E-commerce site built for profit share
Built an online store for an acquaintance in exchange for a share of profits each pay period.
At a glance
Estimated by a classifier that read the source. The bar shows how sure it was.
- Category
- Services and freelancing60% surex
- Earns from
- Marketplace cut84% surex
- Startup cost (estimate)
- $100 to $1kLow confidence38% surex
- Time it takes (estimate)
- Hands-off65% surex
- Where
- Online96% surex
- Coding
- Needs coding92% surex
Source
Hacker NewsComment by ghhutch in “What was your best passive income in 2014?”, July 30, 2014
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