{"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":"local-phone-repair-shop-d6ec73","title":"Local phone repair shop","summary":"A retail shop that fixes broken phones for walk-in customers, grown from one location to several. The owner later sold the business.","url":"https://allsidehustleideas.com/ideas/local-phone-repair-shop-d6ec73","markdown_url":"https://allsidehustleideas.com/ideas/local-phone-repair-shop-d6ec73.md","tags":{"category":{"value":"services","label":"Services and freelancing","confidence":0.97},"earns_from":{"value":"fees","label":"Service fees","confidence":0.89},"startup_cost_estimate":{"value":"over-10k","label":"Over $10k","confidence":0.63},"time_estimate":{"value":"full-time","label":"Near full-time","confidence":0.51},"where":{"value":"in-person","label":"In person","confidence":0.93},"needs_coding":{"value":false,"confidence":0.99}},"owner_reported":{"text":"Self-reported by Chris Koerner: grew to 4 locations and sold for $30,000.","verified":false},"source":{"publication":"Top Founders","title":"EP 462: $8.8M 2015 sales of iPhone repair parts with CEO Chris Koerner","url":"https://nathanlatkathetop.libsyn.com/ep-462-88m-2015-sales-of-iphone-repair-parts-with-ceo-chris-koerner","person":"Chris Koerner","host":"Nathan Latka","date":"2016-10-29"},"owner_site":null}}