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Here goes the private, ad-free experience. Hopeful Wardle sold it under certain conditions considering he didn’t monetize when he had the chance.

I know it’ll remain like it was for some time but eventually be monetized.



> Wordle was acquired for an undisclosed price in the low-seven figures.

Looks like he found a pretty solid monetization strategy.


A link to a html5 app in the App store on the wordle site would have made a lot more than that.


That would literally make $0. What are you talking about? Where is the revenue coming from?


A lot of people would have paid a dollar to have it in an "App". I know you can add a shortcut on iOS but it isn't easy to find and people would pay to have Wordle in their "games" folder.


https://wordhoot.com/ is a really good Wordle alternative that's private and ad-free.




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