I'm curious too. It would be harder to look through the phone book to find companies with bad programs :-)

Yes! Pretty much all I've done for years. An old hn post of mine...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=182489

[Edit: Oops, almost forgot that this was one of those posts where someone picked up on a seemingly insignificant detail and started a big debate over it. I posted the link to save myself from cutting and pasting. The "debate" below it is pointless.]

I tried this with some lawyers once back in the day when I just finished college ... needless to say these are some cheap ass motherf*ckrs ... they wanted almost everything for free - setting up their network, fixing their printer, calling comcast when internet was down etc. All this just because I wrote them a small desktop application.