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They bought it for low 7 figures, thats a huge bargain. It would have cost them that much in developer time to build it, forget about the marketing.
by cm2012 5y ago
They bought it for low 7 figures, thats a huge bargain. It would have cost them that much in developer time to build it, forget about the marketing.
- swalls 5y agoWhat? Even a junior dev could clone Wordle in a day, maybe add a week for polishing the animations and such.
- endisneigh 5y agoyou have to be joking. you think it would cost 7 figures to recreate wordle?
- cm2012 5y agoFor a big company like the NYtimes, it would not surprise me. But in any case the built in audience is what they're buying.
- grepLeigh 5y agoIn my experience, businesses are wildly capital-inefficient at shipping software. The personnel needed to ship something in a tech org with 100s or 1000s of employees might look like... - Front-end developer - Back-end developer - DevOps / Infra - UX/Designer - Product Manager - Engineering Manager - Security, Risk & Compliance, Legal (ensure someone doesn't sue NYT over some mis-worded privacy policy or mis-use of user data) If project planning occurs in quarters (or half-quarters, for those "nimble" cos), getting the Wordle project green-lit means spending 1/4-1/8th year of salaries/benefits for this squad all-in. Kudos to the creator for making this sale! Great timing, hope the money is life-changing in the best possible way.
- cr1895 5y ago> It would have cost them that much in developer time to build it I’m not really into the backstory but isn’t this game a quick project of one software engineer in his free time?