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Anil Dash

Boosted Apps on Glitch - Glitch’s new membership powers up your full-stack web apps

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Glitch is the fastest and easiest way to create and collaborate online, going from idea to code at lightning speed, right from your browser. And now, coders can unlock powerful features that make it easy to keep full-power web apps running smoothly.

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Anil Dash
Maker
At Glitch, we've always tried to make it super easy to instantly create web apps — we want to make sure you can go straight from your idea to a live, full-stack app. And now, we're taking away all the complexity of *running* those apps. There's none of the complexity of regular cloud hosting. You can just join our new paid membership for ten bucks a month, and we give your apps boosted storage, memory and performance so they're always running smoothly. We're really excited to launch our first paid service for Glitch, and also to give developers on the platform the top features they've been asking for. The community's already built over *five million* apps on Glitch, and we can't wait to see what everyone creates now!
Anil Dash
Maker
@emmanuel_kaska Love Webflow — Vlad and the whole team are doing amazing work. I hope we do get to connect our platforms some way in the future.
Matt Mazzeo
Congrats on the launch! Just upgraded. 👊
Anil Dash
Maker
@mazzeo So glad to have you in the community, thanks for joining. :)
Jim Ray
I love Glitch and I’m excited I can finally give you my money
Anil Dash
Maker
@jimray thanks so much! Really appreciate what you and so many others at Slack have done on the platform.
Kanad Gupta
This is great news, congrats! Upgraded last week. I'd love if there was a way to "boost" other users whose work you want to support (i.e. give them "boost credits" to upgrade their own apps) — a similar concept to how people can give/receive "thanks" to use custom domains on their Glitch apps!
Alexa Scordato
Maker
@kanad Love this suggestion! It's something that the team was just talking about the other week.
Alexa Scordato
Maker
@kanad Also, thanks for the support!
Benjamin Wheeler
Excited to check it out! I'm also curious about Glitch's support for SQLite... seems like that opens up a lot of possibilities!
Ezra Mechaber
Maker
@benjamin_wheeler Sure does! This, from @simonw is one of my favorite examples in the data journalism space: https://glitch.com/~datasette. It turns CSV files into a browseable interface and JSON API. If you create something fun with SQLite, let us know!
Benjamin Wheeler
@simonw @ezra_mechaber Thanks! Is there a guide to getting started with SQLite on Glitch that you'd recommend?
Anil Dash
Maker
@benjamin_wheeler Here's a detailed writeup of the recent upgrades we made to the official SQLite starter on Glitch: https://dev.to/glitch/hello-to-t...
Anil Dash
Maker
@benjamin_wheeler u know what 2 do!
John Mcelhone
We've been using Glitch for quite a while now at CropSafe. By far one of the valuable tools we have in our stack. Every week we make hundreds of tiny iterations to our code when experimenting features with our customers, so the instant deployment Glitch has built-in has been perfect for our case, helping us test and experiment very quickly. Looking forward to utilising the Boosted App capabilities with CropSafe!
Anil Dash
Maker
@john_mcelhone1 John, thanks so much for sharing your story — CropSafe is exactly the kind of project that inspires our whole team to create Glitch. We're so excited to watch your app take off!
Quintin Radford
Well done!
Anil Dash
Maker
@quintinradford Thanks! The whole team (and community!) have put their hearts into making something great.
Aivant Goyal
I love Glitch! Curious, do you get 2gb of ram + 499mb disk space for each of your boosted projects? How easy it to switch which projects are boosted? I’m looking forward to trying it out 😄
Ezra Mechaber
Maker
@aivant_goyal Correct! That is for each project. And I'm biased, but I think it's very easy - you get a special collection and boosting an app is as easy as adding or removing it to your collection: https://glitch.com/help/boosted-...
Noah
Congrats Yasi!
Yasi Razvan
Maker
@noah4 Hi! Thank you for stopping by and checking us out friend! Love 2 b on this team ^__^
David Miranda
If I boost my app and someone forks it, they don't get boosted too, right? I was running into issues with building assets for my project (maxed out the processor) and needed to boost it for it to work. I'd love if it could just work for everyone by default.
Anil Dash
Maker
@panphora That's a cool idea, but right now, you're right — you don't "inherit" the boost when you remix an app. We're figuring out what the right way to do that should be, and taking time to hear what users expect and what would be easiest. If you want to share your ideal of how it *could* work, drop us a line (or hop in our support forum), and we'll definitely be listening.