{"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":"text-a-photo-send-a-postcard-service-79c9e5","title":"Text a photo, send a postcard service","summary":"A service where customers text a photo and a physical postcard is mailed. Built with a web framework and an SMS API, and paid per postcard.","url":"https://allsidehustleideas.com/ideas/text-a-photo-send-a-postcard-service-79c9e5","markdown_url":"https://allsidehustleideas.com/ideas/text-a-photo-send-a-postcard-service-79c9e5.md","tags":{"category":{"value":"software","label":"Software and apps","confidence":0.4},"earns_from":{"value":"one-time","label":"One-time sales","confidence":0.79},"startup_cost_estimate":{"value":"100-1k","label":"$100 to $1k","confidence":0.5},"time_estimate":{"value":"hands-off","label":"Hands-off","confidence":0.81},"where":{"value":"online","label":"Online","confidence":0.86},"needs_coding":{"value":true,"confidence":0.98}},"owner_reported":null,"source":{"publication":"Hacker News","title":"Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2016?","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13151386","person":"jastr","host":null,"date":"2016-12-11"},"owner_site":"TheSimplePostcard.com"}}