Val Town Reviews

Scratch Reviews

1. Pratham shah

   | nothing at none | about 2 years ago
   TOO GOOD

   It is just awesome. you can make so many things WITHOUT A TEAM! If you are starting then this is an awesome place to start at.

   🏁 Competitors: Python, Java, Code.org

   👍 Pros:    Good UI|Remix|Works perfectly|100% free|Many, many languages

Val Town mentions (10)

• Creating GPT Actions with ValTown

  Create an account on ValTown if you haven't already. Once you have logged in and familiarized yourself with the platform, you'll see the main dashboard. - Source: dev.to / 6 days ago

• Static Chess

  Learned about https://fav.farm and https://val.town from this. Neat resources! - Source: Hacker News / 14 days ago

• Show HN: CronGPT – Generate cron expressions with ChatGPT

  I made this minisite so I wouldn't have to watch users write their own cron expressions in Val Town[1] during user onboarding calls. The worst part was that after they'd figure out the cron, then they'd forget to do the timezone conversion to UTC. My site guesses your timezone based on your browser timezone, but lets you select another one if you want. In this way, my site is a slight improvement over Cron... - Source: Hacker News / 18 days ago

• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2024)

  Val Town | Founding Engineers | ONSITE (Brooklyn) | Full-time | $150k & 0.5-2% equity We believe everybody should be able to code. Our product is as if Github Gists could run or AWS Lambda were fun. On Val Town, you can write, collaborate, and deploy code. Users make websites, HTTP endoints, crons, and email handlers. Our userbase is small but passionate, and growing quickly. We just raised $5.5m from Accel, Tom... - Source: Hacker News / 26 days ago

• Show HN: I made an online Webhook Tester

  Really nice UX here, well done. It's also easy to set up a webhook endpoint on https://val.town. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

Scratch mentions (558)

• Ask HN: Modern Day Equivalent to HyperCard?

  LiveCode is about the closest literal logical successor to HyperCard. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiveCode?wprov=sfti1 That said, I think Scratch is a better learning environment these days and you can develop workable apps in the style of HyperCard. There are plenty of tutorials, documentation, and examples to work from. https://scratch.mit.edu. - Source: Hacker News / 25 days ago

• Screen-free coding for children: the xylophone maze

  And https://codecombat.com, which has been around for a while now. I think this paradigm (navigating a character using "move" function invocations) is good but kind of exhausts its usefulness after a while. I question whether my daughter learns coding this way or just is playing a turn based top down platformer. The most code like thing is when you use 'loops' to have characters repeat sequences of moves. I... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Ask HN: Yo wants to build a game, I'm lost. What can I do?

  +1 Scratch! My son started with it, then expanded into Roblox/Lua. Children can download other people's games and experiment there. Scratch also has pre-made art, sounds, music. https://scratch.mit.edu/. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Ask HN: Yo wants to build a game, I'm lost. What can I do?

  I am also going to highly recommend Scratch[1]. That is what got me into a programming around that age. You can even help him make a website to host his games on. [1]: https://scratch.mit.edu/. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Ask HN: Yo wants to build a game, I'm lost. What can I do?

  This ! Learning to code will come after, spending time with your son writing down ideas might be more fun at first and it's a good time to teach him that games are thoughts first and then coded after. I would have recommended Scratch [1] for a first introduction instead of hoping into code right away, but since he is 9yo he will most likely want to hop on big game engine like he sees his favorite youtubers doing.... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago