Very invested in this idea. Bullish on products like @val.town that could handle the security aspect of that (maybe you want to have a button that hits an internal API, or refreshes data).

Pretty sure this is why @val.town is going to win out. Version control, modularity, team projects.

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did i forget the button link in our email? yes did we get the best responses? also yes 🥰

🔴 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)

A helpful graph made by @stevekrouse.com on the inverse relationship between vibes and understanding in AI assisted code. Put a few thoughts down here: maggieappleton.com/2025-08-vibe... Original article: blog.val.town/vibe-code

Unsure the size of your demos that you need; but if you like serverless @val.town and Townie is an interesting take on this. Their tagline is/was “what if gists could run like lambdas?”

Vibe code is legacy code blog.val.town/vibe-code

📝 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

man when they got sold i felt so burnt as i really got into the templating at the time. this is great to see and saved me talking to an ai for ages with an astro blog setup so that's useful, thank you. i'll be certainly using through val town. yay.

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...

Seems to work decently! If you want to play with this yourself just remix my @val.town val and add the env variables for your own val & account www.val.town/x/tijs/atpro... Should run fine on free. But if you want more syncs then every 15 mins just upgrade and change the sync interval...

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)

great card for the first daily reading from the new bot on Val Town!

phew! just got my last bot ported to Val Town from Glitch right as it shuts down forever this last one had to be completely re-architected but I got the core functionality working. time to not think about this for at least a week :P gnight from Juicy Bear 🐻

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

alright! the Bluesky bot implementation of Tarot Bot @tarotbot.bsky.social has been ported to @val.town gonna monitor for a couple days, but we're in a good position to keep up the daily readings after Glitch shuts down

twowords.val.run Is It *Two* Words?, my latest janky little game, offers at most minutes of entertainment

finally hit character count! and @val.town handily sends an email of the error response! i think i am going to have it reset the sheep counter but also have it count the resets (using 🐺 perhaps?)

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...

The PDS server is also open source github.com/dropanchorap... and it runs comfortably on a free @val.town instance right now. Which honestly.. I think is pretty neat #typescript #atproto

this was a fun streaming session. i used their blob storage to save the sheep count, and a cron trigger to post every 15 minutes (that’s the min time for a free account). you can view and remix the code to make your own bot here: www.val.town/x/jennschiff...

living rn

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…😃

reworked the random Letterboxd watchlist picker (running on @val.town and @netlify.com now) and it's looking much nicer letterboxd-watchlist-random.netlify.app

Ok: 1) vibe coding is pretty fun & ridiculous - you make unmaintainable slop super fast 2) @val.town is super fun for making quick & dirty DIY backends 3) @rideact.bsky.social desperately needs to efficiently cache their GTFS/RT data kuanbutts.com/actransit/

Finally used Val.town for something real. Something close to the good old PHP experience. Maybe I need a PHP to WASM on Deno hack to make it a reality.

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

Moved my first Glitch app to Val Town today. I set up a redirect from the old Glitch to the new Val and everything.

80 new val town templates just dropped www.val.town/explore/use-...

I also started one! nbbaier-ama.val.run

this week's friday project at val town: a system for AMAs! tmcw-ama.val.run ask a question, or fork the val and make your own: www.val.town/x/tmcw/ama/c...

📰 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

learned about Val Town today and it is pretty cool concept:

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. 😻

did I just cry through a whole call with @keith.is? 🙂‍↕️ (it started with glitch, and then it was the whole internet…) 🫶

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

Wrote about the end of Glitch - the platform, the union, the dreams, and the technical debt that killed it all. Tried to keep it honest but not too spicy. Been gone a year now but felt like the community deserved some context 💞

I’ll have a lot more to say about this in the next few days, but it’s really the end of an era (for me) blog.glitch.com/post/changes...

This one was, obviously, bittersweet to write: we’re shutting down app hosting on Glitch. This post covers how everybody can export your apps & download your code. I didn’t get into where the Glitch community goes next, because honestly we’re still figuring it out, but it’s still the end of an era.

thank you @glitch.com @anildash.com @keith.is @jennschiffer.com! what an epic run. we're grateful for everything you've done for builders (especially students - i was one of them) over the years 💜

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.

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...

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

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