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I run https://aliveai.app a large uncensored (i.e. adult) AI image and video generator.

It started as a small side project but slowly grew every month and recently exploded to well over 50k USD revenue per month. It's fun to have a large community of paying users but honestly I never thought out of all my side projects this one will make it.

I am still a one man show managing everything from development, marketing, customer support and content moderation. If I am honest the money is nice but I am severely burnt out and not sure if I can or want to do this much longer. It is a 24/7 job and I miss the days where I can just sit down and code a nice feature that people will like. Also looking at NSFW content all day kind of messes with your mental health.

I had some discussions of potential buyers but selling something for less than its monthly revenue seems crazy so I am still here trying to do my best and waiting for the right exit.

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Hey! Would you consider trialing some help, even part-time initially, and pro-bono, to see how it goes? As a developer since childhood, and product manager for most of my career, with (I dare say) some out-of-the-box, simplicity, "cheap is best" professional deviation, and sex-positivity in my personal and artistic life, maybe there's something we can get together on? Give me a shout! zenojevski at gmail dot com, or https slash slash zeno dot love. At the very least we can have some fun and maybe keep writing :D Zeno

Have you considered hiring someone to reduce the load of repetitive tasks?

For a while I was looking for a non-technical co-founder, but I found it difficult to find someone who is both skilled and motivated in the adult content domain.

I am currently rewriting the user role and permission system with the goal of introducing a moderator role in the future that has limited, moderator-only access rights. At the moment, there are only admin and regular user roles.

Even with this in place I am unsure where to advertise for an NSFW content moderator position.

That's interesting! I didn't know this could be such a barrier. Is this because of the potential impact on mental health? Or just because people wouldn't like to be publicly associated with NSFW content in any way?

While job hunting years ago, I got approached by a company running adult websites. They seemed to be pretty relaxed about it and they were multiple candidates for the position. There were advertising through LinkedIn as just any similar small business.

5 years working in adult on the tech side. Username at gmail.

Hi dubme1, ping me info at "eez" + "ness" dot com, re: convo on sale options.

wish you a good exit and return back to days when you did that: "I miss the days where I can just sit down and code a nice feature that people will like"

Thank you for the post. It once again reminded me how important it is to choose a pet project that aligns with your personal values.

Why would you ever admit to such a thing? Don’t you have any shame? It’s odd you admit looking at NSFW content all day messes with your mental health but I guess it’s ok since you make 50k and the women in your life aren’t having AI porn generated of them.

I am looking at the content for moderation purposes and customer support. Not sure why saying that this affects me mentally should be a bad thing.

Also maybe you missunderstood what AliveAi.app is. It is strictly a on-platform AI generation. We do not allow editing of user uploaded content (i.e. deepfake) for obvious reasons.

“ I am looking at the content for moderation purposes and customer support.” Commendable to roll up your sleeves and wade through the mess you created I suppose.

“We do not allow editing of user uploaded content” Wait until you find out how these models are trained!

Why should he be shameful. Porn is considered entertainment industry. People use technology to do whatever they want dude. Its not like he is using it to kill someone.

Seriously, there are way too many Whiners on HN

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