From Games to Tools for Work, Every Good Idea Can Become Your Own App

Glitch recently launched a paid tier, equipping users the power to give their apps extra memory, extra disk storage, keep their apps always on and take off any rate limits. With all of the different kinds of apps on the platform, we wanted to learn more about what our first members were boosting with the new capabilities they unlocked. We sent out a survey to get to know their work a little better.

🗄All Work 🖇 #

User Steve Anderson, chose to boost a barcode generator app that was important for his company. “I originally wrote it on Glitch as a prototype to replace a failing service my company was relying on, and had it up and running in an hour or so,” Steve explained. “Thanks to Glitch having git backing it, it was incredibly easy to get it moved over and running on a work server, and our clients rely on it for printing on generated invoices and delivery notes.”

At one point, a data center issue stopped his clients from being able to print their paperwork. “Fortunately we could temporarily redirect to the prototype, still running on Glitch, and it saved the day. Hurrah!”

Ada Rose Cannon, a Developer Advocate at Samsung, boosted her analytics app, aptly titled Adalytics Live. “I boosted it since it sits on every site I own so boosting it gives a performance increase to all those sites.”

🎯And All Play 🎲 #

On the other side of the app world, we also have a boosted game from Nigel Nelson called Swipe Wrong. “It's a game that lets you assemble a dating profile out of random words and then lets you browse through other submissions!”, Nigel said. “I wanted to keep it always-on to make sure nobody runs into a long loading screen instead of a fun game.”

Bryan Knowles has boosted their own hidden role game, Sneaky Epic Game. They decided to boost it “because it was an app [they were] proud of and the boosted badge seemed like a goof mark of pride and it fixes a rate limit problem the game had.”

Finally, Fabio Cortés, a creative coder and VR developer, has boosted some of his unique VR/AR apps, including a Pokémon experience. “Have you ever wondered [how it feels] to be in the middle of a Pokémon battle? Well, now you can experience it!”

In addition, Fabio boosted his viral Homer Metaverse app, which resembles a popular scene from The Simpsons. “My first memory about Virtual Reality is from The Simpsons. So, here it is, in AR/VR, right at your browser.”

All the boosted apps that creators submitted can be found in this collection. If you're interested in Glitch's paid membership, click to learn more.