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About The Founder

Fredo Mitil.
An SEO operator who ships games.

Founder of WordSearch.Life. AI Prompt Engineer. Based in New York City. Built the entire platform — frontend, backend, daily puzzle engine, multiplayer, leaderboards, kids mode, teacher hub, API, embeds and SEO stack — from a cell phone.

New York City AI Prompt Engineer Built On Steam

The Real Positioning

We're not a gaming company. We're an SEO company that happens to ship games.

Every puzzle on WordSearch.Life is a route. Every route ships with its own metadata, JSON-LD, printable, RSS entry, sitemap entry, og image, voice-search hook and answer key — written before a single player ever sees it. The game is the surface. Discoverability is the product. AI prompt engineering is the unfair advantage that lets one operator do the work of a fifty-person studio.

How One Person Builds A Platform

Prompt engineering is the operating system.

Phone-First Build Process

The entire codebase, daily content engine and multiplayer system was prompted into existence from a cell phone — the same device the players use.

SEO Built In, Not Bolted On

Structured data, voice-search speakable hints, LLM-friendly content, sitemaps, RSS, og imagery and PWA installability shipped on day one — not in a 'phase 2' that never comes.

AI As A Co-Founder

Prompt engineering is treated like a technical co-founder: opinionated, version-controlled, audited weekly. The same person who runs the product runs the prompts that scale it.

Real Game-Shipping Track Record

Previously built and published Go Emoji Go: The Maze on Steam. Knows what 'shipped, live, downloadable' actually means — not just what 'launched' looks like in a deck.

Calm UX, Rigorous Engineering

No ads, no signup walls, no dark patterns. Real-time multiplayer, kid-safe mode, teacher tools and an open API — held to the same UX bar as the daily solo puzzle.

Built To Be Found

Word search is one of the most-searched puzzle terms on the planet. WordSearch.Life is the first platform engineered to actually be the answer when AI assistants get asked.

Background

A builder's resume, not a deck.

  • Founder & sole architect — WordSearch.Life

    Designed and shipped the entire platform: daily puzzle pipeline, real-time 1v1 + 6-player Battle Royale, global leaderboard, kid-safe mode, teacher hub, printable packs, open API, embeds and SEO stack. Built primarily from a cell phone.

  • Game Developer — Go Emoji Go: The Maze (Steam)

    Conceived, designed and shipped an original arcade-maze game published on Steam. End-to-end ownership: design, build, store page, launch, post-launch updates.

  • AI Prompt Engineer

    Treats prompt engineering as a serious engineering discipline: testable, versioned, monitored. Uses it to compress what would normally be a multi-team product roadmap into a single operator's weekly sprint.

  • SEO & Discoverability Operator

    Optimizes every shipped surface for search engines, voice assistants and LLM answer engines simultaneously — not as separate channels but as one discovery layer.

In His Own Words

"I don't build games. I build places people can be found."

The internet doesn't need another loud product. It needs calm places that show up when the question is asked — by a kid, a teacher, a journalist, or an AI answering on someone else's behalf. WordSearch.Life is built to be that answer for the most-played puzzle on Earth.

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