Animated GIF sites funded by ads
Runs cat and dog GIF websites supported by advertising.
At a glance
Estimated by a classifier that read the source. The bar shows how sure it was.
- Category
- Content and media92% surex
- Earns from
- Ads97% surex
- Startup cost (estimate)
- Under $10071% surex
- Time it takes (estimate)
- Hands-off84% surex
- Where
- Online99% surex
- Coding
- No coding needed85% surex
Source
Hacker NewsComment by tarball in “Your best passive income? (2014)”, January 21, 2014
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