So, you all have heard me talk about @Glitch a lot — I wanted to share a bit about why we're excited to build tools for every creator. It's about community. glitch.com
At one level, there's of course a pretty simple idea: Being able to easily make real apps is valuable, and being able to easily _run_ those apps is even more valuable. So we're doing exactly that, for everyone. linkedin.com/pulse/ready-ru…
But when we talk about community, it starts with individual creators building good ideas that help real people. Take, for example, @BigMeanInternet and his collaborators creating a tool to help you organize childcare coops — built in a weekend on Glitch.
Community is also thoughtful & inspiring companies like @adafruit, which is hugely innovative with tech like this Glitch app that lets you control bluetooth with the web: learn.adafruit.om/bluefruit-dash… But they're *also* stepping up to create masks & resources while NYC is in crisis.
We see fun, playful things like @CapitolRecords having an entire event & hackathon that's run by a Glitch app capitolroyale.glitch.me — and countless new virtual hackathons happening on Glitch so we can be together online if we can't be there in person.
Yes, we solve problems with code at work, but we do it in our neighborhoods, in our *lives*, too. That's true around the world, like a map for tracking COVID cases in Myanmar mmcovid.glitch.me or @blake_hunsicker tracking global travel restrictions …navirus-travel-restrictions.glitch.me
Glitch's community members are doing everything from helping farmers glitch.com/glimmer/post/j… to @jessevondoom's work creating *an entire free subscription platform so you can directly support creators* at a moment when it's so essential to do so. glitch.com/glimmer/post/t…
Even though it's still early, people like you have already built over *5 million* apps on Glitch. They're showing that a human web, with apps that don't do creepy things with your data & don't enable abuse, can have a huge positive impact. Come join us. glitch.com
