The title says it all....OnlySearch.co started as a random hackathon project back in September 2020. It was Covid, so everyone was locked inside and OnlyFans was blowing up. Creators were flocking to the platform, but there was one huge problem: nobody could get discovered. There was no search feed on the actual platform, no discovery page, nothing. Everyone I talked to said the same thing: finding new subscribers was brutal and they spent more time marketing themselves than making new content.
Fans felt it too. They wanted a better way to find creators they actually liked, but the platform made it impossible. They wanted to be able to search by specific traits like location or content niche. By the end of the hackathon weekend we had a rough but working search engine that could index OnlyFans profiles. We didn’t win the hackathon, but we kept going because it clearly solved a real problem.
A few weeks later, we dropped it on Product Hunt and it took off. Traffic spiked, creators started getting clicks, and before long OnlySearch became the top ranked OnlyFans search engine on Google, a spot it has held ever since. For years, it quietly ran without ads or monetization, and we nearly forgot about it. That is, until my other product, Sunroom was acquired. Now I'm turning my focus to OnlySearch and launching paid ads. In just a couple months we've already garnered a long waiting list of creator agencies eager to advertise on OS.
OnlySearch has always been about making discovery actually work for creators. It’s still growing, still independent, and still run by people who genuinely get it. Stay tuned for what’s next.
