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What do you like best about Glitch?

I like how it feels to code online on the glitch is if I am coding offline on my computer and it shows me all the files on the left and I can also Store my images and other assets in their folder so it is is very good in compared to other competitors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Glitch?

There are many things that could have been better on top of my mind their autocorrect is not working properly and suggestion of the words are sambodhit useless. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Glitch solving and how is that benefiting you?

I used this is a sandbox playground for my code to run in the environment where a show output with the codes at the time you are coding so you can see where you are going wrong and what you are doing in real time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What is Glitch?

Glitch is a collaborative programming environment that lives in your browser and deploys code as you type. Use Glitch to build anything from a static webpage to full-stack Node apps.

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Glitch has from useful tools that solve problems at work, to cutting-edge VR experiences, smart bots, and apps that help advance important causes.


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Mihir M.
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4.5 out of 5
"Honest Glitch review"
The ease of viewing your development directly on a side pane without any need for extensions is the best feature. Glitch supports almost all kinds ...
Ishaan M.
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5.0 out of 5
"Lightweight and simple, excellent for prototyping as the code is instantly deployed."
Minimal setup and configuration required. I can get started with an Express NodeJS API in less than a minute, and the best part is whatever I code...
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"super simple setup, very little maintenance"
you can set up as many "projects" as you want. that really takes out the hassle of reviewing which ones you can delete to make room for new ones, a...
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Mihir M.
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What do you like best about Glitch?

The ease of viewing your development directly on a side pane without any need for extensions is the best feature. Glitch supports almost all kinds of web developments and a super tool for collaborators and independent developers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Glitch?

Glitch has very less controllability for version control as compared to git. Creating folders/ directories is a bit tedious. Glitch provides less support in terms of fast smart coding features like autocompletion and code suggestions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Glitch solving and how is that benefiting you?

Glitch is definitely a super tool. Hosting websites and web apps for free, easy collaboration tools for developers, download the whole project, changes view side pane, terminal support, support for major development frameworks like JS, NodeJs, React, etc. A tool to sort out multiple dependencies. You can create free CDNs for asset delivery too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Glitch?

The thing that I like most about Glitch is how there's a community portal to look at other people's templates and build new ones. The Glitch community is great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Glitch?

The thing that I like least about Glitch is how each project takes long to load due to distributed hosting, you'll need to wait a couple seconds before you can access your project. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Glitch solving and how is that benefiting you?

Glitch is an excellent platform for creating unique developer stacks and demonstrating different developer-focused features in a cloud-based platform as a service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Glitch?

you can set up as many "projects" as you want. that really takes out the hassle of reviewing which ones you can delete to make room for new ones, and then, necessarily, updating things that had referred to deleted projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Glitch?

the runtime environment has some old things. it's running Ubuntu 16.04, so you can't upgrade Node.js past v16.x. luckily we don't have a very picky project, and it works fine on the versions of Node.js that Glitch supports. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Glitch solving and how is that benefiting you?

we use Glitch to let our programmers set up simple unofficial web apps, such as public code samples. it gives us an environment that can set up npm dependencies and build tools and run a web server. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tiago R.
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What do you like best about Glitch?

Glitch.com is an awesome IDE & hosting platform, way better than one of its main competitors, Repl.it. It has a very supportive community, multiple unofficial addons, and much more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Glitch?

The only problem of glitch is that non-static projects go to "sleep" after some time. That means that you have to wait for it to "wake up", and sometimes that can take up to a minute. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Glitch solving and how is that benefiting you?

Glitch is an awesome IDE and hosting, and it's solving one of the main issues I had: Where should I host my projects, to then show them to the world? I also used Repl.it, but Glitch is way better Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ashwin A.
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What do you like best about Glitch?

I like to use this platform a lot as it has a lot of features which help a lot to save your time and money. We can code online in multiple languages, not just individually but in a team as well. Its UI is modern and very attractive. While coding on this platform it doesn't feel like you are coming online as it doesn't lag. It provides a lot of starter templates for different languages which helps a lot. Most of the other online coding platforms lack modern frameworks like react.js and node.js but glitch covers all these new tools in their platform. It also provides hosting for personal projects. I got a lot of help from this feature as earlier I had a lot of projects and I hosted them all here on glich. We can also add custom domains to it. I have also used it to make my portfolio here as it is easy to share our profile link with any recruiter and they can view all our projects here. And those projects can be from any tech stack it can be hosted here. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Glitch?

The main problem with glitch is that it put your project to sleep if you don't access it for a long time and it takes a lot of time to wake it up again. so if you have to show your projects somewhere on a priority basis then you might get a bad experience. The wake-up time should be less rest everything is great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Glitch:

If you want to make a portfolio where you can host all your projects then glitch can be your first preference. it is an amazing tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Glitch solving and how is that benefiting you?

The major problem that glitch has solved for me is the project hosting. There might be other free hosting tools available in the market like Netlify and Heroku but they were not much great in hosting node and python projects secondly we need to give credit card details on their platform to add custom domains but here we can add our custom domains for free. It also helped a lot in coding collaboratively with our team. It provides a good amount of cloud storage and we can also directly link it with the Github repositories. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ishaan M.
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What do you like best about Glitch?

Minimal setup and configuration required. I can get started with an Express NodeJS API in less than a minute, and the best part is whatever I code is instantly deployed and available for use without any hassle.

Also, the UI is very lightweight and fast. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Glitch?

There is no code completion or similar IDE features available. Even many commonly used keyboard mappings do not work on Glitch.

There should be more ready-to-use templates, for example, a NestJS boilerplate would be awesome. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Glitch solving and how is that benefiting you?

* Quickly testing NodeJS libraries and modules without having to set up a new NodeJS project on my local machine.

* Building and deploying REST APIs for personal projects and hackathon submissons.

* Establishing proof of concepts of ad-hoc ideas Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vipul G.
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What do you like best about Glitch?

> I like the concept that we can directly deploy our site from our GitHub repository. We don't have to upload our codebase again and again.

> It provides free hosting for personal projects on their platform, If you are a student it will be really helpful for you as you can host your web projects here and can add the link to your portfolio websites.

> We can also make our own personal portfolio here and can share that link to the recruiter or where ever you have to show your projects.

> Best thing is it doesn't just host a static website but can also host dynamic ones.

> We can also make our team here and can work together.

> And obviously its colorful theme makes its UI really cool and attractive.

> We can also add custom domains to our glitch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Glitch?

> The thing I don't like here is it puts your glitch to sleep if no one uses it for 1 day or longer, I know they do it to save memory and computation power so that everyone's glitches run smoothly.

> But it takes a long to wake it up when you run after a long time.

> This actually makes a bad impact on the person who reviews our project, I just want this process should be faster. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Glitch:

> Use it to host your next node or react app it is really helpful.

> Use it to display your projects to the world by just sharing the link to your glitch profile. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Glitch solving and how is that benefiting you?

> I worked on a node project and it was really hard to find free hosting so that I could display the project to the client and can work based upon his review. I didn't find many options in the market and glitch was the best among those I found.

> After then I use it for daily purposes instead of a code pen.

> Now I also use it to host the static sites so that I can add them to my portfolios as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mihir M.
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What do you like best about Glitch?

Easy deployment, Direct exporting option to Github, Live hosting and live update for web development, support across multiple platforms like React, Native web dev, Node, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Glitch?

Not much git support, less supportive version control, and new updates ruined the UI and other abilities. Glitch folder system is bad that does not allow creation of folders directly instead requires knowledge about CLI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Glitch solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are using glitches for multiple purposes

- Web development

- demo design and development

- AR/VR/XR web app deployment

- Machine learning experimentation

- App development Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Glitch?

Glitch UI is user-friendly it provides templates for many modern frameworks/libraries like react.js node, elementary and SQLite. With glitch we have both an online code editor to develop our website as well as to host it with a single click, glitch takes care of the domain and everything. We can also collaborate with the team in glitch, plus glitch has the option to set a custom domain as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Glitch?

In the free version of glitch, the website goes to sleep when it's not used giving an impression of the website being slow when opened after some time. Glitch also lacks an autocompletion option in its editor. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Glitch:

Glitch can be used to quickly host code and to collaborate with the team on a large project. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Glitch solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use glitch as a hosting platform for my react-based projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Callum S.
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What do you like best about Glitch?

Glitch is a simplistic and easy service that allows me to quickly deploy small projects like my portfolio that doesn't require much maintenance and is easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Glitch?

Glitchs pricing is slightly damning for small personal projects, however it makes sense if you wish to deploy a medium-large scaled application for your company using Glitch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Glitch solving and how is that benefiting you?

Glitch is easy to use, modular and low maintenance meaning its great for things like a personal API or your personal portfolio. It seems professional without branding and fast to your potential employers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.