Saying Bye to Glitch
49 points by pomdtr
49 points by pomdtr
Context:
“Glitch” is glitch.com
Glitch blog – Important Changes are Coming to Glitch, posted on May 22, 2025:
On July 8, 2025 Glitch project hosting and user profiles will be shut down. Your Glitch dashboard will remain available as usual through the end of 2025, with access to download all of your code for your projects, as well as a new feature to set up redirects for your project subdomains so your URLs keep working.
Some people close to Glitch are not happy: live laugh blog | on ‘important changes coming to glitch’
rip. time to write a script to download all my projects… (I have many hundreds iirc, dating back to when I was like 13)
You might want to post on the forums and ask for some archival help - you might be a good test case for their export tools.
Edit: for some reason I thought a tool was made available, it’s been left up to volunteers: https://support.glitch.com/t/tampermonkey-script-glitch-project-downloader/75849
If you visit the forum, the official bulk download script is a pinned post. I’m surprised you missed it? https://support.glitch.com/t/glitch-project-bulk-downloading/75872
A lot of Chrome DevRel people loved Glitch a lot. I used it to make it easy to follow along hands-on with this load performance tutorial, for example: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/devtools/lighthouse
We also used it as the foundation for our code examples on https://web.dev. You can see some running here still: https://web.dev/articles/read-files
Back during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic I remember Glitch was having major reliability issues, and I was quite frustrated with it.
I think the spiritual successor to Glitch is https://nekoweb.org. The founder (dimden) was shipping an impressive amount of new features constantly, about 6-12 months ago. Haven’t kept up with the project since then.
I think https://val.town is the closest successor to glitch. It was even mentionned by keith kurson (prev glitch) in his farewell blogpost
Val Town captures the closest thing to Glitch’s spirit. You build small, composable functions that can work together—an API here, a frontend there, maybe a cron job in between. Their AI tools are genuinely helpful because you’re working on focused, small-scope projects where AI can actually understand what you’re trying to do. An editor in the browser that builds and deploys your code instantly, who would have thought!