{"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":"mobile-laundry-pickup-service-490392","title":"Mobile laundry pickup service","summary":"A laundry service that picks up, washes, folds and returns customers' clothes. It started solo with a van and now runs on a large network of contractors.","url":"https://allsidehustleideas.com/ideas/mobile-laundry-pickup-service-490392","markdown_url":"https://allsidehustleideas.com/ideas/mobile-laundry-pickup-service-490392.md","tags":{"category":{"value":"services","label":"Services and freelancing","confidence":0.97},"earns_from":{"value":"fees","label":"Service fees","confidence":0.84},"startup_cost_estimate":{"value":"1k-10k","label":"$1k to $10k","confidence":0.41},"time_estimate":{"value":"part-time","label":"Part-time","confidence":0.44},"where":{"value":"in-person","label":"In person","confidence":0.55},"needs_coding":{"value":false,"confidence":0.91}},"owner_reported":{"text":"Self-reported by Susan Toft: a $12 million business","verified":false},"source":{"publication":"Side Hustle Nation","title":"Turning My Unfolded Laundry into a $12M Business (Susan Toft’s Story)","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMKkRzjnOEs","person":"Susan Toft","host":"Nick Loper","date":"2026-03-02"},"owner_site":"https://laundrylady.com/"}}