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Ask HN: Dev experience buying an existing website?

2 pointsby wbcover 2 years ago
Anyone have experience buying an existing site from something like flippa and building it out from the developer side?<p>I heard most of these are scams, but was wondering if there&#x27;s good methods for finding a site worth spending dev time.<p>Mental model (knowing very little) about the process is like house flippers that take existing run-down houses, renovating and re-selling for a markup.<p>Except I&#x27;m fine w&#x2F; just building the site for long term.

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al2o3crover 2 years ago
To extend the house-flipping analogy, your question is like a carpenter asking if anyone has experience buying run-down houses and doing a lot of woodworking in them. That&#x27;s not likely to lead to much financial success house-flipping...<p>In both cases, the work you _want_ to do (dev work &#x2F; carpentry) is necessary but not the part that makes you the money: MARKETING