{"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":"self-hosted-social-network-software-01bb46","title":"Self-hosted social network software","summary":"Sold software that lets people build their own social network, later releasing the code for free.","url":"https://allsidehustleideas.com/ideas/self-hosted-social-network-software-01bb46","markdown_url":"https://allsidehustleideas.com/ideas/self-hosted-social-network-software-01bb46.md","tags":{"category":{"value":"software","label":"Software and apps","confidence":0.93},"earns_from":{"value":"subscription","label":"Subscriptions","confidence":0.59},"startup_cost_estimate":{"value":"100-1k","label":"$100 to $1k","confidence":0.36},"time_estimate":{"value":"hands-off","label":"Hands-off","confidence":0.4},"where":{"value":"online","label":"Online","confidence":0.98},"needs_coding":{"value":true,"confidence":0.99}},"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=2358867","person":"leftnode","host":null,"date":"2011-03-23"},"owner_site":"http://blog.leftnode.com/entry/first-month-kwolla-sales-report"}}