The creator behind the original Wordle app Steven Cravotta and Ty-licia Hooker, the executive director of Boost! joined 'Getting Answers' on Tuesday to talk about a windfall of a turn of events that's now helping kids.
SAN FRANCISCO -- A game app created 5 years ago for fun by then 18-year-old developer blew up in downloads recently, thanks to its namesake of the viral browser game Wordle. And as a result, children in Oakland are benefitting.
The creator behind the original Wordle app Steven Cravotta and Ty-licia Hooker, the executive director of Boost! joined"Getting Answers" on Tuesday to talk about a windfall of a turn of events that's now helping kids. Cravotta says it all started when Wordle, the iOS app he created to brush up on his coding skills, started seeing light."I was doing one two downloads a day and then all of a sudden a couple weeks ago, I checked my developer dashboard and the graph just went vertical and I was getting 50,000 downloads every day," Cravotta said. He thinks users probably wanted to play the web Wordle game, the smash hit by Josh Wardle which is a web browser board game.
Cravotta says he never wanted to profit off the fame. So when the earnings started to rack up, he reached out to Josh Wardle in hopes of donating the proceeds to charity. Together, both creators of Wordle chose to donate to Boost!, a Oakland-based nonprofit that provides tutoring and mentoring to kids in the city's vulnerable areas. Boost's executive director could not have been more thrilled.
came across my app, also conveniently named Wordle. My Wordle app has gotten 200,000 downloads in the past 7 days and its not even slowing down yet. I reached out to
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