Fan-themed designs on print-on-demand merch
Uploaded humorous fan designs to a print-on-demand merchandise site and earns small royalties when items sell.
At a glance
Estimated by a classifier that read the source. The bar shows how sure it was.
- Category
- Physical products89% surex
- Earns from
- One-time salesLow confidence56% surex
- Startup cost (estimate)
- Under $10077% surex
- Time it takes (estimate)
- Hands-off96% surex
- Where
- Online98% surex
- Coding
- No coding needed97% surex
Source
Hacker NewsComment by soft_dev_person in “Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2016?”, December 11, 2016
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