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ændra. @aendra.com · 27/09/2025

Omg that would be cool as heck, love Val.town

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Matt TK Taylor @tk.gg · 16/09/2025

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).

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Alex McRoberts @alex.mcroberts.me · 16/09/2025

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

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Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 10/09/2025

did we forget the link to the post or were you playing three-dimensional chess increasing engagement by prompting replies to your email, learn this new marketing hack

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charmaine @charmaine.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

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

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val.town @val.town · 05/09/2025

🔴 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.

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val.town @val.town · 02/09/2025

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!

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charmaine @charmaine.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

🎉 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)

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Maggie Appleton @maggieappleton.com · 02/08/2025

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

A line chart with vibe on the Y axis and understanding on the X axis with a downwards diagonal line

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Alex McRoberts @alex.mcroberts.me · 02/08/2025

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?”

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Ship code-first automation, internal tools, and demos in minutes.

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humbleha.us @humbleha.us · 25/07/2025

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.

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Paul Kinlan @paul.kinlan.me · 14/07/2025

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...

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Email Blog

A blog powered by email publishing

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Tijs Teulings 🦑 @tijs.org · 19/07/2025

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...

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tijs/atproto-to-fediverse

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cheersderek @cheersderek.com · 09/07/2025

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)

random GHOSTBUSTERS (1984) quote
Forget it, Venkman!
get the whole script one line at a time by following @ghostbusters1984.bsky.social‬ on bluesky

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Nolan Filter @calamitynolan.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

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

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Nolan Filter @calamitynolan.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

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 🐻

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cheersderek @cheersderek.com · 06/07/2025

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

Tom watching Meredith deleting all the evidence in Disclosure (1994)

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Nolan Filter @calamitynolan.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

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

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Alex Wein @alexwein.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

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

phone-sized screenshot. the top is a header that says "Is It Two Words? a word game by Alex Wein". There is a rectangle below with "2/25" and "0:11", beneath that is another similar sized rectangle that says: "Last Word: stressed ✅ desserts ✅ -2s". The box below is larger and says rumel in front of a half-light-blue half-light-purple background. Below that is another rectangle: "Next Word: reviver"

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jenn schiffer 😎 @jennschiffer.com · 28/06/2025

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?)

screenshot of an email from valtown about my bot breaking because i hit character limit:

Error in counting-sheep-on-bluesky

Error: Invalid app.bsky.feed.post record: Record/text must not be longer than 300 graphemes
at ServiceClient.call (file:///opt/render/.cache/deno/npm/registry.npmjs.org/@atproto/api/0.2.10/dist/index.js:7096:15)
at eventLoopTick (ext:core/01_core.js:178:7)
at async PostRecord.create (file:///opt/render/.cache/deno/npm/registry.npmjs.org/@atproto/api/0.2.10/dist/index.js:14333:17)
at async Object.default [as value] (https://esm.town/v/jennschiffer/counting-sheep-on-bluesky@37-main/main.tsx:40:3)
at async mapped (ext:deno_http/00_serve.ts:399:18)

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Daniel Pipkin 🦥 @danielpipk.in · 28/06/2025

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...

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jenn schiffer 😎 @jennschiffer.com · 25/06/2025

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...

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jennschiffer/counting-sheep-on-bluesky

brain of https://bsky.app/profile/countingsheep.bsky.social

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Alex McRoberts @alex.mcroberts.me · 24/06/2025

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…😃

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cheersderek @cheersderek.com · 21/06/2025

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

letterboxd-watchlist-random.netlify.app

Letterboxd watchlist

Get a random film from your Letterboxd watchlist

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Kuan Butts @kuanbutts.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

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/

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nemo @nemo.tatooine.club.ap.brid.gy · 14/06/2025

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.

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jenn schiffer 😎 @jennschiffer.com · 12/06/2025

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

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Eric Portis @ericportis.com · 12/06/2025

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

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charmaine @charmaine.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

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

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Nico Baier @nicobaier.com · 08/06/2025

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

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AMA / Nico Baier

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Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 07/06/2025

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...

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AMA / Tom MacWright

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val.town @val.town · 03/06/2025

📰 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

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Liran Tal @lirantal.com · 29/05/2025

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

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If GitHub Gists could runAnd AWS Lambda was fun

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Willie Freeman @angeltapes.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

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. 😻

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charmaine @charmaine.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

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

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val.town @val.town · 23/05/2025

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 💜🐟

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Val Town for Glitch Users

Updates and articles from the Val Town team

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 22/05/2025

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.

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Important changes are coming to Glitch

We’ve got an important update for the Glitch community today: We’ll be ending web hosting for your apps on Glitch.

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charmaine @charmaine.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

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 💜

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Alex McRoberts @alex.mcroberts.me · 21/05/2025

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.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 16/05/2025

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...

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ThinkUp Tribute

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Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 16/05/2025

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...

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Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 15/05/2025

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

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