Val Town Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• 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 / about 22 hours 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 / 8 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 / 4 months ago

• Ask HN: What's the stack for your "home-cooked meal" apps?

  Lately I've been enjoying https://val.town for little things that only make sense for me, especially notifications and RSS feeds for things that don't typically have RSS feeds. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• An app can be a home-cooked meal

  If I were doing something like this now I would probably try to use https://val.town It lets you just write and deploy typescript lambdas in the site with no fuss that also have SQLite or blob storage access. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Pipe Dreams: The life and times of Yahoo Pipes

  If you're more handy with code, I'd also recommend checking out https://val.town which lets you quickly create automations and endpoints. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• Placemark is going open source and shutting down

  Val (https://val.town), the new project you're working on is super cool! Been playing around with it for the last couple of months and have been delighted with it :). - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• Ask HN: What low code platforms are worth using?

  I've used https://val.town as plumbing between webhooks where I needed to restructure a JSON payload, but only wanted to write the business logic. It's great for Zapier/IFTTT-like tasks but where you still want to write code for the business logic, you just don't want to scaffold up the rest of the pieces. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago