>I own the house I currently live in because of a script I wrote. Somewhat similar story for me. I live in a big European city where young people/students pred

>I own the house I currently live in because of a script I wrote. Somewhat similar story for me. I live in a big European city where young people/students predominantly live in flatshares. One website which pretty much has a monopoly on room ads here also allows room seekers to post an inquiry themselves. So many people do it that after less than half an hour, your ad will already be somewhere at the end of page 2. I wrote a script to automatically update my ad every few minutes to push it back to the top. I ended up getting a lot of responses I probably wouldn't have gotten otherwise.