Hint Ladder for daily word games

Layered hints and local shortest-route solving for the daily word ladder game

Problem

A player built a Poople helper site after noticing that existing guides just hand over the full answer; if you have already made several moves, a fixed route is useless. The official game offers no hint that continues from your current word, even though these daily word games attract large, habit-driven audiences.

Solution

A non-official hint site that reveals the next step gradually: first which letter position to change, then candidate letters, then the next word. Players can paste their current word and compute the remaining shortest route in-browser, and browse past puzzles and routes.

Users

Players of Poople, Wordle-likes, and other daily word games who enjoy the thinking process and resist being spoiled.

MVP

One game only (Poople) with a layered hint page; a current-word input that runs a client-side BFS for shortest remaining route; a past-puzzle archive with shareable links; mobile-first input UX; no signup.

Revenue

Free with ads, or a one-time 'skip ads / instant answer' purchase; later expand to more daily word games and charge a small subscription.

Why now

Daily word games are a stable traffic category but most helper sites are crude; static generation plus client-side solving gives a better experience than existing spoiler sites, and one person can maintain it and clone it for other games.