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One of the big purchasers of leftover CueCat inventory was Librarything. They still sell them (for $5 at the moment) on their store, and have built features to use them for cataloging and searching your books.



Given that they were originally given away for free, this is essentially an ∞% return on investment, thus making CueCat the most successful startup in history…





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