{"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":"rent-out-vr-headsets-through-a-website-c8c850","title":"Rent out VR headsets through a website","summary":"Bought a VR headset and set up a site where people could rent it. Ranked well on Google for rental searches, then shut it down.","url":"https://allsidehustleideas.com/ideas/rent-out-vr-headsets-through-a-website-c8c850","markdown_url":"https://allsidehustleideas.com/ideas/rent-out-vr-headsets-through-a-website-c8c850.md","tags":{"category":{"value":"rentals","label":"Rentals and assets","confidence":0.92},"earns_from":{"value":"rent","label":"Rent","confidence":0.97},"startup_cost_estimate":{"value":"1k-10k","label":"$1k to $10k","confidence":0.57},"time_estimate":{"value":"hands-off","label":"Hands-off","confidence":0.52},"where":{"value":"online","label":"Online","confidence":0.5},"needs_coding":{"value":false,"confidence":0.54}},"owner_reported":null,"source":{"publication":"Hacker News","title":"Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2016?","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13198873","person":"xni","host":null,"date":"2016-12-17"},"owner_site":null}}