{"about":{"summary":"A directory of side businesses that real people say they run, each summarized in our words and linked to its public source.","notes":["Sources are public, first-person accounts: interviews, podcasts and community threads.","Cost, time and the other tags are machine estimates, each with a confidence score.","Income figures are the owner's own claim. We don't verify them."],"how_to_cite":"Link the idea page and its source. Call income figures the owner's unverified claim, and cost and time estimates."},"idea":{"slug":"captcha-recognition-service-paid-per-solve-496a46","title":"Captcha recognition service paid per solve","summary":"Built a machine learning system that solves captchas, paid per captcha, so income continues after the build.","url":"https://allsidehustleideas.com/ideas/captcha-recognition-service-paid-per-solve-496a46","markdown_url":"https://allsidehustleideas.com/ideas/captcha-recognition-service-paid-per-solve-496a46.md","tags":{"category":{"value":"software","label":"Software and apps","confidence":0.56},"earns_from":{"value":"fees","label":"Service fees","confidence":0.88},"startup_cost_estimate":{"value":"100-1k","label":"$100 to $1k","confidence":0.4},"time_estimate":{"value":"hands-off","label":"Hands-off","confidence":0.83},"where":{"value":"online","label":"Online","confidence":0.99},"needs_coding":{"value":true,"confidence":0.99}},"owner_reported":null,"source":{"publication":"Hacker News","title":"Ask HN: Are you working on any side projects that make \"small/passive\" income?","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2358477","person":"wladimir","host":null,"date":"2011-03-23"},"owner_site":null}}