{"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":"real-time-transit-tracking-app-for-commuters-e09c7d","title":"Real-time transit tracking app for commuters","summary":"Built a mobile app that tracks commuter rail trains in real time. Downloads spike whenever the transit system has service problems.","url":"https://allsidehustleideas.com/ideas/real-time-transit-tracking-app-for-commuters-e09c7d","markdown_url":"https://allsidehustleideas.com/ideas/real-time-transit-tracking-app-for-commuters-e09c7d.md","tags":{"category":{"value":"software","label":"Software and apps","confidence":0.95},"earns_from":{"value":"subscription","label":"Subscriptions","confidence":0.73},"startup_cost_estimate":{"value":"1k-10k","label":"$1k to $10k","confidence":0.52},"time_estimate":{"value":"hands-off","label":"Hands-off","confidence":0.36},"where":{"value":"online","label":"Online","confidence":0.95},"needs_coding":{"value":true,"confidence":0.99}},"owner_reported":null,"source":{"publication":"Hacker News","title":"Ask HN: What are your passive income sources?","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12801137","person":"ehynds","host":null,"date":"2016-10-26"},"owner_site":null}}