Glich has announced that in response to market dynamics and widespread misconduct problems, app hosting and user profiles on July 8, which has increased operating costs.
The news comes directly from the CEO of the platform, Anil Dash, who accepted the role of the platform in the developer ecosystem.
“So with such good options to easily create and run the app, the leigacy architecture of the glitter is not providing anything specificly valuable for the developer ecosystem at this point,” Announcement From dash.
The CEO notes that the attention will be on serving our developer community where we can be the most valuable. “
Project hosting and user profiles will close on July 8, but users will have access to the dashboard by the end of the year, allowing them to download the code for projects.
Dash says that a new feature will allow the redirect to be installed for the subdoman of a project so that the URL will still work.
These redirects are guaranteed to remain functional by the end of at least 2026, giving users a lot of time to accommodate changes and set new workflows.
In addition, all paid subscriptions (eg Glich Pro) will be honored by July 8 and those who have paid time will receive refunds. The new mess procedure is no longer accepted.
Launched in 2017, Glich.com has been an important platform in the web development community, allowing users to create web applications, remix and share directly from their browsers.
By 2019, mess Over 2.5 million app hostedIts popularity is explained by user -friendly interfaces and real -time cooperation features that made it ideal for use in prototypes and educational settings.
The main reason Glich has decided to stop hosting the app, which is the rising cost of hosting millions of apps, and to deal with increasing cases of misuse from bad actors.
The platform also admits that the developer has developed landscape, with modern services such as fly.IOs, Dano, Netalify, and Jethb Pages provide more advanced and scalable solutions, which increases rapidly compared to glutch’s architecture.
Instead of trying to compete with these new platforms, the glitch opposes detection of new ways to serve its community, such as highlighting projects hosted.
For now, the focus of the stage remains to help users deal with changes and help in transition to smoothly elsewhere. For this purpose, the mess is working on preparing a wide guide, but until it is not available, users are recommended to travel. Community platform For advice.