- Sep 28, 2017
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I don't know what a good opener for this thread would be. So, let me give you a little bit of background about myself.
Background
I've been a lurker of the BHW community for about three years now, and I've yet to make a dollar over the internet. I am a programmer and a music enthusiast who mostly worked in a 9-5 environment.
About a year ago, I decided to start a company with a friend of mine (who I used to work with on several different occasions before actually planning to start the company). Unfortunately, he scammed me for a total sum of $5k (which has quite a lot of value in our country). But he also taught me a great lesson about my interactions with others (which I might open up about it in a separate thread, as it's not related to this topic).
Long story short, after a couple of years of lurking the community and two or three failed joint ventures, I'm here trying my luck again in Reddit marketing.
Objective and Milestones
The goal of this journey is to create a network of adult subreddits in different niches and monetize them using direct advertisements on a middle-man tube website.
The milestones are not clear, as I am not quite sure about the right time to monetize the network. Generally speaking, the number that I am looking for is about $2k on a monthly basis from ten subreddits.
What I've done already?
In the past couple of months, I've developed a quite complex software to automate/semi-automate most of the tasks that I was doing on Reddit at that time. The software includes a bunch of features fine-tuned for connecting the adult-industry to the platform. Some of the features are as follows:
Note: to be honest, at first, I was thinking about creating a SaaS from the software, and after seeing its capabilities, I've decided not to do so.
Apart from the software, in the past two weeks, I've started a subreddit and grown it to about 20k members (the niche I shall not reveal, but It's not general porn). Although the subreddit is quite active in terms of upvote and interaction, there aren't that many posts to leave it to grow naturally.
In recent days, I've also recovered a piece of software that automated account creation, which I wrote almost a year ago. The software helps me to create about 25 accounts every day (over a period of 40 minutes), but I am not willing to push the software extremely hard, as it might be detected by the Reddit.
There are also a total number of 20 left-over aged accounts (from the previous testings), which are not warmed-up yet. I'm planning to use them for vote manipulation (I know it's against the TOS, but I'm curious about learning more about Reddit's algorithms).
Note: Yesterday, I tried vote manipulation, and It worked, but today after trying the same interactions, the post disappeared from the subreddit. However, It was still available using a direct link, and I verified that my account wasn't suspended nor shadowbanned.
Question: Does anyone have any ideas on the preceding matter?
The to-do list
Conclusion
Hopefully, I stick to the end of this project and start making some dollars. One shall become blue as soon as it's possible.
Background
I've been a lurker of the BHW community for about three years now, and I've yet to make a dollar over the internet. I am a programmer and a music enthusiast who mostly worked in a 9-5 environment.
About a year ago, I decided to start a company with a friend of mine (who I used to work with on several different occasions before actually planning to start the company). Unfortunately, he scammed me for a total sum of $5k (which has quite a lot of value in our country). But he also taught me a great lesson about my interactions with others (which I might open up about it in a separate thread, as it's not related to this topic).
Long story short, after a couple of years of lurking the community and two or three failed joint ventures, I'm here trying my luck again in Reddit marketing.
Objective and Milestones
The goal of this journey is to create a network of adult subreddits in different niches and monetize them using direct advertisements on a middle-man tube website.
The milestones are not clear, as I am not quite sure about the right time to monetize the network. Generally speaking, the number that I am looking for is about $2k on a monthly basis from ten subreddits.
What I've done already?
In the past couple of months, I've developed a quite complex software to automate/semi-automate most of the tasks that I was doing on Reddit at that time. The software includes a bunch of features fine-tuned for connecting the adult-industry to the platform. Some of the features are as follows:
- Integration with multiple websites, including PH.
- Integration with several upload centers, including RedGIFs.
- Built-in video editor for quickly creating short previews and watermarking.
- Built-in reverse image search (using Google).
- Automatic cross-posting from one community to another.
- Image/video scheduling.
- Ability to manage multiple accounts.
Note: to be honest, at first, I was thinking about creating a SaaS from the software, and after seeing its capabilities, I've decided not to do so.
Apart from the software, in the past two weeks, I've started a subreddit and grown it to about 20k members (the niche I shall not reveal, but It's not general porn). Although the subreddit is quite active in terms of upvote and interaction, there aren't that many posts to leave it to grow naturally.
In recent days, I've also recovered a piece of software that automated account creation, which I wrote almost a year ago. The software helps me to create about 25 accounts every day (over a period of 40 minutes), but I am not willing to push the software extremely hard, as it might be detected by the Reddit.
There are also a total number of 20 left-over aged accounts (from the previous testings), which are not warmed-up yet. I'm planning to use them for vote manipulation (I know it's against the TOS, but I'm curious about learning more about Reddit's algorithms).
Note: Yesterday, I tried vote manipulation, and It worked, but today after trying the same interactions, the post disappeared from the subreddit. However, It was still available using a direct link, and I verified that my account wasn't suspended nor shadowbanned.
Question: Does anyone have any ideas on the preceding matter?
The to-do list
- Improving the software and improving the UI's efficiency.
- Improving the FFMPEG render time. [I still don't know how]
- Researching other sub-niches to get the other nine subreddits going.
- Adding a way to track my progress (maybe by using this thread?)
- Try finding a way to improve my video editing efficiency. (that one subreddit alone takes about two hours a day to maintain)
- Continue creating/warming-up accounts for later / or scratch the vote manipulation entirely (I cannot decide yet, and any suggestions are welcomed, especially about warming-up)
- Automating/semi-automating the website
Conclusion
Hopefully, I stick to the end of this project and start making some dollars. One shall become blue as soon as it's possible.
