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#failure case studies
2 sourced case studies tagged #failure. Every number links inline to the page it came from; self-reported figures are labelled as such.
- Mighty: why a $35/month cloud browser shut down after 3.5 years
- Glitch: 1.8 million developers, a Fastly acquisition, and the end of app hosting
Consumer apps3 sources · 2 min
Mighty: why a $35/month cloud browser shut down after 3.5 years
Suhail Doshi's Mighty streamed Chrome from powerful servers to make the web faster. Faster laptop chips, churn and endless edge cases ended it in 2022, and the team pivoted to AI image tools.
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Developer tools3 sources · 2 min
Glitch: 1.8 million developers, a Fastly acquisition, and the end of app hosting
Glitch made it easy to build and remix small web apps in the browser. It raised $30M, shrank, sold to Fastly in 2022, and shut down project hosting in July 2025 as newer platforms caught up.
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