I am the managing director of FreeOnes.com (NSFW) AMA

When I was thirteen years old I stumbled across your website and, awed and aroused, wrote down the URL on a piece of computer paper I then folded and put in my wallet to avoid the awkward conversation I might have with my parents had they found it saved in my bookmarks.

I carried that scrap of paper in my wallet for seven years.

haha thats great however a 13 year old should not be on our website!

Do you ever get bored of beautiful ladies after seeing 27k different ones?

The funny thing is that hardcore pornography is more boring to me these days than a beautifull erotic lingerie shoot.

Overall it does change your views and it can get boring yes

Is it bad that as soon as I saw your infograph boob picture I recognized its source?

Edit: thanks, thosefeels, for finding the name: Christie Cavalli

Hahaha I have that too, its a skill I created over the year.

You helped me through high school. Thank you.

You are welcome

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About once every 2 or 3 days allthough im pretty sure my co-workers do not want to read this about me ;)

Do you get to do any of them?

I take it you talk about the models, in that case no. We run a website and are more a technology company than a production company ;)

Can dickdongcock get to do any of them?

Only if dickdongcock has a valid test and is with an agency ;)

Isn't the name a sufficient proof? I'm disapointed.

good point, let me forward the application

I take 30% of his benefits as the intermediate.

noted!

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Haha no not really.

Wow. You've answered every question posted so far. How does it feel to have one of the most successful AMA's recently? Any tips for Morgan Freeman to try next time?

haha I was just telling Petra how ridiculously fast this is going!

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thats a good, and very tough, one. I can not say who my personal favorite is cause that will cause me trouble with the other models however I can say I am into the more natural girls ;)

How does it feel, knowing you are the boss of a company where, you get girls willingly emailing(basically) you naked pictures of themselves, and you get paid for it?

I mean how does it really feel? It must be quite alpha

It might be an idea to explain this process a bit. Models do send us content yes, however we promote their websites on FreeOnes with this content and we get a commision on the sales it generates. So it is not like they send us content and pay us right away.

But how does it feel? It gets pretty normal fast and feels just like a "regular" job.

How many DMCA complaints do you guys get a day?

None. Lets say about 1 or 2 a month max. We have a different working method compared to tube sites as we dont allow users to upload their content and we only use licensed content and content thats provided to us by various other sites and models.

Has it always been this way or has pressure made you change your business model?

Always been that way, we looked at the tube model when it came up and voted against it.

Have you ever felt curious and ended up watching shemale porn?

Funny story, when I started in this industry before workign at FreeOnes I sold shemale porn online. I dont feel arroused by it at all but it sold like hot cookies.

Have you taken any photos to personal collection and not publish on the site?

Of course, mostly pics taken on industry parties :)

What's the strangest thing you have seen at an industry party?

A girl snorting coke of a cock. Is that strange enough or just a regular saturday night? :D

Is it hard to keep finding new titles for your pics/vids?

Yes, our link reviewers are having a hard time to stay unique.

Are you married and if so, how does your wife feel about your business?

In a relationship for 14 years already. She is completely fine with it and loves to come along to industry parties :)

Do you do the marketing in-house, use an agency or does it take care of itself?

The site usually is first page on Google when I'm searching for an obscure models name +videos, so you're doing something right.

All in-house yes.

Did this AMA stem from a marketing meeting?

yes and no, it came out of our 15 year anni marketing meeting but was also something I wanted to do for a while already just to give people some insight in our world.

Do you make a decent living off this? are you living the rich life? or actually closer to average than people think?

We employ about 25 people full time in the office and have about 5 more working from home doing grunt work. If we would run this site with only 2 people we would be kings, now we do fairly ok I think.

However if we would be just with 2 people we would not be where we are right now.

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Where do I apply?

[email protected]

Is there a standard weight to be classified as a BBW?

I would have no idea, mostly the model portrays herself as a BBW so we work from there.

What are you going to have for lunch today?

I just had lunch and it was a sandwich with a salad. Thank you for asking haha

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Yes. For example I don't personally don't like the extremely rough sex you see out there but we do get a lot of it submitted to us so you know the demand is there. We have a policy to stick to the more vanilla porn and leave the extreme stuff to the others.

And of course every now and then we get confronted with illegal content which we of course hand over to the justice department.

How do you see your company in 5 years time?

Tough question since the internet is changing so fast however I do picture us still being relevant. We have a tough time fighting over visitors with tube sites since our model is so different but in the end I think people will appreciate what we do and we will come out stronger.

What do you like/dislike about your job the most and why?

I like the marketing aspect a lot. Coming up with new things and get all excited with the team about it is somethign I really enjoy. Specially when an idea turns out to work great.

I dislike working with the people who are nice in your face but in reality are fake just because I run one of the bigger porn sites.

Hey, so you can't answer who your favorite model is but how about this question. Which model had the biggest jump from least to most popular? What does the missfreeone get as a prize?

Thank you for maintaining the site for so long I have been watching for like 10 years now.

Biggest jump huh, good question which I would have to look up.

MissFreeones winner got $10k

Thank you for being a fan

Ok im taking off to home for some food. Back later to answer your questions!!! keep 'm coming!!!

Can you provide information on the hardware/software used in your systems?

Thats a tough question since we use a lot of it however I am in no way a tech guy. I do know we run the site from 2 data centers. 1 in Amsterdam and 1 in New York. So for example people from Europe go through the Amsterdam connection for a better and faster user experience.

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haha no. Mostly paysites I have passes to ;)

What's the most fucked up scene you ever watched?

Some Max Hardcore scene, I cant recall the name off, thats really not my thing.

What is your biggest WTF moment? (Job related)

The unlimitted amount of gifs my brother is sending me often having the most crazy filthy and scare shots in it.

I just visited your page and I noticed that the german translation for "Suggest a babe" is "Schlage ein Model" which translates to "Punch a model". I think you might want to improve that.

Also how popular is your north korean version of the page.

haha we will have that updated.

The NK version is not that popular as I think we are banned there.

How are bitcoin sales? +bitcointip roll verify

:)

slow so far

What types of models are most popular with your site's visitors?

Big boob milfs

Have you ever added a coworker to the database as a joke?

haha no but I will now ;)

First and foremost thank you for the site. I enjoy it very much. My question is what made your want to start the site considering there are others similar to it? Also how do you stay on top of the competition?

To make things clear, I am the managing director and joined the site only in 2005. The one starting it started it as a hobby which gained a lot of traffic in a very short time. Back then in 1998 there were really no others like it out there so being one of the first sure helped.

How do we stay on top of the competition? Work hard and try to focus on your own product. A lot of people always complain while we of course look at what others do however we keep focussing on what we know best. Try to offer more information of the models, more content, be better and do it in a different way. Try to be unique. besides that we always invested income back into the company instead of blowing it all. We are in this for the long run so we try to treat our visitors the best we can. No pop unders, no crazy java scripts, no annoying ads, etc.

What's the furthest a client has gone to get your attention?

define "client" please

One of the 27k models.

Furthest is probably the one who wanted to get off the website and went on and on phone stalking us :)

Who's the girl in the infographic?

Eve Angel http://www.freeones.com/html/e_links/Eve_Angel/ (NSFW)

Do you still run the website from Holland? Are your employees dutch? How and how fast did the site grow? I mean, how do you gather more customers/models.

Thanks for introducing me (and i'm sure many more) to this website.

We still run the site form our office in Holland yes. I would say 65% of our in-house people are dutch, the others are american, swedish and russian.

The site grew very fast around 2004/2005 when we doubled in traffic in basically 1 year. Since 2008 we are kind of steady at 2 million uniques daily. Getting more and new models is really not an issue since we get them provided by the numorous producers and companies who work directly with the models.

How do you get the pictures? Like do you buy them in bulk from a third party and then just post them on your site?

We buy content and we get content supplied to us from the various websites and models to promote them.

What is your favorite color?

blue! Ever seen our back ground color?

You say you consider your work technical; how do other people in the tech-business react and treat you? Do they accept your work as a tech-job like any other?

In my experience most do however sometimes when you meet a more conservative person its looked down upon.

Who do you have controlling your forums? I was searching my ex's videos and came across a post on the forums a few years back that had a few people listing personal information of hers. She got stalked by a lot of guys partially because of this. What is your stance on that?

This should be reported as soon as you see this. We will remove this is found true. We have moderators working for us however since the forum is soo big its hard to monitor it all.

What's your take on Measure B?

I think it is ridiculous. It will not help a thing and only drive production out of the state.

Do you use the agile development style or waterfall? How many QA people do you have?

Agile mostly allthough I prefer not to mess to much with the dev team/company.

Do you guys have a quiet room in the office for, well, you know.

^masturbating

yeah, we just call it the bathroom ;)

I love that the infographic casually mentions that you have a 2% chance of fapping to someone who's now dead.

This is awesome.

Yeah that surprised me too

You mentioned that you get illegal content submitted sometimes. How frequently? And what is the nature of the material? Do you know what comes of the parties who submitted the material, or do you just turn it over to the authorities and let them do their thing?

If it is once every few year it would be a lot. Mostly posted on our forum. We don't follow up on what the authorities do with it though.

Did you ever expect this website too run 15 years? did you have any plans if the website failed?

Well we (and specially the owner) always invested the money made straight back into the website so in some way yes we did expect to make it this far. Of course there are a lot of things that can change on the way and disturb your run. I personally had no plans for it the site failed. Guess we were so confidant people would like it that we didnt even think about failure.

Do the girls come in to do shoots and things, or is it done In another location and sent in?

It's all done by 3rd parties and not by us at all. Boring huh :)

Not very titilating then

I prefer it this way based on the experience I have with working with models ;)

Congratulations on 15 years!

Where do you see your company in another 15 years time?

15 years is way to far ahead, I did answer the 5 years ahead question already though ;)

You have a listing of the most popular models. I'm sure that's easy enough to gather thanks to an algo or two. Do you have a theory on why they're popular?

It's a combination on updates and the sites they shoot for. For example a site like Brazzers has a lot of pull so girls shooting with them are often popular. Of course the response in sales these sites get when they do certain updates can give them information on who is popular. This is just one theory of mine though. We can also make a model popular by promoting her a lot and shoving her into the peoples faces. And of course looks and the actual sex act help a lot

How did you get this job?

I was a freelancer and the owner hired me for some work. We became close friends and at one night out drinking he offered me a contract.

Yeah I have a question, are you hiring?

we might have some jobs yes, try [email protected]

How do you make money?

It's affiliate based, we send traffic to sites, when someone joins we get a commision.

Who's the hottest model out there, in your opinion?

Cant answer that as others will be mad at me ;)

What are the best and the worst things about working for FreeOnes and your job in particular?

The freedom I have is best, worst was me giving up my self employment and being able to work naked.

the hell is "free ones"

Things which are free. The owner was a student when he started and back then domains were expensive so he wanted a domain which could also be used in mainstream non adult.

Do you ever, well, ya know...

Sex them good?

Nope!

What happened to the embedded Twisty's daily vids?? I need to access some of them for... science.

lol go here: http://videos.freeones.com/taglist/twistys (NSFW)

What is your opinion on CISPA?

I know too little about this atm to give a proper answer.