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Glitch is basically shutting down

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Glitch will stop hosting projects and close user profiles on July 8th, 2025 .

CEO Anil Dash said the time and money required to host apps “has greatly increased as the platform has gotten older and bad actors try to misuse the platform.

Dash launched Glitch in 2017 under Fog Creek Software , but it was acquired by the cloud service provider Fastly in 2022 .

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48

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40

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11

Article tone

semi-formal

Language

English

Language complexity

45

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not offensive

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Time-value

short-lived

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