Rent out tables at local comic conventions

Rents out tables to vendors at local comic conventions.

At a glance
Tags are estimates from Clef, a classifier that read the source. Each one shows how sure it was.

Category

Rentals and assets
88% sure

Earns from

Rent
97% sure

Startup cost (estimate)

$100 to $1kLow confidence
38% sure

Time it takes (estimate)

A few hours a weekLow confidence
44% sure

Where

In person
66% sure

Coding

No coding needed
99% sure
Source
Shared by bayarearefugee on June 22, 2026, in the Hacker News thread “Ask HN: Do you have an unusual income source”.
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The summary above is ours. Any income figures are the operator’s own claims, in the source.

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