Practice your dev skills in a real-world environments through quests
A farewell note to the trywilco.com community. Wilco is joining Lemonade.
Practice your dev skills in a real-world environments through quests launched on June 21, 2022 with 13 votes, #938 of 3,005 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 4 years on.
In plain words
Wilco is a platform where developers complete quests set in realistic work scenarios to build practical coding skills. Launched in 2022, it offers hands-on experience through real-world problem-solving rather than traditional tutorials. The service is designed for programmers who want to learn by doing, tackling actual development challenges in a structured quest format. It bridges the gap between learning basics and working on production-like code, making it suitable for those seeking practical experience before or alongside professional development work.
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To everyone who built, broke, learned, and laughed with us on trywilco.com - thank you. At Wilco, we've always believed in the power of practical experience in software engineering. That's why we built a "flight simulator" for developers: a place where you can break things, debug messy systems, and handle real-world complexity... without causing any real damage. Being a true AI-Native company means we built this with just a handful of people. Today, we're excited to share that the team is joining Lemonade. While coding received most of the attention, we saw it as just one of many skills - no more important than architecture, communication, and everything else that makes great engineers,…from trywilco.com
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