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Staff paper notebooks for musicians

Designs and sells music notebooks with generated staff lines, using scripts to produce the print-ready PDF. Sold online and the owner is working on getting stores to carry them.

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Category
Physical products
94% sure
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Earns from
One-time sales
95% sure
x
Startup cost (estimate)
$100 to $1kLow confidence
45% sure
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Time it takes (estimate)
A few hours a weekLow confidence
40% sure
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Where
Online and in personLow confidence
57% sure
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Coding
Needs coding
74% sure
x
Source
Hacker NewsComment by memset in “Ask HN: What is your money-making side project outside programming?”, April 21, 2019
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