My first thought as well. This is the most complicated stack I’ve seen for something so simple. Just convinced me more to avoid using JavaScript as a backend
I play this pretty much every day and thought this was a really cool idea. Looks like they had a lot of issues with using openAI as well as the costs: https://api.guessthe.game/api/create_subscription/
Maybe because it’s they spend 10+ years trying to get to that position, accumulating hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt, working 80 hour weeks in an industry that has now become service based with high potential for litigation.