{"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":"hosted-instance-of-open-source-software-for-friends-7d37bd","title":"Hosted instance of open source software for friends","summary":"Lets a couple of people use a personal instance of an open source program they run, so they do not have to host it themselves, in exchange for a small monthly fee.","url":"https://allsidehustleideas.com/ideas/hosted-instance-of-open-source-software-for-friends-7d37bd","markdown_url":"https://allsidehustleideas.com/ideas/hosted-instance-of-open-source-software-for-friends-7d37bd.md","tags":{"category":{"value":"software","label":"Software and apps","confidence":0.73},"earns_from":{"value":"subscription","label":"Subscriptions","confidence":0.87},"startup_cost_estimate":{"value":"100-1k","label":"$100 to $1k","confidence":0.45},"time_estimate":{"value":"hands-off","label":"Hands-off","confidence":0.71},"where":{"value":"online","label":"Online","confidence":0.98},"needs_coding":{"value":true,"confidence":0.53}},"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=13150253","person":"frou_dh","host":null,"date":"2016-12-11"},"owner_site":null}}