The easiest way ever to control who you share your app with

Starting today, Glitch members with paid subscriptions can easily control who accesses their code and who sees live projects.

Better sharing settings #

We’ve made sharing your app easier than ever. Control who has access and who can edit a project all without having to build some complicated authentication system for your project.

Here are just a handful of things you can do with this feature:

• **Stay in stealth mode until launch. **Developer advocates can build demos and keep them private until the big announcement.
• **Share code with students or workshop attendees. **From classrooms to conferences, you can control who sees assignments and projects.
• **Build internal tools. **Whether you’re prototyping a new feature or using Glitch for your latest greatest Slack integration, create apps with your colleagues in mind.
• **Interview candidates. **We’ve heard from teams who use Glitch to evaluate new team members. Now it’s even easier to share code examples with potential hires.
• **Grow your own private blog or newsletter. **Have something you want to save for your inner circle? Share your best ideas with a select audience. **Here’s how it works: **

Build a project and hit the “Share” button in the top left just like you normally would. You’ll see a new pop up with a drop down menu where you can set your project’s sharing settings.

• Public is the default setting, which makes your project visible and its code remixable for everyone
• Private limits both your code and live site to project members
• Private Code keeps the live site visible, but restricts code to project members  We’ve eliminated the ability to join projects with share links and instead, are now asking project owners to explicitly invite collaborators via email. This implementation is more secure and gives projects owners greater visibility into who has access.

Current free users with “private” projects will still have their code only visible to members of their project. However, changing a project from private to public on a free account can’t be reversed.

What’s next? #

We’re spending a lot of time thinking about how to better enable groups of users on Glitch and what collaboration looks like in a professional setting. Since we launched our paid tier in the spring, we’ve seen lots of individual creators build more powerful apps and also introduce Glitch into some of their professional workflows - from hiring and onboarding team members to prototyping new features and internal tools. We’ll share more on this front as our roadmap evolves.

If you have any fun or interesting projects you’re building using today’s news, feel free to tag us on Twitter or email community@glitch so we can share with the community!