<story><title>Taking over a Dead IoT Company</title><url>https://blog.kchung.co/taking-over-a-dead-iot-company/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ColdHeat</author><text>Hello, author here. Happy to answer any questions!&lt;p&gt;My apologies for the downtime, I wasn&amp;#x27;t expecting much traffic today since I submitted the post to HN yesterday but I&amp;#x27;ve started scaling my server now!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hahla</author><text>Love this story. I did something similar with a website. Previous owner took it down, bought the domain from him and it organically grew to over 1m users per month with the same exact functionality.&lt;p&gt;I wouldn&amp;#x27;t discount your ability to bring this back to market. Would consult a lawyer to see what implications taking over the branding and APIs have. But clearly this has a big market.</text></comment>
<story><title>Taking over a Dead IoT Company</title><url>https://blog.kchung.co/taking-over-a-dead-iot-company/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ColdHeat</author><text>Hello, author here. Happy to answer any questions!&lt;p&gt;My apologies for the downtime, I wasn&amp;#x27;t expecting much traffic today since I submitted the post to HN yesterday but I&amp;#x27;ve started scaling my server now!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ivraatiems</author><text>I just want to say that I love that you did this. You have great skills and you used them for good. I&amp;#x27;ve never seen such a clearly white-hat hack :)&lt;p&gt;People&amp;#x27;s stuff will work again thanks to you and you should feel great about it!</text></comment>