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About Wordy

Sandor Bogyo, Founder and CEO of Wordy

Sandor Bogyo

Founder & CEO at Wordy

Sandor is a 25-year-old indie app developer from Budapest, passionate about building products that make learning better. After graduating in Computer Science from Budapest University of Technology and Economics and winning the Apple WWDC Swift Student Challenge, he launched Wordy — a language learning app that teaches vocabulary through real movie and TV show clips. Wordy has been featured on TechCrunch and Apple's "Apps We Love," reaching over 500,000 downloads in 100+ countries.

Credentials & Awards

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Budapest University of Technology and Economics

B.Sc. Computer Science (2019-2022)

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OTP Junior Piacralepok Grand Prize Winner

Won the 10,000,000 HUF grand prize in Hungary's leading business competition for young entrepreneurs (2025)

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Apple WWDC Swift Student Challenge Winner

Selected by Apple for outstanding SwiftUI app development (2022)

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Y Combinator AI Startup School

Only Hungarian participant invited to YC's AI Startup School in San Francisco (2024)

Get in Touch

Interested in collaborating, or just want to talk startups, product, or language learning? Let's connect.