{"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":"php-library-sold-to-developers-84f07b","title":"PHP library sold to developers","summary":"Wrote a PHP library and sells licenses to developers, getting a few sales a year.","url":"https://allsidehustleideas.com/ideas/php-library-sold-to-developers-84f07b","markdown_url":"https://allsidehustleideas.com/ideas/php-library-sold-to-developers-84f07b.md","tags":{"category":{"value":"digital-products","label":"Digital products","confidence":0.72},"earns_from":{"value":"one-time","label":"One-time sales","confidence":0.9},"startup_cost_estimate":{"value":"under-100","label":"Under $100","confidence":0.55},"time_estimate":{"value":"hands-off","label":"Hands-off","confidence":0.93},"where":{"value":"online","label":"Online","confidence":0.98},"needs_coding":{"value":true,"confidence":0.97}},"owner_reported":null,"source":{"publication":"Hacker News","title":"Your best passive income? (2014)","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7094661","person":"qzervaas","host":null,"date":"2014-01-21"},"owner_site":"http://zervaas.biz/escapianet/"}}