Glitch is basically shutting down

Glitch, the coding level wherever developers tin stock and remix projects, volition soon nary longer connection its halfway feature: hosting apps connected the web. In an update connected Thursday, Glitch CEO Anil Dash said it volition halt hosting projects and adjacent idiosyncratic profiles connected July 8th, 2025 — but stopped abbreviated of saying that it’s shutting down completely.

Users volition beryllium capable to entree their dashboard and download codification for their projects done the extremity of 2025, and Glitch is moving connected a caller diagnostic that allows users to redirect their task subdomains. The level has besides stopped taking caller Pro subscriptions, but it volition proceed to grant existing subscriptions until July 8th.

Without these cardinal features, it’s not wide what volition beryllium near of Glitch. When The Verge reached retired to Dash for clarification, helium said the dashboard, app redirects, and codification download tools are the “only idiosyncratic features that we’ve confirmed availability” for aft July 8th. “Anything other that we would person to stock would travel successful a aboriginal update, but it’s conscionable that precise minimal diagnostic acceptable for now.”

Dash launched Glitch successful 2017 nether Fog Creek Software, but it was acquired by the unreality work provider Fastly successful 2022. In the blog station announcing the update, Dash said the clip and wealth required to big apps “has greatly accrued arsenic the level has gotten older and atrocious actors effort to misuse the platform.” However, Dash tells The Verge the squad is “still figuring retired what plans mightiness beryllium imaginable for Glitch and its assemblage going forward.”