{"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":"competitor-price-monitoring-software-business-d28ccb","title":"Competitor price monitoring software business","summary":"A competitor monitoring product that began as a side project and grew into a systemised business with a team, so the owner now acts more like an investor.","url":"https://allsidehustleideas.com/ideas/competitor-price-monitoring-software-business-d28ccb","markdown_url":"https://allsidehustleideas.com/ideas/competitor-price-monitoring-software-business-d28ccb.md","tags":{"category":{"value":"software","label":"Software and apps","confidence":0.94},"earns_from":{"value":"subscription","label":"Subscriptions","confidence":0.87},"startup_cost_estimate":{"value":"1k-10k","label":"$1k to $10k","confidence":0.57},"time_estimate":{"value":"hands-off","label":"Hands-off","confidence":0.72},"where":{"value":"online","label":"Online","confidence":0.98},"needs_coding":{"value":true,"confidence":0.98}},"owner_reported":null,"source":{"publication":"Hacker News","title":"Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2016?","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13151069","person":"inovica","host":null,"date":"2016-12-11"},"owner_site":null}}