Ask HN: Should I build a Chinese clone of About.me | Flavors.me?
I purchased a domain name 12 years ago that you could say is as good or even better than about.me but in Chinese (pinyin) and its the .com . My original plan was to do something like about.me but I "never got round to it".
My question is, now, having seen market successes such as about.me and flavors.me prove there is demand, and given the Chinese web is a large enough size, would you go ahead and basically create it now purely to take advantage of the business opportunity as opposed to actually being passionate about it?
edit: Would rather not disclose the domain - trying to keep the discussion on the concept rather than specifics.
Comments
I'd say if you're not passionate about it don't do it. That said you could try to think of a way you could use the domain name to build an application you're passionate about and then do that.
thats my two cents :)
Sure, just try it out, maybe it doesn't work but you'll never know until you make it real, go for it!