Gadget and gift idea affiliate site
Built a Rails site recommending gadgets and gifts and earning through affiliate links.
At a glance
Estimated by a classifier that read the source. The bar shows how sure it was.
- Category
- Content and media95% surex
- Earns from
- Affiliate97% surex
- Startup cost (estimate)
- Under $100Low confidence48% surex
- Time it takes (estimate)
- Hands-offLow confidence49% surex
- Where
- Online99% surex
- Coding
- Needs coding93% surex
Source
Hacker NewsComment by mhoad in “Your best passive income? (2014)”, January 21, 2014
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