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Ask HN: Best unintended use of your webservice?

2 pointsby TimHabout 14 years ago
I build a website called favstar.fm. Its purpose is to provide feedback on tweets - and easily show who is favoriting and retweeting your tweets.<p>This morning I woke up to discover a Japanese user has been using it as a canvas. Visit this tweet and click on the 'others' link next to retweets and you'll see a cool picture that they've put together by carefully setting up avatars for over 60 Twitter users, and then making them retweet a tweet in just the right order.<p>http://favstar.fm/t/30772880274886656<p>Has your webservice been used for something totally different than what you intended and produced a nice result?

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david927about 14 years ago
Our site, Kongoroo, (<a href="http://kongoroo.com" rel="nofollow">http://kongoroo.com</a>) is meant to be something like Reddit for kids sites, but we're noticing that the English language learning sites are popular for visitors from Spanish-speaking countries and China. Teaching kids English is great and we'll extend that usage, but we really didn't expect it.