Until we meet again
Earlier this month our team began the very difficult work of ending support for project hosting on Glitch. That work has now mostly been completed, meaning that the large majority of our work on Glitch have also come to an end. So consider this post to be our team’s thank you card, yearbook entry, or bon voyage message to the Glitch Community. ✨
I joined this team in early 2021 with the expectation that I would stick around through the summer doing some contract work before finding a “real job.” (My partner referred to it as “summer camp.”) That somehow turned into 4 years of working here, and I’m grateful to have had the opportunity to collaborate with amazing people and to provide a service that meant something to so many others. I’m not happy to say goodbye, but I’m glad that I got to be here to do it, and with that in mind I’d also like to say goodbye on behalf of those of us who aren’t around any more to do so.
Thanks to all of you who, with your appreciation of Glitch, made it possible for us to stick around as long as we did. Farewell! – Casey Kolderup, Software Developer
The thing I will always appreciate about Glitch is that it made the experience of building something on the web fun. Before, as a self-taught coder, the “fun” came from proving to myself that I could figure out how to make a thing show up on a website (sometimes lol). But with Glitch, the creating part was made fun, and not a lot of experiences are geared toward that so it felt very special to me, a fun enthusiast. When you start with fun, the rest is just details and teamwork.
– Jenn Turner, Content & Comms
Once upon a time I worked on a Mozilla Foundation product called Thimble, which was part of the Webmaker initiative and was an editor for making web pages, and it was fantastic. When the foundation had to shelve it, we spent a long time finding the right folks to send the community over to, and we landed on what would become Glitch. I never could say goodbye to that project and mindset, so when I had the opportunity to join Glitch I jumped on it - for the last 3 years I’ve enjoyed that same feeling of working for the community and web, empowering everyone to use the web the way it was meant to: no barriers to entry, no BS “you must be this tall to ride,” just sit down, make a thing, put it out there, because that’s what the web was about.
Having to say goodbye to the project I love for a second time is hard, but who knows, maybe there’ll be a third opportunity to keep pushing for the open web, accessible to all, not just “to consume,” but to build, own, and teach. The name may fade away, but the drive never will: let’s meet somewhere new on the web we build, while we’re building it! – Pomax, maker of webby things
My favorite part of working here was seeing what our community would build with Glitch - from the weird and wacky to the downright beautiful and everything in between. It’s truly been an open playground that encouraged everyone to be themselves and build what they want, how they wanted to. I’m proud of all of the work my coworkers have done through the years, the time, effort, joy and enthusiasm they did it with, and also the way that every decision that was made had “How do we best serve our community?” as the top priority. Thank you all for making Glitch what it’s been through these years! – Sean O’Brien, Product Manager
I’ve been fanatical about Glitch for so long I’m struggling to imagine life without it tbh. As an educator I’ve used it for teaching through several jobs and many years of personal projects. Getting to join the team was like being invited backstage to meet my favourite band!
When you teach people to make their first website in Glitch, within minutes you see the fear disappear, washed away by the joy of creating. One of my favourite things about the editor was how safe it felt, that wee sweary face basically rewarded you for making mistakes and breaking your code lol. I can't think of another platform that’s so easy people would use it to spin up apps purely for shitposting purposes, to me that is now the benchmark... I’m not sure the web will see its like again, but I hope I’m wrong! 😭 – Sue Smith, Learning & Developer Experience Stuff
Glitch users can still access their project dashboards to download projects or set project redirects until the beginning of 2026. For more information, visit the community forum at support.glitch.com, or reach out at support@glitch.com.