Val Town

Name: Val Town
Rating: 4.93 (14 reviews)

If GitHub Gists could run and AWS Lambda were fun.

4.9•14 reviews•

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If GitHub Gists could run and AWS Lambda were fun.

4.9•14 reviews•

324 followers

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Val Town is a social website to write and deploy TypeScript. Build APIs and schedule functions from your browser.

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Hey PH, I'm Steve, a founder of Val Town 👋 We're really excited to share Val Town with y'all! We believe programming should be fun, and that it's for everyone. We hope to spread the joy of programming, one val at a time! What is Val Town?

What do people make with Val Town? Receive webhooks from Github, Stripe, Clerk, Supabase, anywhere, prototype backends, collect data from forms, poll social media, track prices, air quality, make reservations on Resy, create Discord bots, Slack bots, Telegram bots, email bots, Mastadon bots, Twitter bots, Buesky bots, or even pull Val Town into Google Sheets or Zapier, wherever and whenever you need code running in the cloud. What does it cost? We have a generous free plan, and a $10 per month plan with extra compute and storage Who is it for? If you're learning to code, we hope Val Town can be a place for you too. I used to teach coding to children, and I built this tool for beginners and experienced programmers alike. If you find anything confusing, let us know! If you've tried out Val Town, please share a val you made or any feedback you have! One of our favorite things is shipping new features the same day they're asked for - if we can!

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3yr ago

Playing with val.town I was able to make a bluesky bot (with a cron job that fetches an rss and posts any new message via bsky’s API), and a server-side rendered map, with Observable Plot, of the USGS live earthquake data. Just a few lines of code, zero deployment headaches. Brilliant!

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3yr ago

Val Town

Maker

Thanks @recifs! It's been awesome to see you make such cool vals! Links to the ones above: * https://www.val.town/v/fil.earth... * https://www.val.town/v/fil.becke... * https://www.val.town/v/fil.cron_...

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3yr ago

Survey Loop

Val town is putting the fun back into coding. You can focus on the fun parts of just making magic happen without all the admin

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3yr ago

val town is absolutely the next level of writing JavaScript! The val reference reminds me of the genius idea of HTML's hyperlink when I first opened a web page.

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3yr ago

Val Town

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@ije wow, such high praise! We're such a fan of your esh.sh project, it's used in hundreds of vals!

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3yr ago

Freeze

Val Town is quite amazing for quickly prototyping and launching new ideas. Thank you to the team for making such a sweet product!

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3yr ago

Val Town

Maker

@maaslalaniii thanks! Really love the vals you've made: * https://www.val.town/v/maas.impo... * https://www.val.town/v/maas.worm... * https://www.val.town/v/maas.forw...

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3yr ago

VHX.tv

I can't speak highly enough of Valtown. Fun, easy to use, but the composability and advanced features like the key/value stores make it extremely powerful. plus Steve & the team are super responsive & open to feedback

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3yr ago

Relephant

Huge fan of the work Steve and Tom are doing with Val Town. It feels like they really found the perfect abstraction so that you can focus on writing code that's flexible and works how you expect in so many different ways without worrying about infrastructure at all. Huge congrats on the launch and can't wait to see where it goes next!

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3yr ago

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Reviewers mostly praise Val Town for making small scripts and prototypes fast to build and run, with almost no setup or deployment hassle. Users say it is easy to start coding immediately, useful for quick experiments, app features, iOS shortcuts, bots, cron jobs, and simple data tools, and helped them ship projects they might not have attempted otherwise. The team is also described as highly responsive and active in helping users. The main caveat is narrow: one reviewer says advanced users may miss more advanced features.

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