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@charmaine.bsky.social
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@val.town. previously building: @snapchat, @unity labs, @microsoft. let's make creativity accessible! www.charmaineklee.com

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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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charmaine @charmaine.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
wooohooo! how awesome!! and hello 👋
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charmaine @charmaine.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
oh that’s great to hear!
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charmaine @charmaine.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
wow this is very clean and nice!
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charmaine @charmaine.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
hahahhahahahahahahahhaha
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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 · 10/09/2025
omg I’m cackling
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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
Schedule a demo: cal.com/valtown/val-... Blog post: blog.val.town/teams (Or, just DM me :))
blog.val.town
Val Town for Teams
Updates and articles from the Val Town team
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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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Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 30/07/2025
Vibe code is legacy code blog.val.town/vibe-code
blog.val.town
Vibe code is legacy code
Updates and articles from the Val Town team
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Paul Kinlan @paul.kinlan.me · 26/07/2025
📝 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: posthero.us/post/holiday-musing-fix…
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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 townie (their agent - https://townie.val.run ) a lot to knock out ideas quickly. Give it a prompt and some $ and you have an app on that url in...
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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...
posthero.us
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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charmaine @charmaine.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
beautiful!!!!!
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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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charmaine @charmaine.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
+1 welcome juicy bear
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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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charmaine @charmaine.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
!! so neat hope you get that approval soon :)
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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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dpip/nonProfitChecker
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charmaine @charmaine.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
sweet!!
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charmaine @charmaine.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
so awesome! any tips for other folks using copilot to convert glitch apps -> val town?
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Anchor @dropanchor.app · 27/06/2025
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
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GitHub - dropanchorapp/anchorPDS: A specialized ATProto server for check-in records, providing location-based social features for the Anchor ecosystem.
A specialized ATProto server for check-in records, providing location-based social features for the Anchor ecosystem. - dropanchorapp/anchorPDS
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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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jenn schiffer 😎 @jennschiffer.com · 25/06/2025
living rn
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charmaine @charmaine.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Right back at ya! Thanks for all the valuable Val Town feedback :) It's great to have you on our platform
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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…😃
Swag from Val Town! A black cap with the Val town logo, a handwritten note from the team, 2 Val town stickers and a Tony’s Chocolonely chocolate bar!
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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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charmaine @charmaine.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
LOOOL so good to know
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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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charmaine @charmaine.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
So great to hear! RE: file uploads - we don't support dragging and dropping files (yet, mostly because it hasn't been a big request). You can try our CLI for bulk uploads though if it becomes too tedious: github.com/val-town/vt
github.com
GitHub - val-town/vt: CLI for the Val Town platform
CLI for the Val Town platform. Contribute to val-town/vt development by creating an account on GitHub.
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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...
tmcw-ama.val.run
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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