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Software and apps

Pay-per-character message site using Bitcoin

Built a website where people pay in Bitcoin per character to post a message.

At a glance
Estimated by a classifier that read the source. The bar shows how sure it was.
Category
Software and apps
84% sure
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Earns from
One-time sales
77% sure
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Startup cost (estimate)
$100 to $1k
63% sure
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Time it takes (estimate)
Hands-off
87% sure
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Where
Online
99% sure
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Coding
Needs coding
98% sure
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Source
Hacker NewsComment by solomania9 in “What was your best passive income in 2014?”, July 30, 2014

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