Based in New York City, Fog Creek was founded in 2000 as a consulting company by Joel Spolsky and Michael Pryor.

As the consulting market started to dry up due to the collapse of the Dot-com bubble, Fog Creek moved to a product-based business.

[8] Glitch staff announced intentions to unionize with the Communications Workers of America in early 2020 as part of the Campaign to Organize Digital Employees.

The backend of the system ran as a desktop application written on Windows in Visual Basic 6.0 with all data stored in a Microsoft Jet database.

Fog Creek's founder, Joel Spolsky, wanted to give his interns the experience of taking a project through its entire lifecycle from inception, to mature released product.

[18] Fog Creek Copilot uses a heavily modified version of TightVNC, a variant of Virtual Network Computing (VNC), as its core protocol.

[22] In 2008, Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky created Stack Overflow, a question-and-answer Web site for computer programming questions, which they described as an alternative to the programmer forum Experts-Exchange.

[25][26] Based on the type of tags assigned to questions, the top ten most discussed topics on the site are: JavaScript, Java, Python, C#, PHP, Android, HTML, jQuery, C++, and CSS.

[32] In 2011, Fog Creek released Trello, a collaborative project management hosted web application that operated under a freemium business model.

[37] Glitch is an online IDE for JavaScript and Node.js and includes instant hosting, automated deployment and live help from community members.

[38] IDE features include live editing, hosting, sharing, automatic source versioning,[39] and Git integration.

[40] Glitch focuses on being a friendly, accessible community; since its launch over a million people have used the site to make web applications.