Building an Adult Cam Site

[phatbiatch]

Originally posted by Bill
That webcamxp looks great. I'm definitely going to keep that in mind.

I have a bunch more questions myself, but I'm going to wait and see if camhunniez comes back with more more questions of her own.

And it would be great to hear from more camshow deliverers.

Phatbiatch, you said:
"I've been a chathost for over two years on several sites, iFriends, ImLive, Tricams/Homesex Network and I find from a chathost perspective having a setup where you validate the users credit cards for say $1 and then they are free to search the site and pay per minute is better in the long run."

Where does the software come from that lets you do that kind of per-minute charging?

What's involved in becoming a camgirl, and how much does it cost to get started?

Um ifriends and tricams both have proprietary software that you broadcast your cam through. I don't know much about what software is being run on their servers. Actually iFriends offers alot of options, media encoder, helix, ifcam, or easycam (new flash-based). LOL I'm sorry I don't have more knowledge on the technical side, but all of the sites are Java-based. ImLive incorporates Eyeball chat into their programming.

To become a chathost on any site costs $0, most take 50% of your earnings for allowing you to host cam there,plus ifriends keeps a running 10% reserve for any chargebacks that may occur within 6 months. They do start paying the money back to the hosts after 6 months. Out of pocket expense would be for a fairly inexpensive webcam. Logitech QuickCam comes to mind LOL. The plus side of working on a big site is there is built in traffic, payment processing, shopping cart system and basic privacy protection, and they handle all aspects of customer service.

Now, if you wanted to offer pay per minute cam shows on your own there is that webcamxp, coffeecup webcam 3.0 (i think), webcam32, and I personally use Inetcam.com. For a personal license it was $40, and it can generate an applet that you can paste right into your site BAM you have a personal cam site. Inetcam offers a commercial license solution as well, so they can fit everyone's needs. Problem is now how does the independent cam girl process payments? iBill, CCBill, and the big guys won't let you take cam payments so the girls are left with places like Ikobo, Money bookers, Storm Pay, Pay Direct (which does not permit adult) and various other offshore payment processors that popped up within the last 8 months. I don't use any of them, cause I basically use my personal cam setup for my phone/cam customers on another site.

Those who might be interested in running a Studio, ImLive offers a setup where you can be an ImLive Host Agent & have girls work for you under one account but is limited to 5 hosts. iFriends also allows cam studios to open up shop on there, there are quite a few eastern European studios operating on there.

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