Glitch by Fog Creek

by sinak • 9 years ago

195 39 9 years ago

brudgers2• 9 years ago

The domain is recycled from a former game site. Its shut down announcement might be worth reading along with the HN discussion:

https://web.archive.org/web/20121117004246/http://www.glitch...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4786514

Mao_Zedang• 9 years ago

The game glitch, gave birth to Slack.

brudgers2• 9 years ago

That explains one of those recent rattling sounds in my head.

sarcas• 9 years ago

You can still see bits of the Glitch game on Slack's 404 pages: https://slack.com/wherever

It's a good story that they were happy to give up the name and domain to Fog Creek for this.

Also: I really like HyperDev/GoMix/Glitch. Making this tooling available for people seems like the next juddering step forward. There's easy comparisons to things like HyperCard and Yahoo! Pipes, and the intentions seem the same here. Looking forward to the future of this.

ultimatejs• 9 years ago

Glitch is GoMix from the looks of it. Go to GoMix.com. I happened to be there just 3 days ago. Now it redirects to Glitch.com lol.

phaedrus• 9 years ago

That explains why some of the site is blocked as "Category:Games" by the web filter at my work. Fortunately our web filter doesn't block the whole domain, just some of the pages.

michaelmior• 9 years ago

https://www.glitchthegame.com/

nicc• 9 years ago

Wow, so when he says "We have developed some unique messaging technology with applications outside of the gaming world and a smaller core team will be working to develop new products." he's talking about Slack..?

allover• 9 years ago

Wow, so when he says [...]

Wrong thread? Not clear what you're referring to?

atombender• 9 years ago

Yep. Stewart Butterfield & co. failed to develop a web-based online game, it reused parts of the game framework to create Flickr. Then, years later, he tried to create a new game, Glitch, and during development they built Slack as an internal tool. Glitch failed, Slack was spun out. He keeps trying to make games, but the universe wants him to create Internet startups instead. Third time the charm, perhaps.

swanson• 9 years ago

Is this the same product previously named "Gomix" that Anil Dash was building at Fog Creek?

wubbfindel• 9 years ago

https://medium.com/glitch/welcome-to-glitch-fe161d0fc39b#.ef...

"Why did we change the name (again)? Well, we heard from some members of our community that the old name evokes a hurtful slur in some Russian communities, and given our deep commitment to building an inclusive service, that didn’t sit right with us, even though people understand we didn’t mean to be hurtful."

jerf2• 9 years ago

I would be intrigued to see a database of, say, the top 10 or 25 languages in the world, and all their potentially offensive phrases. It would be useful to help avoid this sort of thing, and probably have some interesting things to say about linguistics and psychology.

tkwj• 9 years ago

Relevant Twitter conversation https://twitter.com/deadprogrammer/status/806150295290052608

cjCamel• 9 years ago

Used to be called Hyperdev, then Gomix.

lloydde2• 9 years ago

Yes, same product, though my understanding is it's a team effort.

lloydde2• 9 years ago

Some discussion yesterday from blog post announcing the change in product name https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13860603

tekknolagi• 9 years ago

This does not load for me. Just shows white. I'm on the latest Android.

soneca2• 9 years ago

I am using Glitch as a learning tool and it is great! It is great to see in real time the consequences of what I am typing. The faster the feedback the faster you learn. I know if something broke or work as I intended immediatelly.

I am creating my portfolio there btw: https://rodrigo-pontes.glitch.me

startupdiscuss2• 9 years ago

I can already tell this is more "heavy weight" than JS fiddle but also similar.

Is there a reason I can't make something private to view? Is that a paid feature that will come later?

Sometimes I just want to play around and don't want people to know how silly my code is and then hold it against me as a person.

etamponi• 9 years ago

Yes, you can make your code Private through the advanced options menu :) This option is only visible if you sign in though.

startupdiscuss2• 9 years ago

I noticed that the private option only prevents people from editing. It doesn't prevent people from viewing it. Is that right?

brianzelip• 9 years ago

Weird timing - the latest JSJ podcast[0], released this morning, is titled "Gomix with Daniel X Moore". In it Daniel hints at some coming changes, but I didn't think it was as fundamental as a brand change.

[0]https://devchat.tv/js-jabber/gomix-with-daniel-x-moore

resure• 9 years ago

Looks like auth via GitHub requires access to private repositories :-(

pfooti• 9 years ago

Yup, which means I won't be logging in right away. It looks neat, but I don't think I want to leak private info just because something is shiny.

GarethX2• 9 years ago

Yeah, we're looking into a better way to allow folks to export to private repos (which is something people asked for) while not having to ask all users for everything. Stay tuned.

You don't need an account to try it out, only to keep your projects around for more than a few days and Facebook login is another option to consider.

legohead• 9 years ago

Also requests access to your Organizations. Not sure my employer would appreciate that!

bastawhiz• 9 years ago

Did they purchase this domain from the Slack/Tiny Speck folks?

tommoor• 9 years ago

Glitch is a great name, gotta wonder how much they paid Slack for it

corysama• 9 years ago

The video in https://glitch.com/about/ does a good job of quickly explaining what this is.

bshimmin• 9 years ago

How do they find the time...

That said, from a quick perusal of the landing page, I have precious little idea what this is for, and equally little inclination to watch a two minute introductory video.

tluyben2• 9 years ago

Instant gratification modern stack web (frontend/backend) programming. Ok for playing around, but for anything serious it doesn't seem to add much imho. Maybe I am missing something. If you could install it on your own company servers it would be better.

kowdermeister• 9 years ago

We used gomix (now glitch) successfully in our coding bootcamp. Students really loved building mock and real backends with it.

niedzielski• 9 years ago

Probably coincidental but the fish iconography reminded me immediately of David Siegel's "Creating Killer Web Sites" "follow the fish" navigation:

http://www.killersites.com/killerSites/core.html

Glitch by Fog Creek

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