Small single-purpose websites from an agency
A studio builds quick websites that solve small problems, getting traffic from blogs and earning from AdSense.
At a glance
Estimated by a classifier that read the source. The bar shows how sure it was.
- Category
- Content and media71% surex
- Earns from
- Ads97% surex
- Startup cost (estimate)
- Under $100Low confidence40% surex
- Time it takes (estimate)
- Hands-off77% surex
- Where
- Online99% surex
- Coding
- Needs coding92% surex
Source
Hacker NewsComment by KurtElster in “What was your best passive income in 2014?”, July 30, 2014
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