Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 11/06/2026we make money by selling hosting & dev productivity, like lovable or render i write public investor updates, so you can follow along how it's going: blog.val.town/2026-may 140
Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 31/03/2026i'm not able to get the val version to work fyi - lmk if you'd like a hand with it 100
Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 25/03/2026it's hard to put into words how good it feels to be quoted by one of my role models 2200
Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 21/03/2026the reports of code's death are greatly exaggerated i spent 10 hours writing this blog post by hand. i would be delighted if you read it stevekrouse.com/precision 2555
Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 19/03/2026Yes simplicity and fast feedback loops. The Remix 3 folks explain it well (attached). This is for small and medium websites (mostly internal tools or small apps) so we don't need fancy bundlers (though I am hopeful this approach will scale eventually!) 110
Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 19/03/2026I'm hopeful that Mastro or Remix 3 could be what I want, but I do love react, so I made something that's fullstack react-router that I am pretty proud of, but it's very experimental www.val.town/x/stevekrous... 210
Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 17/03/2026excited to finally publish val town investor updates! if you care about val town (or me), would love your thoughts on our direction :) blog.val.town/2026-feb 1220
Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 11/02/2026i love building random one-off software, for example, to help me compare webcams great use of vibe-coding (when you can throw away the code) 170
Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 07/02/2026I built a built a better version of lovable! It'll help you build a billion-dollar business in just a few decades! billionaire.val.run 1110
Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 19/01/2026I wrote some advice for college kids in 2026, what I learned since college, what I wish someone told me, etc stevekrouse.com/advice 171
Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 16/01/2026pretty wild that you can send "timings" from the backend to browsers and they'll visualize them for you 0100
Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 05/12/2025Honeycomb really knows how to sticker!!! Thanks so much @charity.wtf ❤️ 161
Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 14/11/2025📢 Introducing The Val Town MCP Server Bring Val Town to your favorite LLM – Cursor, ChatGPT, Zed, wherever! AI coding, instant deployments, built-in SQLite For example, here we use Claude Code to make a blog in a couple prompts Learn more & get started 👉 blog.val.town/mcp 1203
Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 04/11/2025Very excited about this Remix 3 Fetch Router demo by @jim-nielsen.com www.val.town/x/jimniels/f... Remix 3 is still super early (and changing fast) but it's exciting how powerful this full-stack routing thing will be - seems like a perfect fit for val town h/t @tylur.dev for finding this! 1101
Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 28/10/2025i'm hiring a 'growth engineer' to work side-by-side with me at val.town in brooklyn we're a small team on a mission to spread the joy of programming we're looking for someone self-directed, loves talking to users, write english & typescript, and own projects end-to-end if this is you, reach out!! 25314
Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 09/09/2025building 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 0182
Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 07/09/2025We counted 6,575 💃 ("vals") before Bluesky asked me to stop Every 15 minutes for the last couple months, we've been posting an increasingly insane number of vals. It's a testament to @jennschiffer.com's creativity and the permissiveness of the Bluesky API RIP @counting-vals.bsky.social 4283
Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 15/05/2025What 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 1305
Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 17/04/2025sometimes you just want to embed a val town user's profile pic, and in 24 lines of code, now you can! <img src="https://pic.val.run/stevekrouse" /> 182
Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 17/04/2025i 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 2211
Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 03/03/2025Fork, run, edit, & pull request – all under the 60 second bluesky video limit! 050
Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 21/02/2025I proposed to my girlfriend in Quordle. She said yes! stevekrouse.com/proposal 7460
Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 07/02/2025i made a free and hackable status page and uptime monitor, which will email you if your site has downtime it's a val town project, so you can fork it & have it running in seconds we just built forks and pull requests, so be one of the first ever to try them out! they're crazy fast! 2162
Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 28/01/2025so many! this was a cool example recently Catherine is very smart and possibly technical, but according to her this was built with very little coding 030
Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 13/01/2025relevant val code: www.val.town/v/todepond/l... both password and secret message are env variables 131
Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 21/12/2024🤩 Daily email digest of the issue and pull request activity (opened, updated, closed) in a GitHub repo 042
Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 17/12/2024Introducing CerebrasCoder! An open-source app that generates websites with Llama3.3-70b from @cerebrassystems.bsky.social as fast as you can type. 100% free and open-source. (Inference in video is at 1x speed. Me typing sped up 3x.) cerebrascoder.com 2314
Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 16/12/2024something fast is coming tomorrow (this video is at 1x speed) 1281
Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 13/12/2024i made a val of all the vals that got a lot of edits in the last month stevekrouse-showcase.web.val.run 271
Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 02/12/2024Val Town Newsletter #22 Our first newsletter that Bluesky hears about before Twitter ;) 🏗️ Building Projects & Scalable infra 🤖 Townie upgrades 🔑 API Scopes 🌄 Fal Partnership 💳 Updated pricing 💾 Blob storage admins 🤩 100 of our favorite community vals 1165
Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 26/11/2024One of my favorite authors – Robin Sloan who wrote Moonbound and Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore – made a cron val that helped him catch this solar storm This is definitely the single best occasion for this emoji ever: 🤩 0142
Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 26/11/2024This val helps industrial robot programmers! Fanuc robots (which are typically robot arms in factories) only have 1mb of working memory, so this visualization helps folks detect and delete unused parts of their programs www.robot-forum.com/robotforum/t... 041
Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 21/11/2024for the next time you're setting up dns records... stevekrouse-dns_record_debugger.web.val.run 181
Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 19/11/2024i wanted to see which of my users work at yc companies, so i made a val! val.town/v/stevekrouse/yc_finder 050
Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 18/11/2024playing with the firehose is fun! very easy to fork this val val.town/v/stevekrouse/firehose & ask townie to customize it for you (it made this whole thing) if anyone wants to help me pull in the author's username & send me a pull request... 🙏 2171
Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 13/11/2024@maxbittker.bsky.social you're taking down my bluesky 😆 110
Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 31/10/2024All of these demos are open-source and one-click forkable on Val Town You just need your free Cerebras API key in your Val Town env as CEREBRAS_API_KEY stevekrouse-llamapalooza.web.val.run 020
Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 31/10/2024But then I realized that the slow part of that demo was me: we need to get the human out of the loop Let's get Cerebras talking to Cerebras Introducing Cerebras Debater 120
Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 31/10/2024But I realized you couldn't see how fast Cerebras was with another API call for search results in the mix We needed Cerebras to generate a lot of text and see it BOOM as fast as possible So I made CerebrasCoder 100
Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 31/10/2024First up, I put the speed to the test with RAG I made Cerebras Searcher, a Perplexity clone 100
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