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Show HN: Practice Wordle with No Limits

by mjmasn on 2/15/22, 8:58 PM with 5 comments

  • by mjmasn on 2/15/22, 8:58 PM

    A little word guessing game called LingoLingoLingo that I made over the Christmas period after watching TV episodes of Lingo and being introduced to Wordle. I didn't have the patience to wait for the new Wordle word each day and wasn't enjoying the barrage of adverts in the official Lingo mobile apps so I thought I'd make something of my own. Started as just a quick demo in the browser console but spurred on by family members I made it into an actual website.

    I've made a few improvements (particularly around making the word list more friendly - nothing worse than trying to guess a totally obscure or archaic word) and the site has been shared around friends/family/colleagues over the past month or so. It seems to be averaging 300+ visits per day now which honestly is surpassing my incredibly low expectations for the site.

    Tech stack was just sticking to what I know: React / Redux / Styled Components, and hosted on Cloudflare pages.

    Would love to hear any feedback / suggestions!

    Side note: I originally hosted this with Netlify but wasn't keen on paying for analytics that were very clearly padded out with bots/hackers trying to find wordpress admin pages. Interested to see if anyone has had similar experience? Using the Cloudflare JS-based analytics seems to be giving much more realistic figures and I think it's a nice balance between purely server-log-driven analytics and the more sinister tracking-everything-you-do that you get with Google Analytics. Interestingly a lot of traffic (around one-third of all visits) is via the Bing search engine.

  • by ksherlock on 2/16/22, 1:01 AM

    First word it gave me was "devel" which isn't in any of my dictionaries.

  • by welcome_dragon on 2/16/22, 3:24 PM

    Boo! It didn't take my preferred start word "aeros"

  • by harscoat on 2/15/22, 9:02 PM

    really cool :) Cheers!