Looking for better deal aggregators / outgrowing Kumo

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by a searcher from INSEAD
in San Francisco, CA, USA

1yr ago

Looking for better deal aggregators / outgrowing Kumo

One of the first aggregator websites I found while kicking off my search was Kumo. In the beginning it felt great because there were so many listings and no weird fee structures / success fees. However, after paying for the premium subscription for about 3 months it feels like 95% of the deals are just reformatted bizben listings (at least in CA). I really do love their interface but I just don't see the breadth I'm looking for at $100/month.

Anyone else have a similar experience and found a comprehensive solution or is everyone just browsing through a bunch of deal websites daily?

Part of me feels like it might be worth it to write a quick Python script to automatically put everything from the ~15 websites I'm tracking into an Excel file.

And in case this sounds more like a rant than something useful, here are all the websites I'm currently using using to track deals:

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reply by a searcher 1yr ago
in New York, NY, USA

Wow. Thanks for sharing this list. What has worked very for me is building an email marketing campaign for my ideal buyer. Works very well with going through the broker sites.

reply by a searcher 8mos ago
from University of California, Berkeley in Los Angeles, CA, USA

After testing 10+ broker aggregator tools over the last year, I published some thoughts on which help you save time (tldr; DealMatch has been the most fruitful for me by far) redacted