Could We Buy The Coli?

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I’m thinking about it. Depends on the cost. The hardest thing for a business to acquire is customers and this one already has that. This place in some form has existed for 20+ years. There’s a reason for that. What does it really need? Better infrastructure, oversight, and implementing a few new features. It’s not far away from thriving.
This thread is for business minded folks. Obviously the brokies could never.

If you're interested we could create a group chat. Obviously there are a lot of details to hammer out but it could be done.
 

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Why would they sell?
Seems like they do zero maintenance or improvements and have a ton of ads. Don't know how much the hosting fees are but I'm assuming this is a nice passive income for whoever owns it.
mofo probably living in a mansion in Vietnam somewhere, living like a king collectly the monthly adshare and ain't checked the site in years :russ:
 

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Why would they sell?
Seems like they do zero maintenance or improvements and have a ton of ads. Don't know how much the hosting fees are but I'm assuming this is a nice passive income for whoever owns it.
mofo probably living in a mansion in Vietnam somewhere, living like a king collectly the monthly adshare and ain't checked the site in years :russ:
Easy. We all leave and stop participating. Sell it or we walk.
 

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I'm too lazy to do this, someone contact the registrar (namecheap), requesting the owner information.
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You can easily open up registration. Fix the DDOS attack.

Personally I would make a Podcast bases on each section. Do one show a week. The topics would be on the most popular topics from the pervious week or current events.

Have posters call in and talk their shyt. The most popular posters could host the shows. Have guest appearances.

You'd get money based on ad revenue from the site traffic. Then you could get money from streaming sites or a subscription based service.

Joe Budden Podcast generates makes $20 million in revenue a year.

Have multiple people put in and then a profit share payout on a set schedule.

It can be done.
Put pen to paper in a business plan and people with money will reach out.
 

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Real talk.

If we really love the place could we not come together and purchase it? If the owners no longer give a shyt than why not?

Okay. Then let grown folks discuss it. It's not your lane.

I’m thinking about it. Depends on the cost. The hardest thing for a business to acquire is customers and this one already has that. This place in some form has existed for 20+ years. There’s a reason for that. What does it really need? Better infrastructure, oversight, and implementing a few new features. It’s not far away from thriving.

Yep there are over 400 regular posters on here, that equals money in itself. The Coli must generate six figures a year? No?

I was literally thinking about this the other day too. Mad props to you for starting this post.

The product for sure has potential, but time has caught up with it and the technical limitations and lack of new features are bad.

Also having 0.0 social media presence in 2025 damn near 2026 whether we like it or not is not the play for platform growth.

My background is both Product leadership and company leadership (learned a lot in corporate, now applying this to startups).

I’m sure I’m not the only one with a background or skill set that could help this take off. With the right ownership and leadership who are aligned, this can be something.

1. Do we have any idea who actually currently owns thecoli.com the URL and any copyrights?
2. Who is serious about this?
 

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Real talk.

If we really love the place could we not come together and purchase it? If the owners no longer give a shyt than why not?
I 100% agree with this and am down to purchase this. The potential is there and even when you “forget money” - it is crucial that something important to our culture is in hands guiding and protecting it correctly.

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