In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with the creator of Wordle, Josh Wardle. What's the tech stack for Wordle? Does he care about the clones of Wordle? And how did selling Wordle work?
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Show Notes
00:27:02 Guest introduction
Wordle
02:45:13 How did Wordle go viral initially?
05:27:14 Where did the idea for Wordle come from?
07:07:06 What's your background?
Reddit.com
12:52:23 Writing just HTML CSS and JavaScript
15:58:24 Wordle has 2 external dependancies
16:41:06 Sponsor: Sentry
17:40:23 The tech stack of Wordle
Lit Elements
just-merge
gzip
Cloudflare
AWS S3
22:21:04 Would you use web components again?
29:36:08 How much did hosting cost?
29:55:01 How does Wordle remember my streak?
33:56:07 Do you play Wordle everyday?
36:28:11 Sponsor: Sanity
37:16:07 How do you land on internet hits so often?
40:33:15 Are you aware of the clones?
Gordle
44:33:15 Sponsor: Freshbooks
45:17:10 Selling Wordle to the New York Times
49:05:20 Dealing with the domain name
54:15:09 What's his opener word?
56:03:03 Juice
Juice it or Lose it talk
59:10:06 Sick Picks!
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