stevekrouse

This is definitely something you could build in https://val.town . Someone made a little daily query that checks for new citations on a particular paper: https://www.val.town…

Excellent question! rolls up sleeves I'm a big fan of pipedream, admirer of modal, and have played around with autocode. Telefunc is new to me; thanks for the pointer; it looks neat! We're…

Thanks! Yeah we have made security our #1 after this launch went so much better than expected. As someone else noted, we already have secrets on the platform, but I am eager to hear more about what yo…

You're totally right. The main reason I left JavaScript out of the title is because many of our most passionate users didn't know JavaScript when they started using the product! This was a b…

Thanks! You can do `@me.secrets.foo` to access a secret called `foo`. We should add this tip in a more accessible place on the site!

Thanks for the offer! What would you want to pay and what would you expect to get in return?

Great idea! We don't have any yet. I'd love to work with you on making some though. Email me at steve@val.town if you'd be interested in pair programming or otherwise collaborating :)

Thanks! Vals are private unless you add `export` at the beginning of the val, before its name. Is there anything else you'd expect to get if you paid for it? We're quite open to suggestions …

Amazing! We should chat :)

Ah, excellent questions! You should be able to delete a val Delete button in the three-dots-menu in the top right corner of every val. You can either delete a specific version of a val or all versions…

I don't want to say too much, because I know our security isn't perfect, and some about of obfuscation adds some security. Once we move to a more secure model, I will happily tell you all wh…

Thanks! We manually added `parseXML` to our runtime, which uses fast-xml-parser from npm. Would that work for your usecase? I'm happy to manually add other npm modules by request until we figure …

Great questions! The short answer is yes: the val namespace can act as a persistent key/value store. Type write `@me.citationCount = 7` anywhere in your code, and that will work. The downside is …

Yes, it is similar! We see Deno Deploy more as a competitor to AWS Lambda or Cloudflare workers, a true business-scale offering. Val Town is more light, fun and social. It's meant to be used in p…

We've got one node of 2 vCPU & 8192 MB on Northflank for $72 / month. We were getting away with 1 vCPU & 2048 MB, but increased it yesterday to be extra safe for this launch. Our dat…

We hope to make parts of it open-source! Just hasn't been a focus yet

Yes! I was a huge fan of webscript.io. Great feature request, too.

Thanks! I would love to do self-hosting, but probably not any time soon. We're currently focused on making a delightful hobbyist product, and punting on all the business features for a while. We …

Thanks! The short answer is that we're super small and folks are using us for really light use-cases. Our total server costs are less than $100 / month. Eventually, we'll offer paid ser…

The backstory here is that when we saw how akkartik was using the tool, we decided to double down on this particular usecase and we built hnfollow.com as a showcase of what could be done with the tool…

Thanks!! Excellent question. We're using a node sandboxing environment that nobody has been able to break out of yet, but we plan to move to a more secure isolation model very soon. We're st…

Yes, exactly!