[hahla]

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.

I wouldn'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.

[MrGilbert]

I would really like to read more of this story. E.g. what did you do differently, did the original owner ever get in touch with you after it grew, stuff like that. Only if you can, ofc!