{"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":"wholesale-phone-repair-parts-and-screen-recycling-6c9336","title":"Wholesale phone repair parts and screen recycling","summary":"A wholesaler supplies replacement parts to independent repair shops and recycles broken screens. Money comes from selling parts to hundreds of shops.","url":"https://allsidehustleideas.com/ideas/wholesale-phone-repair-parts-and-screen-recycling-6c9336","markdown_url":"https://allsidehustleideas.com/ideas/wholesale-phone-repair-parts-and-screen-recycling-6c9336.md","tags":{"category":{"value":"physical-products","label":"Physical products","confidence":0.94},"earns_from":{"value":"one-time","label":"One-time sales","confidence":0.9},"startup_cost_estimate":{"value":"over-10k","label":"Over $10k","confidence":0.81},"time_estimate":{"value":"full-time","label":"Near full-time","confidence":0.55},"where":{"value":"both","label":"Online and in person","confidence":0.58},"needs_coding":{"value":false,"confidence":0.97}},"owner_reported":{"text":"Self-reported by Chris Koerner: $2.1M first full year, $4.8M (2014), $8.8M (2015), 31% gross and 8% net margin; revenue fell to $6.5M in 2016; sold to 700-800 shops; exited.","verified":false},"source":{"publication":"Top Founders","title":"EP 462: $8.8M 2015 sales of iPhone repair parts with CEO Chris Koerner","url":"https://nathanlatkathetop.libsyn.com/ep-462-88m-2015-sales-of-iphone-repair-parts-with-ceo-chris-koerner","person":"Chris Koerner","host":"Nathan Latka","date":"2016-10-29"},"owner_site":null}}