This idea was inspired by this Savage Love column (most obvious content warning ever: it's a Savage Love column about porn - proceed accordingly) where the guy is looking for het femdom porn with werewolves and vampire themes targeting a female audience (with a laundry list of sex acts he doesn't want to see in said porn) and Dan Savage is all yeah, good luck buddy.
There's a business opportunity here! Customers send in requests for porn that meets their exacting specifications. The pornographers calculate how much this porn would cost to make and how much of a return on investment they can expect to get. Then they give the customer a price that constitutes part (but not all) of the cost of making the porn. The better the projected ROI, the less they charge the customer.
So if the customer agrees, they make the porn and give it to the customer. But THEN, they also sell the porn through their website, and split the profits with the customer by the same proportions that they initially invested. So while the porn is significantly more expensive to the customer to start with, they can make money back and maybe even turn a profit. So if woman-centric het femdom vampire porn has a larger audience than the marketing department expected, the dude who wrote into Savage Love could get rich. If not, he can still get his niche porn for the right price even if he's the only person in the world who wants it.
Other possibilities that would make it more interesting but I'm not sure if they'd wreck the business model:
1. If the customer can't afford to have their porn made, the pornographers can still keep the idea. If they use it sometime, the customer who submitted the idea gets the porn for free but doesn't get a cut of the profits.
2. If the pornographers think an idea is commercially viable so they don't charge the customer very much, the customer can choose to invest a greater amount and thus get a greater share of the profits.
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I once heard of a site from brazil that offered a similar service which bore the infamous swap.avi video (google it if you dare, i will never explain that video to anyone ever again). Which is why I say with that type of business model you would get some very strange (and very taboo) requests. So there should be a set limit to what you can request (ie. no digestive fluid involvment, no mutilation, no beastiality etc.). But otherwise I would think it would be quite a lucrative business model. I would imagine that you would need a certain amount of employees on hand to fill all those requests. Tell me when you get it started, I have a few ideas running through my head ;)
Meh, I just pondered the same fucking idea this one night.. Then today I was telling this idea to my friend and thought that I should google first if this is allready invented. Well I guess it's not done yet. This could be seriously a BIG BUSINESS...
I do this but because it is a new idea too many people are not willing to try it in fright of their money being taken. My business is very very slow.
We are a few years late since you published your post, but last year we launched a site that does what you suggested. Allows people to get custom porn made from amateur models. What's a little different from our approach than what you suggested is that we currently only allow models to sell on the site. This means no studios currently are part of the eco-system. Eventually we may allow studios to sell.
How it works is relatively simple. The models post jobs describing types of content they can make. Buyers contact them and work with them to get it made. We also have a custom porn request section where prospective buyers can post what they are looking for and then sellers can seek them out.
To address @mariela_sa1's comment about how people might fear of getting ripped off. We also use a simple escrow system where when someone purchases we hold the money and wait until the seller has transferred the product before transferring the money to the seller.
If it sounds interesting you can check out Extra Lunch Money (fyi, this site is definitely NOT SFW, be advised)
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