My journey on making a hentai anime website fully on autopilot

[Assclown]

Hello
I am going to document my journey on starting a fully automated hentai anime website. The journey has just begun, this is day 1, I have always wanted to start a project and document it for everyone to read.

The website is done in php and has been made in 2days using AI (DeepSeek). It is being hosted on a shared plan together with my other websites, meaning we could say it's technically free. Domain has been registered and costed ~$15. There are currently no ads, but the goal is to place banner ads and pop-ups via ExoClick.

The biggest worry that everyone has with these kinds of project is the costs, especially video hosting. This won't be a worry of mine, because I am going to use Hentai Ocean's free API and their embed videos, meaning cost of video hosting will be $0! The API data will be pulled hourly via a cronjob script.

Goals/Tasks:
Day 1: Submit the website to Google/Bing
Day 1-3: Create some old-fashioned comment backlinks to help rank the website name onto the first page (Shouldnt be hard with this name)
Day 4: Implement ExoClick ads
Day 4-10: Promote website on social media to make it more publically known
Day 10-15: Get more (quality) backlinks done and submit website to free directories
Day 15-30: Promote even more, do link exchange with other websites
Day 30: Achieve $30 in earnings, which will signal this project as a successful growing start
Day 60: Earning more than +$50/mo doing nothing

I will do this without spending money, making the $15 domain my only expense for this project. I want to prove that making profit from a hentai website is still possible in 2026 with low effort and zero maintenance!

How to avoid duplicates when pulling the api hourly and seeding the db

 

[tieperson]

The way I have it set is to read the RSS feed, and if the slug (called guid on RSS) isn't on my database, use the fetch API to get all the data, then store it. If the slug is already on my database, the entry already exists and it's a duplicate.

 

[tieperson]

8 more days until I reach the day where I set the goal of earning $30 after 30days. I have been busy with Christmas and New Year, but here is the stats right now:

Unique visitors: 688
Pageviews: 2540
Today's earnings: 2€ (best day, usually it's around 0.2-1€)
Total earned: 13€

I am break-even, now the rest is all profits. It's theoretically possible that it reaches the goal on the 30th day, but I am overall happy with my autopilot website. I am looking forward to see how much it can make with minimal effort. You might say $30/month isnt worth it, but that's not the point. It's about documenting the journey of starting a autopilot hentai website made with AI that is using a 3rdp API that embeds all the videos (meaning no hosting costs). Anyone can do it!

 

[The SEO]

Looks good. Which hosting do you use? Are there DCMA Notice issues?

 

[tieperson]

Looks good. Which hosting do you use? Are there DCMA Notice issues?

Website hosting is on a cheap shared plan. No DMCA issues, since all videos are embedded from Hentai Ocean.

 

[tieperson]

30days have passed, this is the result.

Ad stats:
- 40€ earned
- 205k total ad impressions

Analytics:
- 12k unique visitors
- 46k pageviews
- mostly from Google

First earning milestone achieved, I will let you know how it goes next month. I won't do any more backlinking stuff, and I didn't manage to find a good link exchange, this is running purely off Google traffic.

 

[ecchigo]

It’s honestly sad seeing how low my country’s CPM is. The gap between Tier-1 and Tier-3 CPMs is just massive.

 

[Menstarm]

Great journey, I'm following. Keep updating us please.

 

[Assclown]

It’s honestly sad seeing how low my country’s CPM is. The gap between Tier-1 and Tier-3 CPMs is just massive.

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Are you translating it into your country's language?

 

[tieperson]

It’s honestly sad seeing how low my country’s CPM is. The gap between Tier-1 and Tier-3 CPMs is just massive.

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Ouch! That one really hurts.

I am sure you have tried out many things to increase Tier-3 revenue, but let me recommend you A-Ads for display ads. They are very forgiving to low-tier countries, and they have many crypto casinos as advertisers ready to put money, even for Indonesia. On a different project, I have A-Ads with $0.07 CPM for US and $0.02 for Indonesia. But it's not effective to ad-stack with it (having multiple display ads in one page from A-Ads), try a single display ad and let me know if it works out well!

 

[PTPrivateProxies]

how is it going for you? thats a thing i can see myself working with in the future

 

[tieperson]

What type of backlinks do you build for your site?

It is mainly blog comment backlinks. Just to give the search engines the signal that the website exists and is alive. I only recommend doing this for the first few months so that they start indexing you well.

how is it going for you? thats a thing i can see myself working with in the future

Still going well! It's truly a "build-and-forget" money earning method.

 

[metlivewin]

It is mainly blog comment backlinks. Just to give the search engines the signal that the website exists and is alive. I only recommend doing this for the first few months so that they start indexing you well.


Still going well! It's truly a "build-and-forget" money earning method.

how do you find those blogs to comment in? Wouldn't the links be nofollow? Thanks

It's a great journey, you made a good amount of money in a short period of time. Do you mainly get your views from seo? if so, how did you manage to rank in such a short amount of time? Just sheer amount of content?

 

[tieperson]

how do you find those blogs to comment in? Wouldn't the links be nofollow? Thanks

It's a great journey, you made a good amount of money in a short period of time. Do you mainly get your views from seo? if so, how did you manage to rank in such a short amount of time? Just sheer amount of content?

Yes, that is pretty much it. As long as your website has the basic SEO setup (adding video name to the title, respecting the character limits, description, h1, sitemap, etc), you are pretty much set.

After that, on launch, you make some comment backlinks (doesn't really matter if follow or nofollow) so that search engines know you exist. And you can also register to their webmaster tools.

To find blogs to comment, I use the old trick of going to Google and searching keyword+string that a comment section has.

example: hentai "Leave a comment. (log in optional)"

I also suggest to post on Reddit and X. The goal is to have users visit your website and then use it the next day. And as with content, make sure to use Hentai Ocean's API to get the description as well, not just the title, image and embed link.

 

[cdestudios]

Best of luck to you. I'm trying to get into some NSFW niches myself.

 

[rahattt]

Hello
I am going to document my journey on starting a fully automated hentai anime website. The journey has just begun, this is day 1, I have always wanted to start a project and document it for everyone to read.

The website is done in php and has been made in 2days using AI (DeepSeek). It is being hosted on a shared plan together with my other websites, meaning we could say it's technically free. Domain has been registered and costed ~$15. There are currently no ads, but the goal is to place banner ads and pop-ups via ExoClick.

The biggest worry that everyone has with these kinds of project is the costs, especially video hosting. This won't be a worry of mine, because I am going to use Hentai Ocean's free API and their embed videos, meaning cost of video hosting will be $0! The API data will be pulled hourly via a cronjob script.

Goals/Tasks:
Day 1: Submit the website to Google/Bing
Day 1-3: Create some old-fashioned comment backlinks to help rank the website name onto the first page (Shouldnt be hard with this name)
Day 4: Implement ExoClick ads
Day 4-10: Promote website on social media to make it more publically known
Day 10-15: Get more (quality) backlinks done and submit website to free directories
Day 15-30: Promote even more, do link exchange with other websites
Day 30: Achieve $30 in earnings, which will signal this project as a successful growing start
Day 60: Earning more than +$50/mo doing nothing

I will do this without spending money, making the $15 domain my only expense for this project. I want to prove that making profit from a hentai website is still possible in 2026 with low effort and zero maintenance!

Bro can you guide me how you created the website and can you give me you website link to visit, I will be very happy if you guide me sir

 

[Yuu]

¡Hola tieperson!

wow, embarking on this kind of journey is like jumping into the deep end, isn't it? Love the ambition, and using DeepSeek to spin up a site in 2 days is next-level wizardry. it's like you've got the magic touch. ‍

just imagine, in a few months, sitting back and watching the bank grow while you sip something cold. that's what we all dream of in IM, right? you've got the vision, now it's just about steady execution— and you’ve hit all the right initial steps.

here's a tiny breadcrumb from an OG: while those comment backlinks are good for starters, don't sleep on niche forums. that’s where the real magic happens. Ahem, not that I'm spoon-feeding you, but think of it as a gentle nudge from someone who's been around the block.

remember, the key is subtlety. let them come to you. you're not just another site; you're the next big thing in the niche, and everyone will soon know it.

keep us posted. can't wait to celebrate your first $50—feels like just the beginning of something huge.

stay sharp, amigo.

 

[tieperson]

Small update on this!

The website has its ups and downs, currently averaging 1€/day, meaning 30€/month. It's not much, but it's also not nothing. Personally, I am happy

Some asked here or via DMs what my prompt was, I think DeepSeek has evolved and become much smarter, you should have a website running with a prompt like this:

You are an expert php developer. Using this API (https://hentaiocean.com/api-docs), create a hentai website. Let's call the website Sexy Hentai

1) Store the data from the API into MariaDB, a cron job will run every 1h to add and update entries.

2) Show recent videos in the front page. Grab the 16:9 thumbnail image from the API and store it in a folder called "thumbnails" via cron job. Always check if the thumbnail is broken or missing, if it is, dont store the entry yet, let the next cron job check and retry.

3) Count each videoviews, and display them in the UI

4) Track when the cronjob updated the entry last via DB. Check added entries every 48h to check if there is an update.

5) Show the following pages: New (new videos that got added), Most Views, Genres, Random (not paginated, add a "Refresh" button at the bottom). And add a search bar on the header

6) Make sure to paginate whenever possible

7) Homepage shows a little of everything. Make it show, in order, videos from the following: New, Most Views, Uncensored Genre, Random. Each of these sections show a title that is clickable to its own page.

8) Create a password protected admin page that shows analytics on how many views each video has. Password stored in config.php. Make it fancy and have it allow us see the views daily, weekly, monthly, total. Allow us to click or search the video to see the views again - daily, weekly, monthly, total. Add a graph as well.

Note: I tried this prompt today and it worked well, but back then DeepSeek wouldnt read the API webpage directly, so I had to copy paste the whole page onto the prompt. If that happens, now you know what to do!

Also on DeepSeek, activate Export mode, Deep Thinking, Smart Search! DeepSeek is free, but you can also do this on ChatGPT Codex or Claude, I heard they are smart AIs too.

 

[zocx]

Hentai niche is not really well paid in ads compared to other niches. The traffic is high, but the conversion is not very good I have around 25k unique visitors per day in the hentai niche, so I kind of know how it works. $1 per day is not bad—scale that 20–30x and you can make $20–$30 per day

 

[Assclown]

Hentai niche is not really well paid in ads compared to other niches. The traffic is high, but the conversion is not very good I have around 25k unique visitors per day in the hentai niche, so I kind of know how it works. $1 per day is not bad—scale that 20–30x and you can make $20–$30 per day

How much do u earn in a day from the 25 k visits?

Also, where do you store the files? Do you have a dedicated vps or are u relying on third parties?