I've discovered that there are no software tools to help with creating NSFW apps, especially as it relates to AI. So I created NSFW API and started building a community.

I've been an AI engineer for 3 years and this summer I thought "Why don't I make an AI porn website?".

What I found out is that 95% of the effort was relates to creating high quality datasets for doing things like classifying images, captioning, generating content, etc.

But there was nothing really out there for this. However there is no shortage of freely available porn online, so I started building a collection of tools to help consume and process all of that data. Over the months I would see constant side project posts of "I made this porn scroller" or "I made this xxx AI girlfriend app". It turns out, everyone's using AI for NSFW projects these days and I know they're having the same issues that I did.

So yesterday I turned my collection of tools into an open source project and shared it in a few relevant communities. There was a lot of interest! A few posts got down voted or removed, but for the most part there was a lot of support. I created r/NSFW_API which has gotten over 250 members, and a discord which is at 200+ members now.

While I haven't done anything to monetize, I may down the road look into some hosted site for people who can't/won't use the open source tools.

Some challenges with this project are that I can't really mix it with my professional life, it will stay a strictly anonymous side project. Funding potential is questionable, although PornHub had plenty of investors including J.P. Morgan reportedly.

I look forward to seeing where this goes, but the traction so far is promising. This is what the people want.