5 products if you love Wordle, and 5 more games if you don't
It’s not all just fun and games. Sometimes it’s also a business opportunity where you never saw one coming.
Creator Josh Wardle sold his viral word game, Wordle, to the New York Times for an undisclosed amount in the “low seven figures.” The NYT said the game will continue on for free “initially” and Wardle said he's working with the media giant to make sure your wins and streaks will be preserved. Wardle, an ex-Reddit maker, created the word puzzle for his girlfriend (*nudges partner*).
Jonathan Knight, General Manager of Games at the New York Times, stated that Wordle “captured our collective imagination.” We saw that in the form of Wordle artwork and memes across the internet. Here at Product Hunt, we’ve also seen a lot of Wordle-inspired products, from analytics to tools that help solve your Wordle. And these great riffs off the five-letter game:
Pictle: A companion game where you must create specific pixel art patterns
Custom Wordle: Make and share your own words to challenge friends
Chengyu Wordle: Guess Chinese idioms in 6 tries
Stockle: Wordle, but with Stock tickers
Numble: Wordle for math lovers
If words are not your cup of tea, we got you. Check out these newcomer games others in the community are playing.
For web3 devotees: punksVshapes
For parents: Joon
For doodlers: PenPlay
For parties (remote or in-person): Mafia
For history lovers: WikiTrivia
Or tell the community what internet game you're obsessed with. 👇
This one is for all the Potterheads and website owners. hagrid is a no-code widget that lets you quickly add a user-generated FAQ section to any webpage. Users ask questions, you and your team answer them in a thread-like format.
“The questions and answers are public; unlike customer-support e-mails and chat, which are lost forever, and born again every day,” maker Vinod shares.
We asked 34 customers what Viktor does for them. Not one said chatbot.
They kept using words like colleague, coworker, team member. One CEO called it the glue holding their e-commerce business together, which is a lot, but also… you see why. It lives in Slack and plugs into 3,000+ tools, so instead of jumping between tabs, you just ask for the thing. Pull Stripe against HubSpot, check Sentry alerts, spin up a campaign brief, build a landing page, send a report upstairs. It all happens there.
It has already hit top 5 on Product Hunt with 130 comments, is SOC 2 certified, and your data does not train models.One user said it was the first time AI felt like a real coworker, which is either exciting or slightly concerning depending on your week.
🧮 Formula Studio is a code editor for writing and running Google Sheet formulas.
📽 A fun GPT-3 tool: AI-powered YouTube Idea Generator uses data from trending YouTube videos to generate ideas for viral clips.
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