When I was 16 years old I watched ‘The Social Network’ and became obsessed with coding
I built simple websites at first and eventually graduated to building mobile apps
The second app I build was called Wordle… it was a decent game that got downloaded about 90k times before I moved on from the project
The app sat in my apple developer account, until in 2021 another developer named Josh built a web based game, also called Wordle
Josh’s game went viral across the world. Tons of people were searching for his game… but most of the time when you search for a game you go to the AppStore, not google
Naturally, people searching for his game went to the appstore and downloaded my Wordle instead
A lot of other app developers tried to copy the exact game but Apple removed all of the copycats… except mine because it was the OG built before any other Wordle existed
Apple wiped out all the competition for me. I was the sole “Wordle” available on the appstore
Google also showed my app link as the second result after Josh’s. Wordle was the most googled word globally that year… lol
My tiny mobile app was downloaded over 10M times in the span of a few weeks
It changed my life forever. I still build apps to this day.
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