{"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":"chart-image-and-qr-code-api-416400","title":"Chart image and QR code API","summary":"An open source API that generates embeddable chart images and QR codes. Monetized as a hosted service.","url":"https://allsidehustleideas.com/ideas/chart-image-and-qr-code-api-416400","markdown_url":"https://allsidehustleideas.com/ideas/chart-image-and-qr-code-api-416400.md","tags":{"category":{"value":"software","label":"Software and apps","confidence":0.94},"earns_from":{"value":"subscription","label":"Subscriptions","confidence":0.75},"startup_cost_estimate":{"value":"1k-10k","label":"$1k to $10k","confidence":0.42},"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: What is your passive income 2019?","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21390199","person":"typpo","host":null,"date":"2019-10-29"},"owner_site":"https://quickchart.io/"}}