A friend introduced me to Grepolis. I started playing and liked the game but I did not want to spend my time playing the game, so I wanted to write some code to play on my behalf and I would get human satisfaction from my code playing the game by proxy.

I started looking into the requests/responses, and I found something cool in the HTTP response headers that was something along the lines of "If you are reading this, please consider applying to work at our company".

One other instance of this is a company here that posted an opening for software developers. The page was blank, so naturally I opened the console to see what's wrong. There were comments in the page that said "Congratulations, you passed the first step. To get the link of the page, please decode this message in Morse and send us the code you used to do that". I didn't write any code because I was familiar with Morse code, so I got the link directly.

I was contacted by their CTO shortly after. I had already been hired in the meantime (by another CTO at another company and they knew each other apparently). I told him I found it pretty cool and interesting. He said that very few people found the link and applied.

These things can be fun.