{"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":"hire-ghostwriters-and-publish-books-on-amazon-598439","title":"Hire ghostwriters and publish books on Amazon","summary":"Pays writers to produce books, then lists and markets them on Amazon, releasing roughly one title a month.","url":"https://allsidehustleideas.com/ideas/hire-ghostwriters-and-publish-books-on-amazon-598439","markdown_url":"https://allsidehustleideas.com/ideas/hire-ghostwriters-and-publish-books-on-amazon-598439.md","tags":{"category":{"value":"physical-products","label":"Physical products","confidence":0.59},"earns_from":{"value":"one-time","label":"One-time sales","confidence":0.85},"startup_cost_estimate":{"value":"1k-10k","label":"$1k to $10k","confidence":0.55},"time_estimate":{"value":"part-time","label":"Part-time","confidence":0.46},"where":{"value":"online","label":"Online","confidence":0.98},"needs_coding":{"value":false,"confidence":0.98}},"owner_reported":null,"source":{"publication":"Hacker News","title":"Ask HN: What is your side hustle? How much money does it make you?","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15041315","person":"faet","host":null,"date":"2017-08-17"},"owner_site":null}}