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 :)
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!
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
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!
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...)
The val.town team is creating the perfect tool for me and I am always excited to hear their fast paced additions to the platform.
Running scripts has never been easier and this pushed me to start setup small projects I wouldn't have otherwise.
Good luck from BK!
I've been using Val Town for about a month now and it's been great. The fact that you can deploy a script globally with no setup is a superpower. I'm even powering a tiny experimental feature in one of my apps with Val Town and it has worked beautifully.
On top of that, the team is super active in the community and always seem eager to jump to your aid if you're having any issues at all with the service.
Would totally recommend as an alternative to Lambda or even self-hosting serverless functions depending on the type of project you're running.
Love how Val Town enables me to instantly start coding without having to spend too much time setting up the environment! Looking forward to Val Town's coming update of in runtime V3!
