{"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":"niche-circuit-board-products-9daca4","title":"Niche circuit board products","summary":"Self-taught circuit board design, then sold a few products to a niche market with no marketing. Sales faded as cheap copies appeared.","url":"https://allsidehustleideas.com/ideas/niche-circuit-board-products-9daca4","markdown_url":"https://allsidehustleideas.com/ideas/niche-circuit-board-products-9daca4.md","tags":{"category":{"value":"physical-products","label":"Physical products","confidence":0.94},"earns_from":{"value":"one-time","label":"One-time sales","confidence":0.94},"startup_cost_estimate":{"value":"100-1k","label":"$100 to $1k","confidence":0.48},"time_estimate":{"value":"part-time","label":"Part-time","confidence":0.47},"where":{"value":"online","label":"Online","confidence":0.62},"needs_coding":{"value":false,"confidence":0.9}},"owner_reported":null,"source":{"publication":"Hacker News","title":"Ask HN: What is your money-making side project outside programming?","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19712391","person":"pmorici","host":null,"date":"2019-04-21"},"owner_site":null}}