Dev
Engineering write-ups on how Poople is built: the word graph, the BFS-based solver, daily puzzle generation, and the classic algorithm problems behind it.
How We Built a Daily Word Ladder Game: The Graph Behind Poople
An engineering deep dive into how Poople works: the word ladder graph, the BFS-precomputed par, the runtime solver, and the daily puzzle math.
10 min
Word Ladder LeetCode: BFS Explained (127 and 126)
A developer walkthrough of LeetCode Word Ladder: BFS in Python solves problem 127 for the shortest path, backtracking solves every shortest path in Word Ladder II (126), and Poople shows the same graph problem running in production.
12 min