Val Town - If GitHub Gists could run & AWS Lambda were fun

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!

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

I've been following Val Town for a long time and it's amazing to see the product grow so fast and get so good. I recommend you to check it out if you have any task you would like to automate and don't want to fall into the https://xkcd.com/1319/ trap. Don't have anything in mind? go and play anyway, you will have some fun and learn something new :)

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!

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

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

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.

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!

Congrats Steven & team on the launch!

Absolutely love Val Town -- have been using it to power a few iOS shortcuts for about 4 months now. The founders are incredibly responsive and clearly have a passion for making a fantastic product. Congrats on the launch, team!

A personal favourite, highly recommended. Val.town is really open for experimentations, and is just a blast to play with. I'm also super enthusiastic about the future of the platform, this is just the start (see https://blog.val.town/blog/val-t...)

Val Town has been a great tool for me as an amateur/hobbyist Javascript programmer. I've only done front end web stuff up to this point, but Val Town allowed me to create useful backend tools without having to setup my own server or figure out serverless functions. I was able to quickly made a small but handy Discord bot for a gaming server I help run. It's awesome to be able to do this all through the web. It's not much, but here's a link to the API endpoint I I built for the bot: https://www.val.town/v/rayman.ex... I was able to instantly fork another user's example to get started. Val Town is an amazing platform for building things quickly and getting the satisfaction that comes with that.

Val Town is a great way to share code, create scheduled jobs, and learn more about programming. I have really enjoyed my time writing code on it.

Val.town is now my go-to place when I need to make little web utilities and it keeps getting better and easier to use. I've wanted something like this for many years and I'm so glad it's here. In the future, I would love to see vals that function more like apps that can be published and used by others but that I can open up and tweak if needed. This would be really helpful for me, but also people that don't know how to program yet. I also envision val.town being the go-to place whenever I search google for example code.

I love this product! It's the perfect balance of playful and productive. Excited to see what Steve and the team add to it next!

Val Town brings a unique concept to life! How do users explore and interact within this virtual town?

Val Town's design is visually appealing. Can you tell us more about the customization options?

I'm curious about Val Town's plans for expansion. Any exciting updates in the pipeline?

Been following val town for a while, this looks like the ideal way to prototype something on the internet!