Co-founders wanted | EU adult platform
Hey all,
Two of us have been building and we're now looking for 1-2 co-founders to take it further with us. We are already building for six months besides our full-time jobs.
Upfront and honest, because it saves everyone time: it's an adult platform. Legal, above-board, built to comply with EU law - not a grey-area thing. If that's a dealbreaker for you, no hard feelings, better to know now.
The idea
A verified-only social platform for adults to connect with like-minded people. Community boards, chat, profiles, a feed. Creators can also sell content on a per-post basis (no subscriptions - a deliberate choice). Users can buy platform subscriptions for premium features. EU/UK focus, with Germany as a key market. We care about it being a genuinely trustworthy, non-sleazy place, which is most of the reason the harder parts below matter so much.
The team right now
- My colleague - senior fullstack dev, located in southern German
- Me - business side + senior frontend, located in Austria
Neither of us has founded a company before. We were probably a bit naive going in, but we believe in the vision and there's real work behind it already.
We were three, actually. One person stepped away - not over anything between us, but because he decided the space itself is just too tough. Complying with everything a social platform has to, and an adult one in particular, is a steep hill. It's a fair concern and we're not pretending otherwise. We're going in with our eyes open, which is exactly why the risk/legal role below matters as much as it does.
Where we are
- Solid working prototype: feed, discussion boards, chat, profiles, notifications, real-time via websockets
- Pre-incorporation - no company founded yet
- No payment provider integrated yet
The hard parts - why we want help
- Payments: finding and integrating a provider that will actually work with adult content
- Legal & compliance: EU obligations around CSAM/NCII, age verification, content moderation, etc.
- Production-readiness: getting from strong prototype to something we can safely launch
Who we're looking for (one or more of these):
- Senior software architect - helps shape and build the platform with us. Not a CTO title; decisions made collectively.
- Finance / CFO - ideally someone who has founded and scaled a company before.
- Risk / audit / legal - someone willing to own the compliance side of a genuinely tricky domain.
It's an ambitious project in a difficult field with real regulatory weight - but a large market if we get it right.
The practical stuff
- Equity: equal, co-founder-level split. It vests over time with the usual cliff, so it's earned rather than handed over on day one.
- Commitment: it's a side project for now, so part-time to start. The plan is for it to become full-time work for all of us as it grows.
- Location: EU-based and remote. This is a hard requirement.
- Timeline: targeting launch in spring/summer 2027.
- Funding: bootstrapped for now. We plan to raise once the platform is hardened on the legal side and payments are in place.
If this sounds like your thing, drop a comment or DM me. Happy to walk through the prototype and where we're headed.
As show offs are only allowed on Fridays I'm not disclosing the name or website url of our already publicly reachable marketing website.