{"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-published-e-book-sold-online-903fb7","title":"Self-published e-book sold online","summary":"Published an e-book priced as an impulse purchase, expecting it to keep earning with no stock to manage.","url":"https://allsidehustleideas.com/ideas/self-published-e-book-sold-online-903fb7","markdown_url":"https://allsidehustleideas.com/ideas/self-published-e-book-sold-online-903fb7.md","tags":{"category":{"value":"digital-products","label":"Digital products","confidence":0.93},"earns_from":{"value":"one-time","label":"One-time sales","confidence":0.97},"startup_cost_estimate":{"value":"under-100","label":"Under $100","confidence":0.53},"time_estimate":{"value":"hands-off","label":"Hands-off","confidence":0.93},"where":{"value":"online","label":"Online","confidence":0.99},"needs_coding":{"value":false,"confidence":0.88}},"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=2358275","person":"atgm","host":null,"date":"2011-03-23"},"owner_site":"http://www.branchrock.com"}}