[tlb]

Buying small websites is a hard business, because you have to maintain them. If one engineer can maintain 10 sites, it costs $2k/mo to maintain each, so the gross profit has to be well above that to make a business out of it. Maintaining 10 sites, each written independently with their own tooling choices, requires an engineer with a very large cranium.

[thomaslangston]

It can be done if you pair it with an agency model. You keep multiple devs on hand who treat the sites as internal clients. Over time if you keep making acquisitions, you have less and less need to keep the external client pipeline full.

Example - http://www.simplefocus.com/