Oh god no. I tried that same "realtime collaboration" feature with c9.io, and it quickly becomes a huge PITA when it's time to test your changes. If anyone is writing midsentence, you have to ask everyone to stop writing so you can test out your stuff, or you'll be swimming in syntax errors. It just doesn't work. Unless, of course, those guys here had an epiphany on to how to solve this problem.<p>And of course, there's the obvious huge caveat of having other live cursors dancing around ruining your concentration. I like it when editing documents, but I feel like there's just no point in doing it on a source file.
why do these guys keep rebranding the same thing over and over and pretending it to be some new launch?<p>Once I can understand, twice it just feels disingenuous.<p>This is like third time they changed the name. Hyperdev to Gomix to Glitch.
It's a neat idea, but requiring one of Facebook login (ugh, no) or GitHub login with rather generous permissions (hmm, nope) is sort of a deal-breaker.
"Create any app you can imagine, by remixing working code into exactly what you need."<p>Well that just sounds like nonsense.<p>"I was worried that I had no good ideas, but thankfully I was able to remix facebook with a little uber and snapchat and boom now I'm a millionaire."
Glitch (formerly GoMix (formerly HyperDev))... Is it for professional devs? Is it a prototyping / learning toy? It's a cloud code editor and also a PaaS [but without git] and also a project discovery platform? Is all of that really still free? Well <i>how</i> free and for how long? The offering is so generous that it's hard to understand / believe it will last.<p>It might have been the point of this post but I still don't understand who this tool is for and what software in a dev setup it will replace.
I know Anil's a smart dude. My feedback comes from a good place.<p>> <i>The friendly community where you’ll build the app of your dreams.</i><p>Thought #1: The one word for what Glitch <i>is</i> is "community"? A friendly community might be (aspirationally, at least) a nice part of Glitch, but the more I think about it the less I'm sure I know what that means. My feeling is that lots of people who might find this interesting will bolt when presented with the apparent requirement to adopt yet another community.<p>Thought #2: I've had the pleasure/torture of hearing people's app dreams, and people will not be building the apps of their dreams with Glitch--and that's <i>fiiine</i>. What Glitch <i>might</i> be (assuming I kinda understand it) is A Place to Make Duct Tape for Internet Stuff, which seems like a great thing.<p>> <i>It’s even easier to use Glitch than it is to describe it…</i><p>That is problematic. You invented an amazing thing (presumably) and you're not sure how to sell it to people who don't already get it, which is an unenviable scenario.<p>I'd really like to see how the Glitch folks would fill out the classic "For (your target) who wants/needs (reason to buy your product/service), the (your product or service) is a (category) that provides (your key benefit). Unlike (your main competitor), the (your product/service) (your key differentiator)."
I think watching a cursor and text dance across the screen that isn't me typing would be hyper distracting for my self.<p>"{..} and less like the chore of reviewing pull requests."<p>I would much rather review completed chunks of work than watch another developer trial and error through a days worth of work while I'm also typing away.<p>Don't get me wrong - it is very neat idea - just definitely not for me.