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I've used glitch before... its like plunkr.co , or codesandbox.io Glitch (the software) has been around for like 3-4 years... but the marketing is some of the
by Kagerjay 8y ago
I've used glitch before... its like plunkr.co , or codesandbox.io
Glitch (the software) has been around for like 3-4 years... but the marketing is some of the worst I've ever seen especially for a well established company like Fogcreek (now glitch, inc, how is that different from glitch software. Makes it even more confusing now?)
The UX is just... no. One of the worst examples of UX possible in my opinion. I say this after trying thousands of tools. Contrasting colors everywhere, going on that site is like a deer seeing headlights for the first time. Except those headlights are constantly strobing different colors. Constantly. Enough to give it a seizure, if it stares too long
The logo isn't pleasant on the eyes. It seems very retro, but not really. What does fish have to do with the word "glitch"? Why two fishies? The first word when I hear "glitch" is the movie Matrix, which fits in the theme... since its programming.
The plain white background contrasted by the bright antonym colors everywhere are VERY distracting.
The 1,000,000 drafts created... are mostly driven by online course users following along. Possibly, many K-12 school courses. I have used the "help" section a few times and I haven't gotten many helpful responses from it. I had used glitch in one of the MOOC's I took earlier with watchandcode's practical javascript. I had used glitch's API through freecodecamp as well, but all I needed was the endpoint anyhow.
I honestly question what Glitch is trying to do. What are they trying to do? Have they lost their touch? I say this in all seriousness, I really don't know. I'm sure the backend programming is topnotch, frontend...not really.
Where is money going to come from with glitch...? Schools? Ads? Who is the userbase? Is it newcoming young age developers? Why would I want to use this tool over all the more beautiful tools out there like codesandbox and codepen? What's the appeal? Why the logo choice? What is the overall theme? Why the strong contrasting colors on white? What have they done in the last 3 to 4 years?
The only real benefit I see for a company using glitch is having a place to host a REST API.
I even ran a siteprofiler on glitch.. I am even more confused now. The top keyword was "news, google, blog, community, search" 1MM monthly visits, compare this to codepen which is "programming, design, webdevelopment,google,blog" , 24MM monthly visits.
What I did see is glitch is used alot for A-frame, and VR tutorials / hosting. And some starter react-projects as well for courses
- detaro 8y agoAll those alternatives you mention appear to be for client-side code only? I see people using Glitch for running small services quite a bit. Agreed with your questions about monetization.
- Kagerjay 8y agoI must not know about what glitch's small services are for. They do have paid plans for monetization. I would be really curious to know what companies are using them for what service and why