Build and run an escape room
Built an escape room game with colleagues in a rented warehouse after trying local ones.
At a glance
Estimated by a classifier that read the source. The bar shows how sure it was.
- Category
- Services and freelancingLow confidence42% surex
- Earns from
- RentLow confidence39% surex
- Startup cost (estimate)
- Over $10k85% surex
- Time it takes (estimate)
- Part-timeLow confidence38% surex
- Where
- In person74% surex
- Coding
- Needs coding72% surex
Source
Hacker NewsComment by Schwolop in “Ask HN: Those with money-making side projects,how did you come up with the idea?”, December 15, 2022
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