Man, 22, Sells Company For $66 Million He Started At Kitchen Table

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In the year 2020, a man created a website that competed with OnlyFans in his kitchen.

He sold the site for an eight-figure sum, and now he is rich.

Following the success of OnlyFans, a website that had grown in popularity that year, multi-millionaire Harry Gestetner founded Fanfix.

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Fanfix was not going to have nudity, despite the fact that both websites were subscription-based platforms and required frequent payment to view content.

Although it might not reach the same level of popularity as OnlyFans, Gestetner identified a market opportunity for a website like it, but without explicit content associations.

People have gotten money from posting videos of themselves doing household chores, brushing their teeth, and other odd but non-explicit activities like walking on pieces of bread.

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The individual reasoned that having a platform that doesn't have the raunchy reputation of OnlyFans would be helpful if there are going to be people who will subscribe to a person doing something.

By selling his website to SuperOrdinary last year, Gestetner became a billionaire. He told Insider that he had identified a "massive gap" in the industry.

After Gestetner's cousin made a TikTok that went viral and he asked why they couldn't generate money from the millions of views, he and co-founder Simon Pompan came up with the idea.

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Together, they secured $1.3 million for Fanfix, which they then launched with the help of Vine sensation Cameron Dallas, who first raised the site's profile.

He told Insider that because Fanfix and OnlyFans were targeting different audiences with different needs, he didn't actually perceive them as rivals to one another.

Additionally, according to Gestetner, the 'creative economy,' which is supported by websites like his and OnlyFans, 'shouldn't have existed in the first place.'

He believed that the social media giants made a grave mistake by failing to monetize content.

As of right now, it has over 3,000 content providers and about 10 million registered users. In order to earn money from the service, individuals must first demonstrate that they have at least 10,000 social network followers.

The same percentage that OnlyFans charges, Fanfix also retains a 20% fee from sales made on their website.

TechCrunch estimates that the annual salary of the typical Fanfix content creator is around $70,000.

Although it isn't as high as some of the biggest stars on OnlyFans can go, the Fanfix founders believe that because influencers have a more positive 'brand association' than explicit OnlyFans users, they may be given more options.

The absence of sexual content is one of Fanfix's key selling points, therefore there was no sex, no genitals, and no bare buttocks. Insider discovered some possibly NSFW material on the website, which Gestetner compared to "the most lewd stuff on TikTok or Instagram."