Val Town

Name: Val Town
Rating: 4.93 (14 reviews)

If GitHub Gists could run and AWS Lambda were fun.

4.9•14 reviews•

324 followers

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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Launch tags:Productivity•API•Developer Tools

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Render Sandboxes: a computer for every agentIsolated compute, persistent state and a real filesystem

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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.

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3yr ago

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...)

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3yr ago

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@pomdtr is one of the most active folks on Val Town. He's made dozens of useful vals: https://www.val.town/u/pomdtr A Val Town CLI: https://github.com/pomdtr/vt Chrome Extension: https://github.com/pomdtr/val-to... Raycast Extension: https://github.com/pomdtr/val-to... And always gives the best feedback ❤️

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3yr ago

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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.

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3yr ago

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!

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3yr ago

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!

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3yr ago

Klap

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

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3yr ago

Promomix

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

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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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