Last Year on Glitch 2023
This was the third year of recognizing the projects that the Glitch community dreamt up over the past twelve months. So many apps and websites were created that intrigued us, inspired us, made us chuckle—or made us gasp, and in general made us smile. Last Year on Glitch serves as a love letter of sorts to the creators and projects that made 2023 unforgettable.
📈 Most Shared on Social Media – ~blackoutpoetry #
A long-beloved tool on Glitch for generating thought-provoking poetry, ~blackoutpoetry broke through during a strange year for social media, as our most shared app of 2023.
🚀 Best Fediverse App 🆕 – ~stefans-creative-bots #
If you have a favorite Mastodon bot or started learning to create your own, there’s a pretty good chance that @stefan was somehow involved in the journey. Through creating bots and the project jointhefediverse.net, Stefan’s impact on the Fediverse and Glitch cannot be understated!
**🏆 Honorable mentions **
- ~mastodon-embeds created by @andypiper
- ~postmarks created by @ckolderup
💡 Made You Learn – ~creating-with-data #
Creating with Data is a series of tutorials and demos on Glitch helping the community how to tell stories with data and code. Clearly a labor of love by @digitalWestie, it’s a great start for anyone wanting to get into data visualization in the new year.
**🏆 Honorable mentions **
- ~gita-typing-game created by @pd2
- ~hotdog-pi-toss created by @alisonag
▶️ Best Playlist on Glitch – @n.hieda/niche-templates #
@n.heida’s Niche Templates is a playlist of a wide variety of starters they created to kick off their own artistic endeavors, and for them to share them all with us is a gift we are ever so grateful for.
**🏆 Honorable mentions **
🤣 Made You LOL – ~moldy-world #
@swimygraphics’ moldy food is our digital treasure, thanks to their show-stopping gallery of photographed moldy foods. When I’m done writing this, I’m going to clean my fridge out.
**🏆 Honorable mentions **
- ~hotdog-pi-toss created by @alisonag
- ~sportrait created by @sobrien26
🐸 Most Beautiful Apps – ~love-letters-to-places-ill-never-meet #
Between the stunning watercolor map and the creative homage to closed locations using Yelp reviews, @elankiderman’s Love Letters exhibit beauty from idea to digital execution.
**🏆 Honorable mentions **
- ~mxstudio created by @ktduffyincorperated
- ~cloudwatching created by @chia
⚒️ Most Helpful Tools – ~babypi #
Not only is BabyPi a helpful tool for caretakers wanting to keep babies engaged and using tech safely, @kfarr’s well written tutorials can help anyone wanting to connect the web to a Raspberry Pi whether they are babies or not.
**🏆 Honorable mentions **
- ~nice-typhoon-kiwi created by @SummerAnneBurton
- ~writepad created by @aboutdavid
🥽 Coolest WebXR Experience – ~cinta #
@rosapark0328 takes the beautiful medium of watercolor, the gorgeous setting of a Panama sunset, and brings it to all of us with the power of WebXR using A-frame.
**🏆 Honorable mentions **
- ~escape-artist created by @kolson and @jameskane05
- ~mintycrisp-a-frame-game-of-life created by @mintycrisp
🤯 Most Inspiring Apps – ~bergenbikebus #
Bike buses empower students and families to use biking to get to school safely. The Bergen Bike Bus tracker by @daniel73473 has helped get the word out about this fun, environmental movement and uses Glitch to gather participants and map routes.
**🏆 Honorable mentions **
- ~should-spd-do-it created by @skweetis, @matt87125 and @pjsc
- ~advice-to-myself created by @OmarSamehShehata
🤔 Least likely place you’d think you’d find a Glitch app but it’s there #
A forum about magic mushrooms had a thread comparing f1-start scores, another often viral app, created by @jakearchibald.
For more 2023 goodness check out some of the best from around our community in this gallery playlist:
@community/from-the-gallery-2023
We can’t wait to see what all you create in 2024! 🎉