I'm surprised that this made it to the top of HN. I did something similar for my friend's birthday last year, but I never considered it particularly newsworthy.

I'm surprised that this made it to the top of HN. I did something similar for my friend's birthday last year, but I never considered it particularly newsworthy. Another fun project was proving to our product manager that he was completely wrong (about listing overdue timesheet dates in reverse chronological order) by submitting the question to Mechanical Turk and getting instant user feedback. Does the popularity of this link mean that there is enough interest in Mechanical Turk to justify the creation of web apps around it?