stevekrouse

Thanks!!

Such great feedback! Thank you! Val Town Pro is priced around "developer productivity" more than low-level compute costs. Ideally you start as a free user and find the platform so useful tha…

In a first-class way? Probably some day! Today the way you can do it is either 1) polling for new things (scheduled vals make this really easy) or 2) creating a webhook with val town (also super easy …

Thanks!! I originally called it eval town and called the units of computation evals, but my friend JP pulled a sean parker on me and told me to drop the 'e', and it became val town! It'…

Our strategy is to go extremely deep into one language/ecosystem (JS/TS) and be able to provide extremely good tooling around it. The downside is that there won't be a Rust version any …

Wow, thanks so much!

Great question! A val is a small snippet of JavaScript/TypeScript that runs on our servers. You can also schedule them. We're trying to make a new kind of web primitive, like a Tweet or a Gi…

Thanks! Let me know if you have any feedback or suggestions :)

Thanks Wil!!

Apologies! I've been in a lowercase mood recently

Great catch, thanks! Pushing a fix now...

We're the creators of Val Town ;)

Windmill is very cool! Reminds me a bit of pipedream.com too, but it's cool that you guys are open-source and self-hostable. Yeah we have a timeout, but will likely need to continue to add restri…

thanks!

This is a cool idea too! The easiest thing to do here would be to schedule it to run daily or weekly instead of hourly. But you can also build this aggregation thing too on Val Town. Lmk if you want a…

No, sorry. It's just polling HN via the Agolia API, so if you post on HN publicly, anyone can poll for that data.

It includes both. I just made a forked version that takes an extra `tags` parameter that lets you customize which kinds of posts you want to subscribe to: https://www.val.town/v/s…

Great question! Andrew Healey wrote a great blog post about sandboxing, particularly related to us: https://healeycodes.com/sandboxing-javascript-code And we recently launched more se…

What do you mean by LinkedInSanity?

We go back and forth on what we should add to the platform vs encourage you to do for yourself. For example, you can do this yourself fairly easily with ntfy.sh: https://www.val.town/v…

Depends who you follow, right?

There were a couple of factors why it took a week: 1. We wanted to avoid downtime, so the pg dump was slowed down because it was happening alongside production use of the db 2. We abuse postgres in a …

I'm not great at shell scripting tbh. It's not a coincidence that I built a cloud scripting platform

Thanks! It's not open source today but I hope we can open source most of one we do one day

Founder of Val Town here We're excited to launch these new semantics! I'll be around today to answer any questions & help y'all upgrade your vals :)

Yeah I regret this decision. [Founder of Val Town here] We hope to move to a more web-standard import syntax soon.. I learned my lesson!