[journey] Starting an adult tube website

As if the internet needs more adult tube site... yet here I am!

I've been inspired by a few journeys that I am following here: https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/journey-growing-small-niche-adult-tube-and-make-100-day.1811548/ and https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/ama-making-20k-month-with-3-adult-tube-sites-ask-me-anything.1800158/

I tried to dabble in the porn nice adult site sector a few years back and even bought a wp-script license for the retro tube theme. I got bored pretty fast tho and never really powered through the first steps.

Now in 2026 with AI allowing me to automate lots of stuff, I decided to give it another go. I have a software engineering background with many years of experience and AI just obviously 100x my productivity. My focus is to automate as much as I can and so far it's been a fun technical journey.

What I've done so far:
- Found one specific niche to focus on
- Built an automation pipeline for video sourcing and SEO metadata generation
- Bought domain name on Njalla
- Bought dedicated server on Alexhost (videos and website hosted there)
- Using bunny.net for CDN
- Vibe coded the website by reverse engineering the wp-script to get inspiration
- Approved about ~250 videos so far to the live website
- Setup monetization with Exoclick for now (popunder, banners, in-stream VAST)

I just deployed the whole thing live today and setup google search console and analytics. Let's see how indexation goes.

I am learning as I go here and hoping to eventually be able to generate a bit of revenu from this journey. All the videos have to be manually approved before they get posted, so I'm going for quality over quantity.

Happy to answer questions and I'll try to post updates regularily.

Good luck and I hope to see the updates

cs1492 said:

As if the internet needs more adult tube site... yet here I am!

I've been inspired by a few journeys that I am following here: this one and that one

I tried to dabble in the porn nice adult site sector a few years back and even bought a wp-script license for the retro tube theme. I got bored pretty fast tho and never really powered through the first steps.

Now in 2026 with AI allowing me to automate lots of stuff, I decided to give it another go. I have a software engineering background with many years of experience and AI just obviously 100x my productivity. My focus is to automate as much as I can and so far it's been a fun technical journey.

What I've done so far:
- Found one specific niche to focus on
- Built an automation pipeline for video sourcing and SEO metadata generation
- Bought domain name on Njalla
- Bought dedicated server on Alexhost (videos and website hosted there)
- Using bunny.net for CDN
- Vibe coded the website by reverse engineering the wp-script to get inspiration
- Approved about ~250 videos so far to the live website
- Setup monetization with Exoclick for now (popunder, banners, in-stream VAST)

I just deployed the whole thing live today and setup google search console and analytics. Let's see how indexation goes.

I am learning as I go here and hoping to eventually be able to generate a bit of revenu from this journey. All the videos have to be manually approved before they get posted, so I'm going for quality over quantity.

Happy to answer questions and I'll try to post updates regularily.

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Best of Luck

All the best with it! Looking forward to following your progress.

I’m following this journey of you…

Here's a short update.

It's been only 4 days site the site is live, so the numbers are quite... unimpressive to say the least. But it's a start! Google is still indexing my pages and I am trying my best to provide the best SEO for it to index everything (proper sitemaps.xml and such). I've been reading that it can take up to a few weeks for the organic indexing to happen. Despite this, my analytics does show that most of my traffic is coming from Google.

I've also added a few more sources (big tube sites) to the automation pipeline. I got about ~25 videos a day to review for live deployment in the last 3 days. Again, I'm thinking a bit more "quality over quantity".

This is a learning process for me. If I can make even 10 bucks this month I'll be happy!

Hopefully once the indexing is good, the organic visits will grow significantly.