                                          better first money was the original AFF geo tracking script before they officially let most affiliates use it.

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                                                                          • xxxclusive
                                                                            Confirmed User
                                                                            • Oct 2012
                                                                            • 785

                                                                            #38
                                                                            uploaded a homemade clip to mydirtyhobby in 2010

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                                                                            • djroof
                                                                              JuicyDevils.gr Owner
                                                                              • Jan 2004
                                                                              • 25504

                                                                              #39
                                                                              From a gallery on tgp site, thanks Chameleon Submitter It was a solo girl site.

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                                                                              • geirlur
                                                                                Confirmed User
                                                                                • Aug 2001
                                                                                • 2025

                                                                                #40
                                                                                These are my first checks. Clicktrade was a mainstream sponsor though.

                                                                                $38,09 from Intergal
                                                                                $43,88 from Clicktrade
                                                                                $195,23 from Intergal
                                                                                $101,65 from EzGreen

                                                                                Intergal had paysites and paid 0.21 per click. Ez green paid $1 per email I think. You could just add their form on your site and people would enter their email. Ofc I was tricking people into doing that back then (give me a break, I was literally just a kid.. )
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                                                                                • MatureKing
                                                                                  Confirmed User
                                                                                  • Mar 2006
                                                                                  • 4869

                                                                                  #41
                                                                                  I put coin into the ass
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                                                                                  • gtsix
                                                                                    Confirmed User
                                                                                    • Nov 2020
                                                                                    • 270

                                                                                    #42
                                                                                    I think I pushed some pay per lead programs on chatroulette sites at the time they were still booming, I remember I got the chatroulette method in a 15$ ebook... made tens of thousands with that later on

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                                                                                    • INever
                                                                                      Confirmed User
                                                                                      • Jan 2005
                                                                                      • 4031

                                                                                      #43
                                                                                      .

                                                                                      Those were the days.
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                                                                                      • blackmonsters
                                                                                        Making PHP work
                                                                                        • Nov 2002
                                                                                        • 20961

                                                                                        #44
                                                                                        Originally posted by blackmonsters
                                                                                        AgeCheck.

                                                                                        Ironic that it would be the most needed website now.

                                                                                        Doh! I meant AdultCheck.

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                                                                                        • Nicky
                                                                                          Too lazy to set a custom title
                                                                                          • Mar 2003
                                                                                          • 30071

                                                                                          #45
                                                                                          pay per click with Intergal on a TGP gallery in '99.

                                                                                          gfynicky @ gmail.com

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                                                                                          • Huggles
                                                                                            GFY'S #1 retard
                                                                                            • Feb 2003
                                                                                            • 12506

                                                                                            #46
                                                                                            Originally posted by INever
                                                                                            Those were the days.
                                                                                            I still remember the first time a chick found me and was like "So... you're the porn guy? Can you film me?"

                                                                                            And I was like.... uhh.... who the fuck told you that?!?!?!
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                                                                                            • Shoplifter
                                                                                              Richest man in Babylon
                                                                                              • Jan 2002
                                                                                              • 5845

                                                                                              #47
                                                                                              In late 1999 there was a guy here running ads on TV to promote his paysite and he was losing money. I worked for his host and set up all of his stuff including his IBill pincode software (anyone remember that?).

                                                                                              For me it was clear what he was doing wrong, and I had my own paysite thrown together in about 48 hours. I did some math to calculate retention and rebills and couldn't believe it. And now it's a long time later.

                                                                                              The next question should be: What was your biggest, easiest or wildest score?

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                                                                                              • EddyTheDog
                                                                                                Just Doing My Own Thing
                                                                                                • Jan 2011
                                                                                                • 25433

                                                                                                #48
                                                                                                It was on the AVS progs - I was promoting gay sites and that was where the sweet spot was - They threw their credit cards at me - lol - I miss those days so much ...

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                                                                                                • CaptainHowdy
                                                                                                  Too lazy to set a custom title
                                                                                                  • Dec 2004
                                                                                                  • 94727

                                                                                                  #49
                                                                                                  Originally posted by INever
                                                                                                  .

                                                                                                  Those were the days.

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                                                                                                  • deepinsex
                                                                                                    Confirmed User
                                                                                                    • Oct 2025
                                                                                                    • 44

                                                                                                    #50
                                                                                                    My first is came from vrporn lol.

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