Today we announced that we’ll be sunsetting project hosting on July 8, 2025. (Here is the full announcement on the blog). This is of course, a huge change for the community, so I want to create a space for you all to share your thoughts, concerns, or ask questions.
A few important notes:
Your Glitch dashboard will be available through the end of 2025 with code downloads for all of your projects
In the coming days, your dashboard will get a new feature to set up redirects for your project subdomains, so all your links will keep working. Make sure your redirects are set up before December 31, 2025. (We’ll make sure they stay active at least through the end of 2026.)
We’re preparing a guide to help you export your project, create git repos, and migrate your projects to new platforms that will be available soon. In the meantime, we’re creating a separate thread today to help answer any migration questions or tips, etc.
We’ll turn off new Glitch Pro subscriptions effective immediately. All current Glitch Pro subscriptions will be honored until July 8, and we’ll issue refunds for unused time. We’ll send a separate email to Glitch Pro subscribers with additional details on your membership by June 2, 2025.
On a personal note, I’m truly grateful for each and every one of you who joined us in creating the type of web we want to see in the world. As curator for Glitch content the past few years, I’ve had a front row seat to your curiosity, creativity, humor, passion, frustration, and helpfulness. The work you’ve created has delighted, challenged, and changed me and the way I think about the web and the people who inspire it. Thank you for being here and sharing yourself with Glitch.
We’ve got an important update for the Glitch community today: We’ll be ending web hosting for your apps on Glitch. In this message, we’ll explain what that means for you and for the Glitch community.
On July 8, 2025 Glitch project hosting and user profiles will be shut down. Your Glitch dashboard will remain available as usual through the end of 2025, with access to download all of your code for your projects, as well as a new feature to set up redirects for your project subdomains so your URLs keep working.
We’ve got an important update for the Glitch community today: We’ll be ending web hosting for your apps on Glitch. In this message, we’ll explain what that means for you and for the Glitch community.
On July 8, 2025 Glitch project hosting and user profiles will be shut down. Your Glitch dashboard will remain available as usual through the end of 2025, with access to download all of your code for your projects, as well as a new feature to set up redirects for your project subdomains so your URLs keep working.
There are a couple of reasons we’re making this decision right now. It takes a lot of time and money to run millions of apps, and that has greatly increased as the platform has gotten older and bad actors try to misuse the platform. But while that is true, there’s also another motivation that made it clear that it’s time for a bigger change.
In the last few years, we’ve seen a lot of amazing new platforms that have raised the bar on how we create and run apps, just as Glitch first did almost a decade ago. Some of the teams behind these new platforms have even told us they were inspired by Glitch. We love what we built with our teammates with Fastly Compute and tools like Fastly Fiddle, of course, but there’s also the broader ecosystem, with platforms like Fly.io, Deno, GitHub Pages, Val Town, Netlify, Digital Ocean, and so many more that are still inspiring us to create. Last year, we built the ability for paid Glitch members to share their own apps that they built elsewhere on their Glitch profiles, and we’ll be exploring how we might be able to revisit those kinds of ideas with the Glitch community going forward. So with so many good options for easily making and running apps, Glitch’s legacy architecture hasn’t been providing something uniquely valuable to the developer ecosystem at this point, and we want to focus our efforts on serving our developer community where we can be most valuable.
Right now, our number one job is to take care of everyone in the Glitch community during this big change. Here’s what we’re doing first:
Your Glitch dashboard will be available through the end of 2025 with code downloads for all of your projects
In the coming days, your dashboard will get a new feature to set up redirects for your project subdomains, so all your links will keep working. Make sure your redirects are set up before December 31, 2025. (We’ll make sure they stay active at least through the end of 2026.)
We’re working on preparing a guide to help you export your project, create git repos, and migrate your projects to new platforms. And we expect to update the guide as our friends at other platforms make it easy to move your projects over to their sites. Until then, please join us in the Community Forum to ask questions and get tips on migrating.
We’ll turn off new Glitch Pro subscriptions effective immediately. All current Glitch Pro subscriptions will be honored until July 8, and we’ll issue refunds for unused time. We’ll send a separate email to Glitch Pro subscribers with additional details on your membership by June 2, 2025.
This is obviously a big change for Glitch, and for the Glitch community. I know that personally, it’s a bittersweet transition, and any time we ask people to make an unexpected change with their apps, it can cause stress or frustration. I’m sorry for the time and effort that it takes to migrate or back up your apps if you weren’t planning on it, but I am also grateful for all the kind and supportive words from the community who’ve seen the challenges we’ve had in maintaining a large community of millions of users running tens of millions of apps.
We’ll keep updating you on progress towards these dates, and as always, you can join us in the community forum to share your thoughts or feedback and we’ll be watching closely. You can also personally reach out to me at anil@glitch.com.
I don’t understand. Why are you saying you’re “sunsetting project hosting”? Glitch IS project hosting (plus a couple of features that only make sense with project hosting). So you’re sunsetting Glitch. Whay can’t you say that? I had to read an email, then read a blogpost, then come here to finally figure out that it’s not me who didn’t understand what you mean and where you’re going with this. It’s you deliberatly being vague. What the hell?
In kinder words, I agree with @valerypopoff. I appreciate everything Glitch has done and appreciate the community that has formed around it, but this announcement is way too vague. The title makes it seem as though Glitch will continue on in some way, but with no details, while the announcement itself reads as though Glitch is shutting down entirely, because what is Glitch if not app hosting and user profiles? This announcement really needs to be clarified and updated.
Just wanted to say that… I discovered Glitch yesterday.
After a full night messing around, I FINALLY managed to build something I’d been trying to figure out for months… (I’m not a dev, just a guy with vague ideas and a lot of help from chatgpt)
AND THEN TODAY YOU ANNOUNCE YOU’RE SHUTTING IT DOWN?
I’ve been using Glitch for over five years now to teach design students how to create code for the web. Compared to Adobe, Glitch was an absolute dream. Does anyone have any recommendations for a service that compares to what Glitch offers? The only good thing I can say is that I’m glad I have all summer to figure this out.
I really liked Glitch and I’ve been using it all the way back to its days as Thimble where I started to learn Web Dev and have seen it grown into the huge community it is.
Please don’t shut down Glitch, though. If possible, maybe you could all try to build it into something better. But please don’t make it permanent. Even if it’s just something temporary while you all sort whatever needs to be sort out that’s fine, but Glitch is such an important stepping stone in anyone learning how to code or wanting to make their own websites.
I’m sure there’s a lot of great memories everyone has here, and I’m sure maybe you have some too.
At least let’s all try and see if we could keep it going.
And if it’s money you all need maybe try reaching out to one of the guys at the other places you know. Maybe they might be of some help I’m not sure
But I’m sure even a Kickstarter to making a Glitch 2.0 or something might get some traction too because we all love this platform and have great memories which is as analogous it can get to Scratch. It’s like if you suddenly heard one day that Scratch would shut down. It’s not a good feeling at all.
At least make a backup of what we all have in case you all change your mind or something… Just don’t wipe us out completely
all my projects from 2019 in glitch, i don’t have backup or any,
i want to download some projects only and check it before let meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
that all what i ask some projects worked in it for years in glitch and now beacuse suspended i’m not able to download it
#Hugops to the whole team. Thank you for making Glitch amazing for these last many years; it has been a really wholesome and positive thing in my life.
I want to recognise that there’s no real villain here; Glitch was (as I understand it) running out of runway before the Fastly acquisition, and the shutdown is a sad fact of no-one having the investment to make Glitch into a profitable and best-in-field solution. Nice job trying!
The short cutoff for app hosting stings a little, but oh well.
I have a question about CDN. What’s the fate of assets and links stored on the Glitch/Fastly CDN?
Nothing lasts forever and while this is unfortunate news, now is the time be grateful for all that the Glitch.com platform has made possible. The community and the platform were peerless in their awesomeness.
Glitch.com was a breath of fresh air, and it was a complete game changer for mentoring, education, and sharing code with my students and peers.
We love what we built with our teammates with Fastly Compute and tools like Fastly Fiddle, of course, but there’s also the broader ecosystem, with platforms like 
