Founded in 2002 by web veteran Brent Daugherty, Streamitlive has had its endless run of problems. “We went through so many solutions that we lost hundreds of performers and studios over time.”

A large part of problem was inflexibility of software available on market. “A lot of software out there has some good things and some bad things. I don’t want to bash on anyone else’s software so I will leave it at that.” Daugherty, 36 and an experienced net entrepreneur, said.

“A lot of live webcam software on market these days started out for site that now sells it and is tailored to what site owner wanted and doesn’t take recommendations from users. We’ve had over 400 performers in last year and half and a lot have come and gone due to software issues. We have changed software now at least 5 times.”

Daugherty points out that problems weren’t entirely due to software. Like any human-resources dependent industry, live video chat sites need reliable chat hostesses. “They sign up and never work. This is problem I had past seven months. I hired a lot of girls I found 99% to be pretty lazy. Work fifteen minutes a week, then whining that they can’t make money.”

Daugherty was able to weather Streamitlive’s stormy course thanks to companies he’s established over years. “I started out in 1997 as an adult webmaster tired of buying content, so I decided to launch my own content site.”

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