DIY personal website with OF / Fansly subscription functionality?

[Jaylicks510]

Hi, all you awesome people, total noob couple here, literally testing out our lighting and sound, editing our tip menus, making practice content - and of course setting up all our accounts.

We own a great URL and intend to build at least a simple WordPress site, but in the past I've built some decent e-commerce sites on WP and I'm tempted to make ours into a subscription content site that's sort of like an OF or a Fansly, but only for us as a couple, no other creator accounts.

It looks very doable from what I've read so far, but I need to ask this lovely cohort - thoughts? Is it worth paying them their cut?

I'm happy to share info and collaborate if anyone else is doing their own site, trade notes and lessons learned? Or am I crazy and OF is totally worth the 20% cut?

Thanks!!!!

 

[Vixxen81]

If you're balking at a 20% cut for OF, you're gonna be real surprised that you only get 5 cents per token tipped on CB and other token sites.

 

[Jaylicks510]

No I know about all the cuts that the cam sites take, and I'm fine with those, I couldn't build a site anything like those and drive traffic to it. This is just about OF / Fansly type sites.

 

[Vixxen81]

No I know about all the cuts that the cam sites take, and I'm fine with those, I couldn't build a site anything like those and drive traffic to it. This is just about OF / Fansly type sites.

How do you intend on accepting payment?

 

[Jaylicks510]

How do you intend on accepting payment?

I have a lot of experience with woocommerce, that was my first choice, they have a subscription add on but I haven't tried it yet. Familiar?

 

[Jaylicks510]

I have a lot of experience with woocommerce, that was my first choice, they have a subscription add on but I haven't tried it yet. Familiar?

I'd be out a couple points on each CC transaction, $15-$30 per month or so on payed add lbs, hosting, etc.

So let's say I earn $300 per month - on OF I take home $240, with my own site I take home $250-$260, no huge win. But if I make $1000 in a month, OF would pay me out $800 and my site would pay me like $925ish. Depending on how much I end up making, and how long I work, it could be worth a lot in the end...or it could be a collosal pain in the ass and not save me shit. Curious if anyone else has tried it.

 

[Vixxen81]

$249 + $249 for both services for a year. If that's nothing to you, then definitely run it and see what your ROI is. People trust OF, not really sure how much pull wordpress sites have in the land of 2026 when everything is batshit crazy and that seems ancient. There aren't a lot of models on here who make couples content so I'm not sure how to figure that out in a way of earnings potential. I've always been solo even though I'm very married. I do know that couples content can sometimes be harder to get going.

If you do launch it, let us know how it works out? You can be verified on here as models and then talk to us behind the curtain about what you've learned. The only rule on CB that you cannot break with this site is that you cannot offer live broadcasts there while streaming on CB and asking people to move to your site instead.

 

[Jaylicks510]

$249 + $249 for both services for a year. If that's nothing to you, then definitely run it and see what your ROI is. People trust OF, not really sure how much pull wordpress sites have in the land of 2026 when everything is batshit crazy and that seems ancient. There aren't a lot of models on here who make couples content so I'm not sure how to figure that out in a way of earnings potential. I've always been solo even though I'm very married. I do know that couples content can sometimes be harder to get going.

If you do launch it, let us know how it works out? You can be verified on here as models and then talk to us behind the curtain about what you've learned. The only rule on CB that you cannot break with this site is that you cannot offer live broadcasts there while streaming on CB and asking people to move to your site instead.

You're totally on my wavelength! Thanks for the feedback.

My math is basically:

If I start my own site, it will be a ton of work and a couple hundred bucks for the first year. That would also mean I push every potential OF subscriber there instead of OF.

If I end up making $1500/month on OF for even the last 3 months, it's all worth it and I take home way more money at the end of the year. If I do 6 more months, that's another $1800 didn't pay OF, my website costs start feeling tiny, I hire a part time web guy and still come out on top ...and I write off every cent that I don't take home, not sure if you can do that with the 20% OF takes?

So really I'm really just asking if you think a couple earning $1500/month on OF after 9 months is a crazy longshot, or if you'd say "I don't know, if you're sexy and fun on camera and you make all the right moves, $1500 a month on OF by month 10 isn't thaaaat crazy".

And I'm asking all my web nerds out there if they tried it before, what the deal?

 

[Vixxen81]

The one thing you've not examined is using OF as it was designed. Go live on OF and you're making 80% of a different demographic than token sites. Not saying there aren't deadbeat spammers on OF, it's just a different playground. You can have up to three accounts linked together on OF. One for you, one for her, and one for a couples account. Hashtag the hell out of it and you'll be making bank in two weeks.

 

[Jaylicks510]

The one thing you've not examined is using OF as it was designed. Go live on OF and you're making 80% of a different demographic than token sites. Not saying there aren't deadbeat spammers on OF, it's just a different playground. You can have up to three accounts linked together on OF. One for you, one for her, and one for a couples account. Hashtag the hell out of it and you'll be making bank in two weeks.

Yup, you're totally right, I didn't think about it like that, and I mean 20% really is not that bad at all. If, down the road, we get to the point that it would be a huge windfall of cash to have our own site, well re-evaluate that option, but we're already pretty much sold on using OF and Fansly for the foreseeable future.

If a handful of webdesigners, or the cammers that love them) had popped up like "yeah do it, it's worth it!", I would have build one, but we've got enough to do getting started without all that extra work and startup $.

Thanks!!

 

[LilyLaughing]

Things have changed a LOT since I did it, but it was important to have a trusted adult-friendly payment platform (ccbill was the only real option at the time, 15% cut to them), a secure adult-friendly host and if you wanted to compete as a pay site, a solid niche and an affiliate program that provides good promo content and pays 50% to those traffic referrals.

I updated most days, did hardcore content with others + niche nylons content, updated affiliate materials (branded content pages) weekly, and networked like crazy in person at conventions.

It worked at the time (2002-2010ish) but it was WAY more of a pay % than fan sites take these days and a lot more work than most OF models I’ve talked to want to put in, but it worked and rebills created passive income over time. Anyway this info is likely totally out of date, I don’t have the energy to do or look into a whole paysite now, but perhaps some applies and if not, internet porn history is interesting!

 

[ts_cammer98]

One thing OF has that really helps it I think, is that people can subscribe to multiple accounts and have it on their phone in a feed. I think that is major advantage in terms of getting people to pay and follow you there.

Just a thought though lol keep in mind that my onlyfans is shit and I put next to no effort into it. For my most successful months, I did a lot of advertising on reddit and such, and ngl, I can't stand social media stuff.

 

[JesseQuinn69]

OP, listen to Lily. woocommerce is just a shopping card system, you'd still need a bank to actually process the credit cards. to get your own MID you'd need a record of processing at minimum 10k per month, so that's out

CCBill would be your best bet at 15% were you to go that route, along with the lovely 'high risk' Vias and MC fees that come out to $1900 per year just for the joy of accepting credit cards. more info on that here (please note the recent MC raise to $950 up from $500 isn't reflected on that link yet, the raise in cost just got implemented a few days ago). if you get a chargeback, be prepared to pay a $25 per cb fee

card processing in adult is expensive as hell, not just for the usual puritanical reasons but cuz adult got a really (deservedly) bad rep in the early days for banging cards/shady cross sales, etc)

like Lily, I'm writing this from experience as someone who did (happily) go the self-processing route, but that was with my own MID. tbh going the CCBill route wouldn't have really been worth it just for an extra 5% over a site like Fansly. what you decide is up to you, of course, I'm just saying what Fansly provides is extremely well worth it if you weigh the costs and benefits (particularly since Fansly, unlike OF, actually has internal traffic)

creating a wp subscription site would be easy, it's the card processing that's a huge hurdle and PITA

good luck whatever you decide

 

[ElGato]

OP, listen to Lily. woocommerce is just a shopping card system, you'd still need a bank to actually process the credit cards. to get your own MID you'd need a record of processing at minimum 10k per month, so that's out

CCBill would be your best bet at 15% were you to go that route, along with the lovely 'high risk' Vias and MC fees that come out to $1900 per year just for the joy of accepting credit cards. more info on that here (please note the recent MC raise to $950 up from $500 isn't reflected on that link yet, the raise in cost just got implemented a few days ago). if you get a chargeback, be prepared to pay a $25 per cb fee

card processing in adult is expensive as hell, not just for the usual puritanical reasons but cuz adult got a really (deservedly) bad rep in the early days for banging cards/shady cross sales, etc)

like Lily, I'm writing this from experience as someone who did (happily) go the self-processing route, but that was with my own MID. tbh going the CCBill route wouldn't have really been worth it just for an extra 5% over a site like Fansly. what you decide is up to you, of course, I'm just saying what Fansly provides is extremely well worth it if you weigh the costs and benefits (particularly since Fansly, unlike OF, actually has internal traffic)

creating a wp subscription site would be easy, it's the card processing that's a huge hurdle and PITA

good luck whatever you decide

^^^This!
I ran a small WebDev agency 10+ yrs.
Another major hurdle you are going to run into is GOOD web hosting that allows porn. To serve up video content well you need some powerful backend cloud systems and lots of disk space. Think something along the lines of Digital Ocean, Vultr, Google Cloud or AWS... Digital Ocean allows adult content that abides by state and federal law and regulations. Vultr is pretty much the same. AWS...Not so much... Google, also not real adult friendly.
If you wanted to use a Digital Ocean or Vultr stack, it requires some server admin chops as well as some intermediary services.
There are front end services that make it easier to manage Digital Ocean or Vultr such as Cloudways who I highly recommend. https://www.cloudways.com/
But you will need a dedicated beefy plan with a server that has high RAM and CPU as well as a flexible amount of Storage.
Definitely not anything you'll find on GoDaddy, Bluehost, HostGator or similar.
I've built similar platforms that sold PPV tutorial videos with WooCommerce so that front-end part is possible. Hosting will be a big expense as well as the payment processing as mentioned above

 

[LilyLaughing]

^^^This!
I ran a small WebDev agency 10+ yr

But you will need a dedicated beefy plan with a server that has high RAM and CPU as well as a flexible amount of Storage.

I didn’t address this much in my post because I don’t know enough! But we had a dedicated server hosting set-up; my late husband was also a web dev and sold hosting to a few clients which kinda defrayed that cost for us. He had to do all the server maintenance himself though, so I don’t mean to diminish the effort or cost of this part of things, I just didn’t learn much about it.

 

[JesseQuinn69]

^^^This!
I ran a small WebDev agency 10+ yrs.
Another major hurdle you are going to run into is GOOD web hosting that allows porn. To serve up video content well you need some powerful backend cloud systems and lots of disk space. Think something along the lines of Digital Ocean, Vultr, Google Cloud or AWS... Digital Ocean allows adult content that abides by state and federal law and regulations. Vultr is pretty much the same. AWS...Not so much... Google, also not real adult friendly.
If you wanted to use a Digital Ocean or Vultr stack, it requires some server admin chops as well as some intermediary services.
There are front end services that make it easier to manage Digital Ocean or Vultr such as Cloudways who I highly recommend. https://www.cloudways.com/
But you will need a dedicated beefy plan with a server that has high RAM and CPU as well as a flexible amount of Storage.
Definitely not anything you'll find on GoDaddy, Bluehost, HostGator or similar.
I've built similar platforms that sold PPV tutorial videos with WooCommerce so that front-end part is possible. Hosting will be a big expense as well as the payment processing as mentioned above

lol, I didn't even get that far. between processing and hosting yeah, no way to end up with more money in pocket as a solo producer doing non-MID (merchant account) volumes. am NOT knocking your income whatsoever OP, your income from sub sites is awesome and you should be hella proud of it

in terms of adult hosting I always think of MojoHost (my fav, I cannot heap enough praise on them), Vacares or TMDHosting (kinda expensive but they have a killer service), never heard of CloudWays

checked out their site and the prices are quite competitive for non-managed 'beefy' (I don't know why that word is so funny to me, know the word is much older but reminds me of 'beefcake' and stuck in the 1950's on that one). not useful to the OP at this point, nor me who doesn't host more than a handful of vids on my sites, but wicked to have another adult-friendly host to add to the roster as there are so few. gracias


back to OP: hope you don't think we're tryna dissuade you from doing your own thing or knocking you. it's just basic math. what may make sense is just creating a simple website with links to your various sites, you could have one for each page or (better for client usage) one page with a series of drop links you can add the the top menu. that way you can prioritize the site(s) you tend to do prefer/do best on and by content type, and adjust as/if needs change. or group by content styles and sites 'pon which you offer specific niches, etc etc

also clips sites links. if you're not posting your vids on IWC and C4S you're leaving a lot of money on the table. I don't have anything nice to say about MV/YV so I'll leave that at that

again, good luck with whatever you decide to do! in terms of a sub site though? LF or Fansly are your best bets for internal traffic and the most money in your pocket

PS love your indy spirit