Restore vintage computers and resell on eBay
Buys broken old computers, restores them and sells them on eBay.
At a glance
Estimated by a classifier that read the source. The bar shows how sure it was.
- Category
- Physical products84% surex
- Earns from
- One-time sales87% surex
- Startup cost (estimate)
- $100 to $1kLow confidence55% surex
- Time it takes (estimate)
- Part-timeLow confidence52% surex
- Where
- Online and in person79% surex
- Coding
- No coding needed98% surex
Source
Hacker NewsComment by gbin in “Ask HN: What is your money-making side project outside programming?”, April 22, 2019
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