Tritone,

Whilst I am but sorely tempted to jump up and down on your hot buttons, I will not. This is in fact the kind of discussion I have pondered quite a bit in the past.

You're proposing two basic questions here.

1) What is the basic cost to set up a decent porn website that will succeed as a business.

2) Is the concept that I am floating viable?

The basic costs to do this sort of site have dropped dramatically in the last two years. Whores that used to go for $1200 a scene now go for $700. Amateurs can be had for less. Cast and crew are also working for a bit less than they used to as well, and the digital revolution makes filming much cheaper than it used to be.

Conversely, the market is actually beyond saturation point, and free sites like Redtube are not helping at all. Just a simple search on Redtube for POV inter-racial brought up 17 free videos, some of which actually looked pretty good.

So is the cost reasonable now? Maybe. You wanted to rent a house and live in an apartment offsite. I'm nixing that. A house in porn valley will not be cheap and a startup business needs to run as efficiently as possible. You need to live in that house dude. Figure house rental to be at least $1200 dollars a month.

Then you need to shoot a ton of material before launch. Figure at least 12 different girls for launch with at least 6 more in the can and ready to go. If we figure on the bargain price of $700 per girl, you're looking at at least $12600 before you even open your site for business. And I'm being generous in that assessment, because whores flake out so figure on at least two of your shoots being busts.

I'm not even going to guess what support staff you would need, not factoring in the cost of stunt cocks, support staff, editors, technical staff, marketing costs, licensing, testing, lawyers fees, insurance, website maintenance and technical support, utilities and property taxes.

I am going to assign a very rough number of at least $15000 to all of the above. I am most likely grossly underestimating this number.

So, in my very best internet expert opinion, it would take approximately $28,800.00 to get started as a porn innovator. As I also stated, that number could also be a lot closer to $40 grand. That's 29 to 40 thousand dollars before you even open your doors for business.

Now for the second question. Is your concept viable?

I'm going to say no.

Hit Google, type in interracial POV. See what you get. I got 699 thousand results. A fuckton of that stuff is free too. How do you compete with that?

You don't. That doesn't mean you can't do your vision, which is to have very fine whores servicing you while you try not to drop your videocamera, but on the whole, I don't feel your vision stands on it's own. You need a hook, a grabber, something to get the people to your site and then keep them there after they whip out the credit card. That means a unique high quality product that they cannot get for free or easily pirate and that they cannot get anywhere else. That means innovative marketing plans that make your customers really happy and possibly even give referrals. It means lots of brain wracking work. It also means a lot of throwing stuff at the wall to see what sticks. It also means you being appalled occasionally by what is driving your site traffic, and then getting past that and starting to follow up on it to find out how you capture more lightning in a bottle.

In short dude, I think it's a tough row to hoe. You need a fat outlay of cash and a unique concept that about a thousand people a month are willing to pay about $14.95 for. It would be a fuckton of work too.

Then again, if it works out, you could be in the unique position of having to pencil in blowjob /w swallow for Tuesday morning followed by A2M for the afternoon. And get paid for it.

So yeah, if you have the cash to risk, (And I cannot stress the word risk enough here...) and can expand on your concept enough, by all means it could be successful. But I don't think I'd take that jump without a sound marketing strategy, some serious market research and a rock solid business plan and a good review of initial concept.

That's my take dude. I have 'zero' experience in the actual industry as a website operator as well so *please* take everything I say with a grain of salt. All I've got is my opinion and some educated guesses, and I hope they offer a little bit of what you were looking for.