No.11870
Decided it's time to get this done.
The idea is that this will have all my games, videos, and other assorted fetish faggotry on it for free, side-stepping the C4S route and running based off the Patreon or PayPal donations. I don't expect this to generate enough income to become a source of profit, but generating enough cash to keep online and hopefully kick towards paying for models for future shoots.
Edit: It's done and paid for.
http://www.piedmontlaughriot.com/models/
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No.11872
Wouldn't it be cheaper to just use Tumbler and tag all your stuff for easy locating? Has the benefit of costing you nothing but time and you can link just about anything, while keeping anything you want to charge a patreon fee for to yourself for private distribution. Lot of home made porn producers do that.
No.11881
>>11872
Yes. But I don't wanna mess around with that anymore. I want a nice, easy to navigate and reliable. I already had Tumblrs in the past and just didn't really like the way the site felt, and while I made another one I really just like the way this one turned out. Plus with Tumblr you're essentially forced to rely on PayPal for transactions (and thus at constant risk for the ol "hey that counts as adult conten, account terminated" shit) whereas this site will let me sell direct off of it should I just start charging for the content.
As amateurish (which I've taken to referring to as "indie" now since I saw videogame developers get away with it) as my output is, a lot of real time and work goes into making it, so I want a somewhat presentable layout for everything. Even if at the end of the day it's just a bloated, costly personal blog, it's how I picture it in my head, you know?
No.11883
>>11881
Maybe you should think about getting someone that's tech savvy from the community to help you? I don't know if Illionore even comes here, but I think he knows a bit about programming given his older games from the Theater. Failing that, TickleWizard posts on here occassionally and he seems to talk about programming and such in quite a few places.
No.11885
>>11883
What specifically looks like it needs work from a technical aspect so far?
No.11891
The design's tight. I can easily find everything I'm looking for, and I don't feel like I'm entering a skeet-site like TA.
You have me sold hoss, good job.
No.11892
>>11891
Before I started I contacted the website to see if "fetish but not porn" material was ok, and they say I'm juuuuuust at the borderline but so long as I keep it SFW it's good to go, so I'm presenting it more as "kink themed adventures" as opposed to "fetish porn", even if the end result is the exact same content.
Tamyra's going to do more custom art for it, which I think will help it stand out even more.
No.11893
>>11892
Personally I think Tamyra's linework is kinda weak.
No.11894
>>11893
I'm infatuated with it. It has a distinct look.
No.11895
>>11894
I think it's good for a comic book and not for a mural, if you know what I mean.
No.11896
>>11895
I dunno man, the one I use for the cover image is the raddest hit to me.
No.11897
>>11896
Either way, I like the website's design.
No.11898
>>11897
I was happy with how everything worked out, the service makes it looks like you can just do simplistic pictures and blogging shit but if you play around with it it'll let you do everything you want with it.
It's still on a "trial" period now, I wanted to make sure it did everything I needed it to before I committed to anything. When I start paying it'll have a regular url.
No.11899
I went ahead and went live
No.11953
No.11978
Not 2 days old and already e-begging? Goddamn right! I'm out of space but have more videos, help me bring them to you by putting some coin in the bucket.
http://www.piedmontlaughriot.com/news
No.11992
>>11978
Damn, James. Are you gonna have to whore yourself out to us tickle-fiends?
No.11996
>>11992
Maaaaaaaaybe.
But not really, I do have an actual job and could pay for everything on my own, I just figured see who was willing to help first. Truth be told I'm all but certain this'll be a 100% financial loss to me, but I'm down for it.
No.12000
Actually I do need help coming up with worthwhile Patreon perks. Help me out.
No.12004
played the game up for download, disappointed that you have to slog through /f to get to any /m
No.12005
>>12004
Yep. But the game only existed because of people who backed to pay for art. All but one who wanted women characters. The plan was to make it a fairly even 50-50 split, but Offbeatr took a 30% cut from the end collections (roughly $140), which cut roughly 3 characters out of the final product, which were going to be guys.
If and when I got that route again, I'll just do PayPal donations which won't take anything, but I wanted a "legit" thing to do it the first time since it was my first shot at it and I wanted people to have some faith in giving money to some unknown guy with some idea for a videogame.
No.12037
>>12004
>slog through /f
Dear me, I didn't know they let the peasantry own computers.
Shoo now, I'm sure you have a field to plow.
No.12086
No.12088
>>12086
twelve but i asked mom if i could come on here
No.12201
To potentially save tons of bandwidth/cash consider hosting the videos on xtube and linking them on you squarespace site with clickable thumbnails and maybe short descriptions. If squarespace has a problem with you linking to xtube (and your contract is by the month), wix is roughly the same service but claims to not care if you post porn (see below).
Also, why no art gallery section?
https://www.wix.com/support/html5/article/adult-sites-on-wix
https://www.wix.com/support/html5/ugc/0dde172d-2ef1-4556-b562-afcc806cfc34/02f40ce3-7460-4663-87de-7f9b746551f5
No.12203
>>12201
Nah they'll be back online at the end of the month anyway, and with only occasional updates I doubt I'll pass the allowed bandwidth again. Also considering I'm not going to post anything related to it on TMF anymore.
No.12469
>>12203
Why not put advertisements on, get something to help the site run?
No.12480
>>12469
I'm not sure who to seek, I don't know what 'legit' ads would want to run on what's obviously a kink site, but I don't wanna put porn and fleshlight banners up and just give up and call it a porno blog. Even though it really just IS wank fodder, I like the fairly clean vibe it has going on atm.
No.12515
>>12480
Last time I used Google AdSense, all I need to do was inject some JavaScript into the site and it auto-displayed ads. I don't know if AdSense plays targeted ads (I'd wager it does) but assuming you don't have major keywords like "porn" in the website tags or link to any major Adult websites, most, if not all of the ads should just be "normal" web adverts.
No.12526
Popped one on the side and some footer banners, maybe that'll generate enough where I can get pro quality video hosting. I have no illusions of this ever generating any real profit but being self-sustaining would be great.
Thanks to everyone who donated and that one guy on my Patreon, by the way. I'm going to think of something to make that whole thing worthwhile instead of just fetish hipster welfare.
No.12551
>>12526
Can you not just put the vids on Pornhub or something and embed them on the site?
No.12552
>>12526
Looks like the ads don't show for me partner. I even disabled my adblock
No.12555
>>12552
Yeah a few people are telling me that. I don't know what the deal is, then.
>>12551
I guess technically, but I kind of want all the material self contained plus I think links to pornhub might be treading the "it can be kinky but not outright porn" line SquareSpace warned about.
When everything comes back online next week I'm just not posting news or anything on TMF anymore, those cunts drained the bandwidth and then the second I asked if they wanted to chip in a dollar or two to keep everything running not a damn one of them made a peep. I understand they're not obligated to on what's promoted as a "free to view" site, but it would have been cool of them. So if they didn't make a point to bookmark the site and check back for updates I'm not telling them about it.
No.12579
So me and the Captive Pleasures website have a referral program thing going on, mention PLR when placing an order and the site gets a cut, help pay some hosting.
http://www.piedmontlaughriot.com/news/2016/1/26/piedmont-laugh-riot-starts-referral-program-with-new-captive-pleasures
No.12581
>powered by squarespace
Ahahahahaha
No.12586
>>12555
Dude just take it off Squarespace and host it on a VPS or something, you can find ones that are dirt fucking cheap(~$20) a month. Or even cheaper, use namecheap or godaddy hosting but I don't have any experience with those, and host the videos externally and embed them like the other dude said.
Honestly you're just creating problems for yourself with this crap.
No.12591
>>12586
This one is $12 a month, the videos ARE hosted externally, and I don't know where your exasperated advice is coming from. The "problems" come from the fact it turns out you're not really allowed to host a shitload of pseudo-porn for free 100% of the time. And that for some reason the girls aren't really thrilled with the idea with being plastered on Pornhub, who'd have thought, right?
The only real problem is just expanding at a quick pace for what is essentially a personal blog. Doable yeah, but if I can pick up some change and push the process along you know damn well I'm going to. There's no real urgency in it failing, I just want to start doing more with it now, and that can be done wth sponsors and ads, both of which would be very helpful on any service I used.
No.12616
Wait, tickle porn part 2 is done?
No.12617
>>12616
The game? Had been for a long time.