{"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-game-development-book-e51e46","title":"Self-published game development book","summary":"Wrote and self-published a book about a game framework. Earns a small monthly income from sales.","url":"https://allsidehustleideas.com/ideas/self-published-game-development-book-e51e46","markdown_url":"https://allsidehustleideas.com/ideas/self-published-game-development-book-e51e46.md","tags":{"category":{"value":"digital-products","label":"Digital products","confidence":0.82},"earns_from":{"value":"one-time","label":"One-time sales","confidence":0.95},"startup_cost_estimate":{"value":"100-1k","label":"$100 to $1k","confidence":0.44},"time_estimate":{"value":"hands-off","label":"Hands-off","confidence":0.9},"where":{"value":"online","label":"Online","confidence":0.98},"needs_coding":{"value":false,"confidence":0.63}},"owner_reported":null,"source":{"publication":"Hacker News","title":"Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2018?","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18481332","person":"MegaLeon","host":null,"date":"2018-11-18"},"owner_site":"http://discover-haxeflixel.com/"}}