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...)
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 :)
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
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!
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!
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. I also envision val.town being the go-to place whenever I search google for example code.
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!
