(my new job at @val.town is editing the blog) we launched a cli, called vt! you can run it in watch mode and it'll auto-deploy every time you change a file in your project, and you can use claude code, codex, or whatever the hottest new ai tool of the day is blog.val.town/vt-cli

this is tom on the company account retweeting tom on the personal account, devrel maxing, read the post, it's good

this summer @val.town had an intern, and he was truly kickass: read about how @404wolf.bsky.social put the @deno.land LSP server in a cloudflare container, made it speak websockets, wired it up to codemirror, and made the whole thing scale: blog.val.town/vtlsp

building a code editor in the browser is hard huge kudos to @404wolf.bsky.social for making ours so good this work is open-source, so you too can have amazing autocomplete, type information, go-to-definition, in your codemirror editor

🔴 LIVE TODAY: Realtime API deep dive w/ Justin Uberti (Head of Realtime AI at OpenAI, WebRTC creator) ⏰ 4pm ET / 1pm PT 📍 Livestream link to come! We'll walk through the new API and share code samples so you can start building with it right away.

Release notes: - Mic access now works in the HTTP preview iframe (We did this for @juberti's OpenAI Realtime Demo) - Flag users or vals for moderation - 🤫 Easter egg: every val.run val also lives at val.howright now, on our next gen infra!

🎉 Announcing Val Town for Teams Companies like PostHog, Kilo Code, Stainless, Scalar are using Val Town to automate technical GTM / growth workflows. Reach out or share this if you, or someone you know is interested 💖 HAPPY BRING YOUR VAL TOWN TO WORK DAY!! (This was such a long time coming)

📝 New blog post: Holiday musing: fixing stuff on prod I love Val.town for building little experiments and getting them hosted quicky. The fact that you can instantly have a URL to run code is incredible. I use... Read more: https://posthero.us/post/holiday-musing-fixing-stuff-on-prod

I built an email-to-blog blogging system, much like Posterous from back in the day. It supports publishing to RSS, ActivityPub, BlueSky and pings via WebSub. posthero.us If you want your own you can fork it here: www.val.town/x/paulkinlan...

all my apps gone! from @glitch.com that is. have finally migrated them all (the good ones anyway) - bluesky bots → @val.town - express/fastify websites → netlify functions & htmx - also archived some express websites to static html (spidered using wget) that didn’t need server code any more

here's a "random line from Ghostbusters" page cheersderek--9108146d0d48480a9e4ed4e93e5cf857.web.val.run testing out SASS and other front-end things on @val.town (thanks for the help @stevekrouse.com)

it's me I'm Juicy Bear

I made a @val.town because the IRS doesn't want to send me a notification about 501c3 approval. It checks every couple of hours and sends an email when the org finally shows up in search. www.val.town/x/dpip/nonPr...

living rn

today i moved @countingsheep.bsky.social’s brain and soul from @glitch.com to @val.town

Huge shout out to friends @val.town - @stevekrouse.com @charmaine.bsky.social Love chatting with you folks! The cap is gonna be perfect for working outside this summer, and the stickers are going straight onto my next notebook! The chocolate may not have lasted long after this photo was taken…😃

The @vercel.com MCP adapter works with @val.town HTTP triggers (for streamable HTTP at least) meaning you can write and deploy MCP servers with TypeScript instantly, right in your browser!

have migrated the #nowplaying bots from @glitch.com to @val.town... next job is the the film script bots

i highly recommend checking out val town for your server side needs when migrating glitch apps. i already have been using it for a server to my static glitch sites

I had three Glitch sandpit websites for creative coding. I’m spinning up a blog just now and it’s fairly easy. Val town seems like a new home for a glitch users. 😻

vals have multiple files! and folders! you can clone them locally! and use cursor! or vim! or townie! which itself is a val! which means it can edit itself! code search & our blog are also now vals! everything's a val! you get a val! you get a val! everyone gets a val!

📰 Val Town Newsletter 25! So. Many. Product. Announcements. 🗂️ Multi-file Vals 🦾 New Townie ＞ Local development 🤝 Val Town for Teams 🔎 New Search 🏢 Val Town Hall 🌟 Community Vals Read it here 👉 blog.val.town/newsletter-25

Val Town has always been inspired by @glitch.com - they paved the way for zero-config instantly-edited websites. It's a bummer that what brought so many people joy and was a great community for diverse communities is coming to an end So: where does Val Town fit into this? blog.val.town/glitch 💜🐟

I mention them in the post, but val.town is my go to for small projects that I would have put on Glitch in the past. They wrote up this sweet lil post outlining some of the differences, and I especially love the honesty in the "Val Town is also a startup" section 😍 blog.val.town/glitch

Great chatting with @stevekrouse.com and @charmaine.bsky.social about @val.town I even managed to coin a phrase too! “If a picture paints 1,000 words; @val.town paints 1,000,000” Quick prototype toy apps that can be used and iterated on quickly allowing faster discovery.

New tutorial video: How to make a Harry Potter themed Todo App with Townie ✅ basic user auth ✅ backend persistence Featuring my new favorite phrase – "human brain" – four times! www.youtube.com/watch?v=6koO...

Val Town is one of my favorite communities on the web, feels like a spiritual descendent of @glitch.com. And @macwright.com using it to build a modern version of ThinkUp, the app @ginatrapani.org and I worked on a decade ago? I’m so moved! macwright.com/2025/05/16/t...

remember thinkup by @anildash.com + @ginatrapani.org? it was so cool, plugged into your twitter account and sent you updates when people updated their bios and more well, twitter sucks, bluesky has an api, time is a flat circle so i brought part of it back from the dead www.val.town/x/tmcw/blues...

i added user-provided boards last night using the new townie - gordwame.val.run/play/gordwame - gordwame.val.run/play/trythis...

What if Lovable, bolt, v0 were built in themselves? The new Townie is 100% open-source and is itself built on Val Town. (It can edit itself!) It's not for one-shot demos, but for building complex full-stack projects Code, prompt, branch, pull request Already always deployed

Continuing to have a lot of fun with Val town. Recommend highly if you want to get back to hacking stuff together the way the web was meant to be

Yeah, I have a lot of problems with their approach over the last few years, but coming from Glitch it’s really hard to make the economics of giving free compute work. I’ve been most impressed w www.val.town in this space recently, really able to keep the surface area of the product small

Hoping this can serve as a starting template for anyone trying to figure out how to make little ATProto apps. It's on @val.town so you can deploy your own version by just pressing "remix" here: www.val.town/x/wilhelm/Pr...

💕 Some new features in our community showcase featuring: - www.autoblocks.ai - @dreww.gg's steam forum scanner - @geoffreylitt.com's stevens - @michaelschultz.com's eink frame - brad's val town x @notion.com demo

Vals are getting upgraded! We are unifying vals and projects into a single primitive: the val – a collaborative folder of deployed code – that includes all the best features of vals & projects 👉 blog.val.town/upgrading

i love this roll-your-own-saas app vibe sometimes it's simpler to own a simple stack you 100% understand than to onboard to a fully-featured app

@val.town is legit so fun to make dumb little apps and tools and cronjobs with! its like if cloudflare workers was more friendly

suchhh a fantastic project, so cool to that @val.town can power the backend for it

Wondering all the ways you can use LLMs in your Val Town workflow? Check out our latest docs: docs.val.town/quickstarts/...

great blog, great post, great val

Using Val Town with LLMs? 🤖 - You can now turn any page on docs.val.town into markdown to copy into LLMs (inspired by the great Stripe docs) - docs.val.town/llms.txt and docs.val.town/llms-full.txt are also now available!

We just added support for image uploading, as a part of @val.town OpenTownie prompts! Here's a demo of it recreating the Disneyland website as a project ❤️‍🔥 (OpenTownie built the image uploading feature too, but I didn't screen record it in time 😢)

on the @val.town blog, some more research into this gnarly problem of being an 'api first' company without totally sacrificing the blissful development velocity of rpc-style frameworks: blog.val.town/blog/api-con...

💻 New Open Source Project: @val.town MCP Server I built a bridge that connects AI assistants (Claude and others) to ValTown through the Model Context Protocol. github.com/PrashamTrive... 1/2

OK, made some progress on a forkable #atproto starter site hosted on @val.town! You can log in with OAuth and load some content from your account. Next up is lexicons! www.val.town/v/wilhelm/AT...

yay you can now add your bluesky profile to your val town profile 🦋

val.town is a delightfully simple tool for writing hosted serverless functions, which makes it a perfect fit for handing Replicate webhooks. We wrote a little guide to standing up a simple API on Val Town that receives webhook events from Replicate and sends you email notifications. 🧵...

math is trippyyyyy! 🤯 taylor hodge's exponential sum plot generator, inspired by @johndcook.bsky.social