With Gomix, you don’t have to manage the confusing or complex parts of creating an app or bot. You start with a working app, hosted on the latest cloud infrastructure. If you’re an advanced developer, you can just start with your favorite web frameworks (it’s regular Node.js, but without any of the hassle.). From there, you just remix these working examples into the app of your dreams.

To remix an app, you simply edit the code live in your browser. As soon as you make a change, it’s pushed live to your app, instantly. And while you’re making changes, you can have multiple people editing at the same time, even on the same file — it’s like Google Docs for editing code, which makes it great for teaching or pair programming.

Perhaps the best thing about Gomix is what we’ve left out. There’s no provisioning of servers, no version control to learn, and no lock-in: every app on Gomix runs on completely standard infrastructure that you can use on any cloud hosting environment.

And (re-)introducing Fog Creek!

How do we know Gomix will meet the needs of developers? Well, we’re Fog Creek Software. Our cofounder Joel (“On Software” is not his literal middle name) Spolsky is one of the most respected and influential voices in programming, as his Joel on Software blog helped define a lot of the best practices that have since become industry standards. In 2007, we teamed up with Jeff Atwood to make Stack Overflow, the indispensable tool that answers every developer’s questions, and in 2011 we made Trello, the essential planning tool that uses cards to provide a clear visual layout of any project.

Since then, Trello and Stack Overflow have spun out into their own independent companies, but our company still has that same DNA that lets us help ordinary people make extraordinary things on the Internet. And basically, Fog Creek has had an impact on developer culture that rivals companies 1000 times our size.