It seems like the CDN companies are suddenly(1) becoming App Platforms in a big way. “Computing at the edge” is going from expensive, meme AWS re:Invent buzzword to fun and easy — with no AWS in sight. I hope this deal works out well for the Glitch employees!<p>1: I know it’s been years in the making, but I’m still slinging Docker containers in a single AWS region.
What an amazing track record from Joel Spolsky: Launched Fog Creek, then StackOverflow, Trello and now Glitch (which I think is the successor of Fog Creek)
Glitch was the last iteration of FogCreek, right? There were some really fantastic companies to come out of FogCreek: StackOverflow and Trello being the big ones. It's a little bittersweet to see it get acquired.
I really hope this works out well for the Glitch userbase. I'm always nudging people towards it because I don't know anything else that makes it as easy to get started with a flexible web project without having to learn The Boring Stuff.
I've been using Glitch since it was HyperDev and love it. My main use cases are: 1) learning various frameworks without installing cruft on my dev laptop and 2) small personal or side projects where I need a little hosting but not full AWS/Azure account. It really scratches an itch. Zero friction to just set up and run. I even set up a simple CI so that I develop on a "dev project", but then can push the code to a demo or production project.
Great product.
I was using Glitch before they renamed it to Glitch - does anyone remember that name? I can't remember and can't find it on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glitch_(company)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glitch_(company)</a>
I dearly love Glitch for k-12 education use cases. My only consistent complaint after all these years is the slow speed, especially "waking up" apps. Hoping this acquisition will result in continued investment to speed up the platform!
This is a very cool combo I'm excited to use. The glitch in-browser IDE combined with fastly's wasm-hosting-at-the-edge means you can whip up a quick front end without ever having to fight with a terminal. Dramatically lower barrier to entry and reduction of scut-work.