Network of niche job boards and content sites
Built job listing sites and blogs that run mostly automatically and cover expenses with ads and sponsorships.
At a glance
Estimated by a classifier that read the source. The bar shows how sure it was.
- Category
- Directories and marketplacesLow confidence52% surex
- Earns from
- Ads84% surex
- Startup cost (estimate)
- $100 to $1kLow confidence59% surex
- Time it takes (estimate)
- Hands-off83% surex
- Where
- Online99% surex
- Coding
- Needs coding95% surex
Source
Hacker NewsComment by pythonbase in “Ask HN: Software developers, what is your side income?”, April 7, 2021
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