2. Product Definition and Positioning

Glitchpad is a zero-cost, local-first application for opening, reading, inspecting, and selectively editing files. The document owns the viewport. The application supplies only the compact controls needed to interact with the active file and avoids turning file viewing into project, workspace, account, or service management.

The primary jobs are reading rendered Markdown, viewing and editing Mermaid diagrams, editing Markdown and plain text in place, viewing syntax-highlighted source without IDE behavior, opening several related files in compact tabs, checking file and embedded metadata without leaving the application, and viewing images, PDFs, DOCX documents, and ODT documents as their capability gates mature.

Public descriptions MUST follow the released capability matrix. “Everything viewer” is a product direction, not permission to claim unsupported formats.