Blog documenting an engineering licence application
Wrote a blog about the process of getting a professional engineering licence, which draws search traffic. Earns from ads and affiliate referrals to a seller of exam prep materials.
At a glance
Estimated by a classifier that read the source. The bar shows how sure it was.
- Category
- Content and media96% surex
- Earns from
- Affiliate81% surex
- Startup cost (estimate)
- Under $10077% surex
- Time it takes (estimate)
- Hands-off96% surex
- Where
- Online99% surex
- Coding
- No coding needed93% surex
Source
Hacker NewsComment by kohanz in “Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2016?”, December 11, 2016
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