Starting my tube site. Follow my journey

Hey! Ive been in the NSFW niche for a little over a year now but ive been exclusively into discord/telegram and content locking mostly. I made a great amount of money ive saved up but now i want to move to something more real since discord nsfw is getting harder and harder by the day.

So i had an idea to make a tube site. I already have a pretty fair amount of traffic i can funnel to the website and i have a few ideas on how to bring even more.

What im concerned about is how i should build the site. Which adult script would you guys suggest me to use?
Im thinking of WP-Script but i dont know how up to date it is nowdays
Im really not sure as to what else i would need to run a tube site.

Would appreciate if anyone experienced can take a moment to link me some threads to look into or give me a little info as to how i can get started

btcs69 said:

Hey! Ive been in the NSFW niche for a little over a year now but ive been exclusively into discord/telegram and content locking mostly. I made a great amount of money ive saved up but now i want to move to something more real since discord nsfw is getting harder and harder by the day.

So i had an idea to make a tube site. I already have a pretty fair amount of traffic i can funnel to the website and i have a few ideas on how to bring even more.

What im concerned about is how i should build the site. Which adult script would you guys suggest me to use?
Im thinking of WP-Script but i dont know how up to date it is nowdays
Im really not sure as to what else i would need to run a tube site.

Would appreciate if anyone experienced can take a moment to link me some threads to look into or give me a little info as to how i can get started

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If you've already got traffic, that's honestly the hardest part solved.

I'd keep it simple at first. WP-Script can still work, but don't get too caught up chasing the perfect script. The bigger challenge is getting traffic to convert and figuring out monetization.

Start with something easy to manage, see how your traffic performs, and then upgrade the setup as the site grows. No point spending months building the perfect site before you know what actually works.

WP-Script would work fine. There's a lot of successful tube sites that uses it. However, if you want more control then go custom but that may be overkill.
Even ai like Claude code can design a pretty decent tube site using nextjs, php or a WP theme. You'll just have to deal with prompting it to get rid of slop.

I pretty much got everything. Hosting the site set up with ads and all. I cant really figure out how to upload videos to bunny storage and embedding them on my site.. If anyone can help please reply here i would appreciate it alot

btcs69 said:

I pretty much got everything. Hosting the site set up with ads and all. I cant really figure out how to upload videos to bunny storage and embedding them on my site.. If anyone can help please reply here i would appreciate it alot

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I use wp-script with retrotube btw i forgot to mention

btcs69 said:

I use wp-script with retrotube btw i forgot to mention

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I think you’re looking at the wrong Bunny product.

Bunny Storage is just raw file storage. So if you upload an MP4 there, you still have to connect it to a Pull Zone before you get a real usable video URL. That can work, but for a tube site, Bunny Stream is probably the better option. Bunny Stream handles the video side for you. It transcodes the video, creates thumbnails, and gives you a player.

Go to Bunny dashboard, Stream, then Add Video Library (something like that).

Upload your video through the dashboard, I think you can use FTP or API upload if you’re doing a lot of videos (not sure though).
Bunny will process the video and encode it into multiple resolutions.
read this: https://docs.bunny.net/stream/embedding#how-to-embed-a-video
In RetroTube, add a new video, choose Embed type, then paste the iframe. That’s it.
Now if you specifically want to use Bunny Storage with your own player, that’s the self-hosted MP4 route.
Create a Storage Zone and upload the MP4 through FTP, dashboard, or API.
Then create a Pull Zone and connect it to that Storage Zone.
After that, your file should be available at something like: https://yourzone.b-cdn.net/yourvideo.mp4

In RetroTube, add the video as Selfhosted video file and paste that .b-cdn.net MP4 URL. The HTML5 player should pick it up.

Most of the time, Bunny Stream is the better unless you have a specific reason to manage raw MP4 files yourself. Also, make sure you enable the Token Auth on the zone so people can’t just rip your videos directly.

I'd recommend KVS (Kernel Video Sharing). It's stable, feature-rich, and specifically designed for video sites.