Julian Wachholz

Almost 9 years ago I was fascinated by the Cicada 3301 phenomenon and wanted to create my own variation of it, so I started collecting ideas in a spreadsheet. Now I can finally present you with this 20-step challenge that I think likeminded web-fanatics like me will really enjoy! I think as far as side projects go this one didn't take me too long... Do you have what it takes to join the hall...

After releasing my free weekend project, companies soon started contacting me about bespoke solutions. It was completely unexpected so I absolutely blew the first request. When the second request landed, I decided to turn it into a SaaS so everyone could do custom puzzle pages! 🧩 It's been about three months now. WORD.RODEO has grown nicely, has a robust feature set and some big names already...

Friday afternoon, I wanted to challenge a friend to guess my word and I made him play a game of guess the word via Slack and I replied with the emojis to match. Copying and pasting 🟩🟩⬛⬛🟨 on every message wasn't easy! So I created this game for my friends!

You should let me use the email address that I give you and not tell me that my email is invalid.

Hi Neil, great tool you have there! I have a question: When did you decide to adopt HTTPS for your website? Great call! But you were so adamant that it's a bad and useless thing in the past.