Personally I would not go the way of Meepo, Ownboard or the like.
I would suggest starting as I did:
This one you can get fully built or as a kit you can put together over a weekend or two.
Then you’ve have a board with a VESC controller, and commodity battery so you’ll be well positioned to start making changes in the future if you want to, and if something breaks (something always does eventually) you will not be at the mercy of some people in China to send you some part.
I mean, yes all the parts are still available from China, but you are not beholden to Meepo to get you some dumb proprietary antispark as is happening to a friend of mine right now. Or to get some battery with very specific Ownboard dimensions or something like that.
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(Props to esk8.news and @Justaguy who gave me this advice in my similar thread:
It was the right advice for me I think.)