{"id":14598,"date":"2019-03-29T17:21:46","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T17:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/snap-ceos-sister-caroline-spiegel-starts-a-no-visuals-porn-site.html"},"modified":"2019-03-29T17:21:46","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T17:21:46","slug":"snap-ceos-sister-caroline-spiegel-starts-a-no-visuals-porn-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/snap-ceos-sister-caroline-spiegel-starts-a-no-visuals-porn-site.html","title":{"rendered":"Snap CEO\u2019s sister Caroline Spiegel starts a no-visuals porn site"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you took<\/span> the photos and videos out of pornography, could it appeal to a new audience? Caroline Spiegel\u2019s first startup Quinn aims to bring some imagination\u00a0to adult entertainment. Her older brother, Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel, spent years trying to convince people his app wasn\u2019t just for sexy texting. Now Caroline is building a website dedicated to sexy text and audio. The 22-year-old college senior tells TechCrunch that on April 13th she\u2019ll launch Quinn<\/a>, which she describes as \u201ca much less gross, more fun Pornhub for women.\u201d<\/p>\n

TechCrunch checked out Quinn\u2019s private beta site<\/a>, which is pretty bare bones right now. Caroline tells us she\u2019s already raised less than a million dollars for the project. But given her brother\u2019s success spotting the next generation\u2019s behavior patterns and turning them into beloved products, Caroline might find investors are eager to throw cash at Quinn. That\u2019s especially true given she\u2019s taking a contrarian approach. There will be no imagery on Quinn.<\/p>\n

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Caroline explains that \u201cThere\u2019s no visual content on the site \u2014 just audio and written stories. And the whole thing is open source, so people can submit content and fantasies, etc. Everything is vetted by us before it goes on the site.\u201d The computer science major is building Quinn with a three-woman team of her best friends she met while at Stanford, including Greta Meyer, though they plan to relocate to LA after graduation.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis dream girl was named \u2018Quinn\u2019 \u201c<\/h2>\n

The idea for Quinn sprung from a deeply personal need. \u201cI came up with it because I had to leave Stanford my junior year because I was struggling with anorexia and sexual dysfunction that came along with that,\u201d Caroline tells me. \u201cI started to do a lot of research into sexual dysfunction cures. There are about 30 FDA-approved drugs for sexual dysfunction for men but zero for women, and that\u2019s a big bummer.\u201d<\/p>\n

She believes there\u2019s still a stigma around women pleasuring themselves, leading to a lack of products offering assistance. Sure, there are plenty of porn sites, but few are explicitly designed for women, and fewer stray outside of visual content. Caroline says photos and videos can create body image pressure, but with text and audio, anyone can imagine themselves in a scene. \u201cMost visual media perpetuates the male gaze \u2026 all mainstream porn tells one story \u2026 You don\u2019t have to fit one idea of what a woman should look like.\u201d<\/p>\n

That concept fits with the startup\u2019s name \u201cQuinn,\u201d which Caroline says one of her best guy friends thought up. \u201cHe said this girl he met \u2014 his dream girl \u2014 was named \u2018Quinn.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n

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Caroline took to Reddit and Tumblr to find Quinn\u2019s first creators. Reddit stuck to text and links for much of its history, fostering the kinky literature and audio communities. And when Tumblr banned porn in December, it left a legion of adult content makers looking for a new home. \u201cOur audio ranges from guided masturbation to overheard sex, and there\u2019s also narrated stories. It\u2019s literally everything. Different strokes for different for folks, know what I mean?\u201d Caroline says with a cheeky laugh.<\/p>\n

To establish its brand, Quinn is running social media influencer campaigns where \u201cThe basic idea is to make people feel like it\u2019s okay to experience pleasure. It\u2019s hard to make something like masturbation cool, so that\u2019s a little bit of a lofty goal. We\u2019re just trying to make it feel okay, and even more okay than it is for men.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for the business model, Caroline\u2019s research found younger women were embarrassed to pay for porn. Instead, Quinn plans to run ads, though there could be commerce opportunities too. And because the site doesn\u2019t bombard users with nude photos or hardcore videos, it might be able to attract sponsors that most porn sites can\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Evan is \u201cvery supportive\u201d<\/h2>\n

Until monetization spins up, Quinn has the sub-$1 million in funding that Caroline won\u2019t reveal the source of, though she confirms it\u2019s not from her brother. \u201cI wouldn\u2019t say that he\u2019s particularly involved other than he\u2019s one of the most important people in my life and I talk to him all the time. He gives me the best advice I can imagine,\u201d the younger sibling says. \u201cHe doesn\u2019t have any qualms, he\u2019s very supportive.\u201d<\/p>\n

Quinn will need all the morale it can get, as Caroline bluntly admits, \u201cWe have a lot of competitors.\u201d There\u2019s the traditional stuff like Pornhub, user-generated content sites like Make Love Not Porn and spontaneous communities like on Reddit. She calls $5 million-funded audio porn startup Dipsea<\/a> \u201can exciting competitor,\u201d though she notes that \u201cwe sway a little more erotic than they do, but we\u2019re so supportive of their mission.\u201d How friendly.<\/p>\n

Quinn\u2019s biggest rival will likely be outdated but institutionalized site Literotica, which SimilarWeb <\/a>ranks as the 60th most popular adult website, 631st most visited site overall, showing it gets 53 million hits per month. But the fact that Literotica looks like a web 1.0 forum yet has so much traffic signals a massive opportunity for Quinn. With rules prohibiting Quinn from launching native mobile apps, it will have to put all its effort into making its website stand out if it\u2019s going to survive.<\/p>\n

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But more than competition, Caroline fears that Quinn will have to convince women to give its style of porn a try. \u201cBasically, there\u2019s this idea that for men, masturbation is an innate drive and for women it\u2019s a \u2018could do without it, could do with it.\u2019 Quinn is going to have to make a market alongside a product and that terrifies me,\u201d Caroline says, her voice building with enthusiasm. \u201cBut that\u2019s what excites me the most about it, because what I\u2019m banking on is if you\u2019ve never had chocolate before, you don\u2019t know. But once you have it, you start craving it. A lot of women haven\u2019t experienced raw, visceral pleasure before, [but once we help them find it] we\u2019ll have momentum.\u201d<\/p>\n

Most importantly, Quinn wants all women to feel they have rightful access to whatever they fancy. \u201cIt\u2019s not about deserving to feel great. You don\u2019t have to do Pilates to use this. You don\u2019t have to always eat right. There\u2019s no deserving with our product. Our mission is for women to be more in touch with themselves and feel fucking great. It\u2019s all about pleasure and good vibes.\u201d<\/p>\n

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