Building an Ad Network from scratch

• Twitter/X accounts & shoutouts
• Niche sites sponsorships
• Paid placements in Telegram & Discord groups
• Collabs with OnlyFans creators, indie creators, streamers — anyone with an audience and no fear

• Indie monetization
• Full-stack development
• Building outside the system
• And trying to print money without asking permission

Godzillion said:

Hey guys,

So I’ve decided to build something kinda wild: a programmatic ad network for “banned” stuff: adult content, gambling, alcohol, and all the spicy niches that Google and Meta don’t want anything to do with.

These industries print money, have paying audiences, but they’re still stuck with sketchy popunders and garbage traffic. I think we can do way better.

Instead of playing by the old rules, I’m going off-road with:

• Twitter/X accounts & shoutouts
• Niche sites sponsorships
• Paid placements in Telegram & Discord groups
• Collabs with OnlyFans creators, indie creators, streamers — anyone with an audience and no fear

The idea? A lightweight ad network powered by an alternative distribution method. Less bureaucracy, more results.

I’m building the whole thing myself, dashboards, targeting, analytics, billing... everything! And yeah, I fully expect this to make a fuck ton of money. Not overnight, but eventually. The potential here is massive.

And even if it flops? I’ll walk away way smarter, with real stories. That’s a win in my book.

I’ll post weekly updates here: builds, fails, traffic tests, sketchy wins, and random thoughts.

If you’ve ever worked with or run campaigns on adult ad networks like TrafficJunky, JuicyAds, ExoClick, etc drop a comment!
Any red flags? Tips? Common pitfalls? Stuff you wish you knew before? Help brighten up this thread for all of us diving into the chaos

Follow along if you're into:

• Indie monetization
• Full-stack development
• Building outside the system
• And trying to print money without asking permission

Let’s fkn go

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HenryObi said:

I'm curious to see how this goes. Good luck on your journey.

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natsuko said:

Just make sure your billing system ain’t sketchy af, that’s where most flop.

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ZooRick said:

Something different for once. Hope you update this thread regularly and good luck!

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• I've been designing the database schemas with every relation that I will need.
• Starting to set up a payment provider aggregator (I won't depend on a single payment gateway but multiple of them so the payment can be re-routed if anything goes wrong)
• Learnt all the models and jargon used here: CPM, CPC, CPA, CPL, CPI, CPV, CPX, Flat rate... I guess I'll simplify it.
• The goal is to keep the platform extremely simple and intuitive: both for advertisers creating a campaign, and for publishers who want to add their distribution channels. I really want to avoid making it bloated like most ad networks.
• I'm also planning to include some light AI-powered features, like automated A/B testing for creatives to see what performs best.
• Still figuring out how to do distribution and outreach to attract both publishers and advertisers. My idea for now is to manually contact big Telegram channels and groups, and offer them to add my bot as admin. The bot would automatically post ads in the right language and category, and delete them after a few minutes to keep the feed clean. We'd track clicks and impressions per post.
• Also .com domain secured! I've been developing the user facing interface and backend server logic.
• Wrapping my head around how to make a robust ad server.
• Evaluating different ad-serving approaches, iframes, script tags, api for mobile/social (telegram, X...), websockets for live video (camsites).
• Oh, also considering vector similarity for serving relevant ads! I've always wanted to use this approach and now I have the opportunity to use it

Rankmathseo said:

Sounds like an ambitious and bold move! I’m all for disrupting the status quo. Wishing you the best of luck with the build—looking forward to the updates!

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zocx said:

I like the telegram ads idea, i have a few small telegram channels, but giving admin to a random bot i don't want personally ... hope you can make it in a way so we can use our own telegram bots if we want

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