{"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-sites-earning-from-sold-text-links-af1c4a","title":"Niche sites earning from sold text links","summary":"Runs two small sites that earn mostly by selling text links through a link marketplace, plus some AdSense.","url":"https://allsidehustleideas.com/ideas/niche-sites-earning-from-sold-text-links-af1c4a","markdown_url":"https://allsidehustleideas.com/ideas/niche-sites-earning-from-sold-text-links-af1c4a.md","tags":{"category":{"value":"content","label":"Content and media","confidence":0.84},"earns_from":{"value":"ads","label":"Ads","confidence":0.52},"startup_cost_estimate":{"value":"100-1k","label":"$100 to $1k","confidence":0.57},"time_estimate":{"value":"hands-off","label":"Hands-off","confidence":0.81},"where":{"value":"online","label":"Online","confidence":0.99},"needs_coding":{"value":false,"confidence":0.87}},"owner_reported":null,"source":{"publication":"Hacker News","title":"Ask HN: Are you working on any side projects that make \"small/passive\" income?","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2359340","person":"damoncali","host":null,"date":"2011-03-23"},"owner_site":null}}