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Card game for underserved groups sold via Amazon

Designs and sells a card game aimed at women, people of color and LGBTQ players. Ships stock to an Amazon warehouse every couple of weeks and runs some Facebook advertising.

At a glance
Estimated by a classifier that read the source. The bar shows how sure it was.
Category
Physical products
97% sure
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Earns from
One-time sales
94% sure
x
Startup cost (estimate)
Over $10kLow confidence
60% sure
x
Time it takes (estimate)
Part-timeLow confidence
43% sure
x
Where
Online
75% sure
x
Coding
No coding needed
98% sure
x
Source
Hacker NewsComment by xchefhatx in “Ask HN: What are your passive income sources?”, October 26, 2016

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