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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? Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your code, track errors and monitor performance with Sentry. Sentry’s Application Monitoring platform helps developers see performance issues, fix errors faster, and optimize their code health. Cut your time on error resolution from hours to minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners new to Sentry can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code TASTYTREAT during sign up. Sanity - Sponsor Sanity.io is a real-time headless CMS with a fully customizable Content Studio built in React. Get a Sanity powered site up and running in minutes at sanity.io/create. Get an awesome supercharged free developer plan on sanity.io/syntax. Freshbooks - Sponsor Get a 30 day free trial of Freshbooks at freshbooks.com/syntax. 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! ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Josh: Tupperware Scott: Giant tub of Epsom Salt Wes: Shameless Plugs Josh: Wordle Scott: KeystoneJS Course Wes: All Courses Tweet us your tasty treats Scott's Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes' Instagram Wes' Twitter Wes' Facebook Scott's Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets