Marketplace for Flash website components
Runs a marketplace and sells components on larger marketplaces, still earning from support and sales.
At a glance
Estimated by a classifier that read the source. The bar shows how sure it was.
- Category
- Directories and marketplaces64% surex
- Earns from
- One-time sales69% surex
- Startup cost (estimate)
- $1k to $10kLow confidence42% surex
- Time it takes (estimate)
- Hands-offLow confidence51% surex
- Where
- Online99% surex
- Coding
- Needs coding91% surex
Source
Hacker NewsComment by vuzum in “Your best passive income? (2014)”, January 21, 2014
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