What’s the weirdest pivot you’ve ever made?

I was reading about the origins of Slack recently.

It started as an internal chat tool for a team building a multiplayer game called Glitch.

The game flopped but the internal comms tool turned out to be the real gold.

So they shut down the game and shipped the chat, the rest is startup legend.

It’s a reminder that some of the best products aren’t the original idea, they’re what you discover when you listen to how people actually work and adapt fast enough to follow the signal.

What’s the weirdest pivot you’ve made or seen someone pull off?