Hosted instance of open source software for friends
Lets a couple of people use a personal instance of an open source program they run, so they do not have to host it themselves, in exchange for a small monthly fee.
At a glance
Estimated by a classifier that read the source. The bar shows how sure it was.
- Category
- Software and apps73% surex
- Earns from
- Subscriptions87% surex
- Startup cost (estimate)
- $100 to $1kLow confidence45% surex
- Time it takes (estimate)
- Hands-off71% surex
- Where
- Online98% surex
- Coding
- Needs codingLow confidence53% surex
Source
Hacker NewsComment by frou_dh in “Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2016?”, December 11, 2016
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