{"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-harmonica-and-fiction-ebooks-47ab08","title":"Self-published harmonica and fiction ebooks","summary":"Sells a harmonica instruction book and science fiction short story collections on Amazon, and also sells stories to magazines.","url":"https://allsidehustleideas.com/ideas/self-published-harmonica-and-fiction-ebooks-47ab08","markdown_url":"https://allsidehustleideas.com/ideas/self-published-harmonica-and-fiction-ebooks-47ab08.md","tags":{"category":{"value":"digital-products","label":"Digital products","confidence":0.88},"earns_from":{"value":"one-time","label":"One-time sales","confidence":0.94},"startup_cost_estimate":{"value":"under-100","label":"Under $100","confidence":0.71},"time_estimate":{"value":"hands-off","label":"Hands-off","confidence":0.82},"where":{"value":"online","label":"Online","confidence":0.95},"needs_coding":{"value":false,"confidence":0.99}},"owner_reported":null,"source":{"publication":"Hacker News","title":"Ask HN: What is your money-making side project outside programming?","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19713311","person":"kpgraham","host":null,"date":"2019-04-21"},"owner_site":null}}