This column has explored a lot about cam girls — most recently, for instance, I learned that some of them are making around a million bucks a year.
It was the hit of the show, and within months it had hundreds of thousands of users and piles of venture capital.
Two years later, a location-based social app called Foursquare launched at SXSW and found its own overnight success.
Each spring since, the tech world’s eyes have turned to Austin in hopes of glimpsing the next big app or social media platform.
He goes by the name Mike Hard, and he’s a performer on camming site Streamate.
He agreed to chat with me about what it’s like to be a cam boy.