Discussion: Unnamed more powerful offering

Glitch announced that they’re preparing a new offering. Let’s start a thread to discuss it!

Here’s their announcement below, from an email:

Hey there,

You’ve been using Glitch for a little while, and hopefully you’ve been enjoying it. There’s something special happening on Glitch soon, and we wanted to let you know about it.

We believe everyone should be able to create the web—whether that’s a personal website or a full-stack app—using Glitch. We’re about to get a whole lot closer to that goal.

If you’ve been creating with Glitch, you probably noticed that your project has a few limitations: a limited amount of memory and disk space, rate limits, and sleep mode after 5 minutes if no one is visiting (React rebuilds, hello).

There are pretty good reasons for those limitations: More memory, “always on,” and no rate limits for every one of the five million projects created on Glitch? Our server costs would go through the roof. We wouldn’t be able to provide the Glitch experience you love for as many people as we do.

But we know people want more . So we’re introducing something big: A way to build more powerful apps without those limitations.

Based on how you’ve been using Glitch so far, we thought you might be interested in getting an early look.

Sign up to be one of the first creators to know when we launch a more powerful Glitch.

SIGN UP

We’ve always prided ourselves on being a bright little corner of the internet. That’s only possible because creators like you have decided to build a home here.

As we take the next step, we want you there with us. Let’s make your apps more powerful.

Your Friends at Glitch

P.S. — Sign up early enough and you might even get the chance to beta test our new product before we release it publicly.

And here’s a tweet on the subject: https://twitter.com/glitch/status/1230550563059904513

What an exciting milestone. I personally am more interested in finding creative uses for the free offering though. There are other hosting providers on my list to check out when I want to make the transition to paid services. I hope Glitch won’t reduce the free offering :crossed_fingers:!

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Seems like Glitch are heading in the right direction with this. The incentive that you can just pay a little amount of money (I don’t know prices yet) to magically get an extra couple of GB of disk space of RAM can help boost their business. The thought of “hey, I need another gig of ram, oh look just $0.99 for 1gig extra of ram” makes Glitch seem scaleable - a thing most people expect from hosting providers. The fact that you can scale your project when you want will be great for users! No more paying for things you don’t need!

Although, there’s one downside of this. The web interface… If I was a paying customer I would be expecting and advanced dashboard panel, where it shows me stats of my project - all in one place and a professional look (sorry glitch but I hate the “childish” theme of your site).

I’m really excited for what Glitch has to offer to customers in the future and I entered my email as soon as I saw the tweet regarding all of this!

glitch staff members - pls add the option to pay with Apple Pay and stuff, it means lazy me doesn’t have to type in card details :slight_smile:

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Sweet! Let’s what they have to offer. And @charliea21, I think the Glitch design is so Glitch-y!

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Ive just opted to be a beta tester! Nice work glitch!

hopefully it stays free however!

There’s an update on this! Beta applicants are sent a sequence of surveys, starting with one introduced by an email:

Thanks again for signing up for more information around beta testing our new features. We’ve been overwhelmed (in a good way!) by the number of people who said they were interested.

The next step: A quick interest survey so we can learn more about you and how you use Glitch.

As part of the beta test, each participant will be asked to fill out three surveys that will take about 5-10 minutes each. If that’s not you, that’s okay!

If you’d still like to have early access to test out the beta, would you please take a minute to fill out our quick interest survey? (link to the first survey)

Though we’d love to open the beta up to everyone who expressed interest, we have a limited number of spots available and cannot guarantee early access to everyone who responds. We’ll keep you in the loop for future testing and user research opportunities.

Your Friends at Glitch

Although be warned, right off the bat they ask for your real name:

  1. What’s your full name? (First + Last)
  2. What’s the best email to reach you at?
  3. Will you answer four short questions about your experience with code?
  4. Would you be willing to fill out a few surveys during the beta period?
  5. Would you be willing to talk with Glitch about your experience with the beta?

I didn’t intend to use Glitch as a real-name community, so I probably won’t make it past this point in the program :worried:

I’ve received the email too. And well I couldn’t resist filling in the form. :o

I’m hoping to see the new things Glitch offers in the future.

I checked my email every day for 5 days then all of a sudden today I realized I was checking the wrong email, so I filled out the form today(found it buried among a hundred glitch support emails).

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Huh. Apparently it’s code name is Pufferfish. It looks to be some sort of paid feature. It’ll probably end up being called Glitch Pro.

EDIT: It appears there are a handful of features available. You’ll be able to boost your memory, disk space, possibly the CPU, remove rate limiting entirely, and prevent your project from falling asleep.

It’s not like Glitch will be sharing your information with everyone.

How the heck did you find out?

glitch can’t share our data with third party companies without our consent or they are breaking laws

@RA80533 That’s really cool that you were able to find out about that!

could it be inside information?

I really hope they don’t change the free plan, I’m really happy with it

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So far, it doesn’t look like they will. I wouldn’t worry,

I wonder if we will be able to host Discourse forums on a paid plan… it would be cool!

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You’d need at least 1GB RAM and a bit of storage so you can install the latest Ruby binaries. I believe you may need sudo permissions too. Oh and don’t forget removing the 4k requests per hour as you’ll easily hit that!

If Glitch does roll out paid features to upgrade RAM, storage, etc. Then I don’t see why you can’t run Discourse on Glitch.

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I’ve always wondered if you could run a “federated” social media site on Glitch, and after this update you probably can.

you could make a social media site on glitch with basic frameworks like jquery or database services like mongoDB

True. The request limit is the big issue.

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Any guesses on the release date?

Not really sure, but it should be soon since beta signups are open.

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The suspense builds…
I’ve already blocked out a bit of my pay for this!

still waiting…

Someday we all hope.

begins to wait for eternity for email…

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Anyone have a time estimate?

I can’t even get into my email

Admin changed password and I can’t contact them courtesy of COVID-19

I would say that with this virus, it will be very delayed. Honestly now I don’t really expect the staff to do much and I hope they are doing ok.

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Woah, what email service do you use?

I can imagine we’re getting closer because there’s this new icon at the top about it. That says “coming soon”!

i messaged tasha and got told everyone at glitch is okay, they are following the stuff set out by the WHO

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outlook 365, they reset all the passwords but i got in now

Thats good to hear!
(more text for discourse)

yep, but my school is going into an official lockdown tomorrow so work has to be done from home

Schools for me have been closed since last friday.

schools in the UK are closing because it was only decided yesterday

Schools here in `merica are soon going to be starting online learning. That should be very interesting.

about 10% of my school has access because it messed up with every student trying to access it

wait…

glitch is down…

They are working on it.
status.glitch.com

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i made this discord clone in mongoDB, i saw the chat database and it took me a few minutes to realise they were speaking in Spanish

image

the Glitch

:man_facepalming: :

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lol :laughing:

(more more text to impress discourse)

Guys, be careful there is an issue that is affecting THE GLITCH

THE GLITCH…

WE ARE DOOMED…

has to make sense so i added this line

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Just copy a few ZWJs from ‍ Zero Width Joiner Emoji

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It works!
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You should read up more on privacy laws, you’re breaking some :stuck_out_tongue:

Lol @random is our furture Google CEO.

I just realized that realtime stuff like chat servers are gonna use a lot of XHR which will count towards our request limit really fast unless we switch to socketio or something like that.

Also, fun fact: I think the new offering will be called Glitch Pro, because if you inspect the coming soon button you will see it has a class or id called glitchpro

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:smile:

You should read up more on privacy laws

i might do! but it says in blue and green that we see your messages and can read em.

glitchPro, i like the sound of that!

They switched around some project controls. I hope this is another sign. :crossed_fingers:

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And also, @jenn said something about new stuff coming up…

Perhaps all of these random downtimes could be due to them adding new stuff. :thinking:

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another link showed up in the latest mailing:

Psst… Good things come to those who read footers: Be the first to know about what Glitch is doing next and get early access.

that takes you to the ‘coming soon’ page…

i got an email on remote working, im going to play duck hunt with my face

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And then take a breath.

It seems Glitch have updated their Terms & Conditions. The update mentions payment related stuff. This essentially confirms paid plans will be a thing.

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It is here! From the latest email: https://glitch.com/pricing

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YAY! I’m so excited to help support Glitch.

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yup! happy to be a member and see glitch on its journey!

Hm, it won’t let me change my email even though I have never used the email it forced me to use…

I still don’t understand what they mean by this:
We said you d be the first to know - khalby786 gmail com - Gmail

What exactly changes when you switch from the $8 offering to the $10 offering?

you get to cancel sooner at the 10/mo level. otherwise you’re locked in for a full year

@khalby786 One is a monthly plan and the other is a yearly plan. The yearly plan comes out to $8/mo. if you pay for it all at once whereas you would normally pay $10/mo. if you subscribe to the monthly plan.

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Hey yeah, what’s are “projects” and what are “apps”?

I think they are the same thing.