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Teaching and coaching

Online music school

An online music education site that earns from sales and recurring subscriptions, built in evenings and weekends.

At a glance
Estimated by a classifier that read the source. The bar shows how sure it was.
Category
Teaching and coaching
66% sure
x
Earns from
Subscriptions
83% sure
x
Startup cost (estimate)
$1k to $10kLow confidence
48% sure
x
Time it takes (estimate)
A few hours a weekLow confidence
43% sure
x
Where
Online
98% sure
x
Coding
Needs coding
69% sure
x
Source
Hacker NewsComment by blakerson in “Your best passive income? (2014)”, January 21, 2014

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