If GitHub Gists could run
And AWS Lambda was fun
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It's been a while since I've seen something as neat at val.town It's serverless functions meets myspace? You have to try it. Just start coding - nothing gets in your way. variables persist, great for iOT, cron jobs, npm support...
Wes Bos
Syntax.fm host, on TwitterA super power of val.town is that the relative terseness of a val gives excellent API usage examples that are easy to grok. Want to learn atproto? There's a val for that. With a large enough corpus, it'll be the go to place for API examples.
Justin Bennett
Engineer @ Oxide, DevtoolsFM host, on TwitterThis is 🔥
pomdtr
on DiscordI'm mind-blown by http://val.town it's one of those products I can't believe didn't exist before
0xferruccio
on Twitteryeah! working on replacing the backend of a personal project with a simple val related solution ive been waiting for something like valtown for building personal projects without getting bogged down in setting up toolchains and deploying and stuff
omgwtfbrblolttyl
on DiscordA practical middle option for not going too enterprisey (Lambda) or too consumer (zapier).
Ashik Ahmed
on Twitter@astrodotbuild 🤝 @ValDotTown... Really excited about Val's potential for persisted interaction on static sites!
Nate Moore
Astro co-creator on Twitter‘this is awesome’ ‘it's so cool’ ‘it's so neat’ - what @wesbos thinks about @ValDotTown from our episode with @stevekrouse
Syntax
on TwitterWhat an absolute gem of a product! 💎 Amazing job @stevekrouse. I have wanted something like this ( @zapier for Javascript programmers - ish) for a LONG time.
Carl Von Blixen
on TwitterI first setup a cloudflare worker email broker, but for some reason the worker was taking so long that my webhook was timing out, then I found val.town, it's such an amazing tool
infinitemap
on Discordval.town is bringing code alive, one () => {} at a time. 🔥
Kyle Geske
on TwitterVal town is putting the fun back into coding. You can focus on the fun parts of just making magic happen without all the admin
Jack Bridger
on Product HuntVal Town is a social website to write and run code.
Vals are small JavaScript or TypeScript snippets of code, written in the browser and run on our servers. Create scheduled functions, email yourself, and persist small pieces of data — all from the browser. Explore Val Town’s features…