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The domain is recycled from a former game site. Its shut down announcement might be worth reading along with the HN discussion:

https://web.archive.org/web/20121117004246/http://www.glitch...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4786514

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You can still see bits of the Glitch game on Slack's 404 pages: https://slack.com/wherever

It's a good story that they were happy to give up the name and domain to Fog Creek for this.

Also: I really like HyperDev/GoMix/Glitch. Making this tooling available for people seems like the next juddering step forward. There's easy comparisons to things like HyperCard and Yahoo! Pipes, and the intentions seem the same here. Looking forward to the future of this.

Glitch is GoMix from the looks of it. Go to GoMix.com. I happened to be there just 3 days ago. Now it redirects to Glitch.com lol.

The "Hyperdev/Gomix/Glitch" part the parent comment actually means "Hyperdev = Gomix = Glitch", they are renaming of the same product.

Initial development was as Hyperdev. Gomix was the chosen name at the time of the beta launch. Glitch is the current name.

That explains why some of the site is blocked as "Category:Games" by the web filter at my work. Fortunately our web filter doesn't block the whole domain, just some of the pages.

https://www.glitchthegame.com/

Wow, so when he says "We have developed some unique messaging technology with applications outside of the gaming world and a smaller core team will be working to develop new products." he's talking about Slack..?

> Wow, so when he says [...]

Wrong thread? Not clear what you're referring to?

He's referring to a comment [0] in the above-linked HN thread [1].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4786931

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4786514

Yep. Stewart Butterfield & co. failed to develop a web-based online game, it reused parts of the game framework to create Flickr. Then, years later, he tried to create a new game, Glitch, and during development they built Slack as an internal tool. Glitch failed, Slack was spun out. He keeps trying to make games, but the universe wants him to create Internet startups instead. Third time the charm, perhaps.

The game glitch, gave birth to Slack.

That explains one of those recent rattling sounds in my head.

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