At around 11:00 EST on July 8th, 2025, Glitch.com, the hosting website, closed it's doors, ending the hosting of millions of apps. Glitch gave everyone a free .glitch.me domain for any website created on there platform. I had many of these. However, now, if you go to any .glitch.me domain, you are met with this menu:
This was sad for me, and for a lot of people. Finding alternatives is hard.
So, that's it. That's the end for millions of apps.
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This sucks. The best version of what glitch could have been is amazing.
Exactly. There was something missing always, maybe that led to what we have today for it. I never was an active user but I got used to the fact that it’s always around, this warm and fuzzy place... Sad to see the part of the best creative Internet epoch going away.
Sad indeed :(
This is really heartbreaking! 💔 Glitch was such a beginner-friendly platform. I had built my first few web apps there and it was so easy to just remix and deploy. The community was also very supportive.
Now I'm wondering what's the best alternative? I've heard about Vercel and Netlify but they seem bit complicated for beginners. Railway and Render also there but not sure which one is closest to Glitch's simplicity.
Stackblitz is the closest thing now, probably
testify! it hit me hard as well, seemed like a really needed resource in the age of vibe coding.
it hit me so hard, i decided to spin my own - even lower friction but not so full featured - check it out but be gentle it's beta (more like epsilon minus) instantsite.dev
be gentle, it's my first
Sounds like Google back in the days revoking APIs :(
Bring back Geocities
Somehow this seemed to come and go with the optimism of web 2.0. twas the best of times, worst of times
Man, I spent way too many nights messing with my Glitch apps. Gonna miss it