{"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":"royalties-from-embedded-device-software-9c7da7","title":"Royalties from embedded device software","summary":"Wrote embedded software and earned a royalty on every device shipped for many years.","url":"https://allsidehustleideas.com/ideas/royalties-from-embedded-device-software-9c7da7","markdown_url":"https://allsidehustleideas.com/ideas/royalties-from-embedded-device-software-9c7da7.md","tags":{"category":{"value":"software","label":"Software and apps","confidence":0.57},"earns_from":{"value":"subscription","label":"Subscriptions","confidence":0.36},"startup_cost_estimate":{"value":"under-100","label":"Under $100","confidence":0.44},"time_estimate":{"value":"hands-off","label":"Hands-off","confidence":0.94},"where":{"value":"online","label":"Online","confidence":0.66},"needs_coding":{"value":true,"confidence":0.96}},"owner_reported":null,"source":{"publication":"Hacker News","title":"Ask HN: Those with money-making side projects,how did you come up with the idea?","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33943765","person":"indymike","host":null,"date":"2022-12-11"},"owner_site":null}}