Dharmesh Shah, Co-Founder of the Hustle, Created Worldplay.com As a Derivative of Wordle

Name: Dharmesh Shah, Co-Founder of the Hustle, Created Worldplay.com As a Derivative of Wordle
Uploaded: 2022-08-19T00:27:04+00:00
Duration: 34 s
Channel: Sam Parr
Description: In this interview segment, Dharmesh Shah recounts how Wordle surged in popularity during November and December 2021, reaching its peak in January 2022…

19 Aug 2022 · 1 min

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In this interview segment, Dharmesh Shah recounts how Wordle surged in popularity during November and December 2021, reaching its peak in January 2022 when the New York Times acquired it. Noticing limitations in the original game, Shah, an avid player, decided to create his own version, Worldplay.com, over a single weekend. He used Python as the development language, integrated Google Analytics for tracking, and launched the site by tweeting about it on a Sunday. Since launch, Worldplay.com has logged approximately 45 million games played by 9.5 million visitors, with real‑time concurrent users typically ranging between 2,000 and 3,000.

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November and December of last year, 2021, is when Wordle took off. And January is when it really kind of hit its, I think, close to its peak. And that's roughly when the New York Times acquired Wordle. But there were things that were kind of bothering me that were limitations in the game. And I was an avid player of the game. So on a Saturday night, I said, okay, well, let me build something. Python happens to be my language. We're going to have Google Analytics on it. So we're going to launch it. I'm going to launch it by tweeting it on that Sunday. And since then, it's had like 45 million games have been played. 9.5 million people have come through it. Any given moment in time right now, if I were to look at the Google analytics, it'd be 2,000, 3,000 people playing like right now.