Comment by dudeinjapan

4 years ago

should start small, like an open source Google, then work your way up to an open source Amazon.

Nobody ever wants to open source Pornhub. Wide consumer interest, no physical products to worry about, lots of advertising potential - and your not competing with Amazon, Wal-Mart, Google, Apple, or Target. Sounds like a better deal to me.

  • Constant hassle with payment processors deciding to ban smut once you get too big, though.

    • > Constant hassle with payment processors deciding to ban smut once you get too big, though.

      Not doing something because you might get too big is not sound reasoning.

      When you get too big, that's the time to worry about it.

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  • If someone got it to be popular enough, MindGeek would buy it and you'd be back at square one.

Many have already done open source Google and MS. We have those solutions already, and they are great though not yet pervasive. We need open source market place and logistics, and that is where they should stay focused.

Maybe practice creating an open source Microsoft before quitting your day job?