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Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 3d

sadly i think we're disqualified bsky.app/profile/josh...

Specifically I'm looking for companies that are medium-sized or larger: think more than a few dozen employees. I want the scale and support of a company that I can rely on for mentorship, personal growth, all that good stuff.

Sorry early stage startups 🥲

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Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 6d

val-town.notion.site/growth-engin...

Growth Engineer | Val Town

Join Val Town, an in-person New York City startup building the most delightful way to get JavaScript running in the cloud

val-town.notion.site

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Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 6d

i'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!!

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Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · Oct 3

great idea!

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Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · Sep 19

lmk if you have any issues - would love to help!

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Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · Sep 19

fun idea!!

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Forrest O. @forresto.bsky.social · Sep 19

Idea to sync a Discord channel and @tldraw.com board. Mozilla Hubs had something like that for VR spaces circa 2020. I could see using Discord and TLDraw together like a... bulletin board.
Talking to @stevekrouse.com about val.town ideas yesterday.

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Wil @wilb.me · Sep 16

I spent the afternoon vibe coding a game and then atprotating it! Live at qbat.val.run

Wil @wilb.me · Sep 16

I won this #QBAT level in 5 moves! Can you beat my score?

QBAT - Level 7x7

Score: 15 points in 5 moves. Try to beat this score!

qbat.val.run

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Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · Sep 16

Thanks!! Let me know if you run into any issues. Happy to help you debug in dms :)

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Alex McRoberts @alex.mcroberts.me · Sep 16

Pretty sure this is why @val.town is going to win out.

Version control, modularity, team projects.

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · Sep 16

Replit, a vibe coding startup, pushed a new product called "agent 3" that appears to be completely broken other than in its ability to burn tons of money

Fear of Agent 3
Question / Discussion
Join
Hi all, I would like to share my experience so far.
Ever since Agent 3 was released, l've been stuck in a nightmare with my app.
I've already spent around $300 and lost an entire weekend completely isolated, trying to fix issues that Agent 3 keeps making worse. My app is live, with about 250 users, and right now it's broken. Users are complaining, and I feel powerless.
Every time I run Agent 3, it feels like pulling the lever of a slot machine. Sometimes it runs for an hour and produces nothing. Sometimes it introduces new bugs. Most of the time, it doesn't solve the problem. I've ended up spending money just to watch things break even further.
I'm mentally exhausted. I wasted a whole weekend like this, and I can't see a way forward. With Agent 2 l had something that worked, but now everything seems fragile and unreliable.
If there were even one way to get out of this at a reasonable cost, I would take it immediately. But everything is tied up on Replit like database, server, user base etc.. I wouldn't even know where to move, and I can't deliver the same experience elsewhere.
Right now, I feel destroyed and broken.
Please, if anyone has advice or a solution, I'd be deeply grateful.
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Tom MacWright @macwright.com · Sep 11

i wrote a whole thing about wrangling npm dependencies because it's an unglamorous part of the job that's nevertheless really important. also because i wanted to make some watercolor illustrations. blog.val.town/gardening-de...

an illustration of a boat, as a metaphor for carrying dependencies

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val.town @val.town · Sep 10

this is tom on the company account retweeting tom on the personal account, devrel maxing, read the post, it's good

Tom MacWright @macwright.com · Sep 10

(my new job at @val.town is editing the blog)

we launched a cli, called vt! you can run it in watch mode and it'll auto-deploy every time you change a file in your project, and you can use claude code, codex, or whatever the hottest new ai tool of the day is

blog.val.town/vt-cli

Introducing vt, the Val Town CLI

Updates and articles from the Val Town team

blog.val.town

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Tom MacWright @macwright.com · Sep 10

(my new job at @val.town is editing the blog)

we launched a cli, called vt! you can run it in watch mode and it'll auto-deploy every time you change a file in your project, and you can use claude code, codex, or whatever the hottest new ai tool of the day is

blog.val.town/vt-cli

Introducing vt, the Val Town CLI

Updates and articles from the Val Town team

blog.val.town

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Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · Sep 9

building 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

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Tom MacWright @macwright.com · Sep 9

this summer @val.town had an intern, and he was truly kickass: read about how @404wolf.bsky.social put the @deno.land LSP server in a cloudflare container, made it speak websockets, wired it up to codemirror, and made the whole thing scale: blog.val.town/vtlsp

Building a better online editor for TypeScript

Updates and articles from the Val Town team

blog.val.town

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Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · Sep 7

If you want to mess with the Bluesky API, this val is still a good starter project to remix:

www.val.town/x/stevekrous...

stevekrouse/counting-vals-on-bluesky

Brain of https://bsky.app/profile/counting-vals.bsky.social

www.val.town

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Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · Sep 7

We 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

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Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · Aug 13

Sqlite2 is a more of a passthrough proxy than sqlite, so we should switch over to it as the default soon, but we're worried about breaking people so we're taking our time

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Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · Aug 13

apologies! it was an accident, we fixed it

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charmaine @charmaine.bsky.social · Aug 13

🎉 Announcing Val Town for Teams

Companies like PostHog, Kilo Code, Stainless, Scalar are using Val Town to automate technical GTM / growth workflows.

Reach out or share this if you, or someone you know is interested 💖

HAPPY BRING YOUR VAL TOWN TO WORK DAY!! (This was such a long time coming)

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Tijs Teulings 🦑 @tijs.org · Aug 4

Book Explorer is a very simple alternate UI for the
@bookhive.buzz social platform for book lovers. This
tool allows you to edit the status of your #atrproto stored books with a simple dropdown per book, or by bulk editing multiple selected books at once.

book-browser.val.run

Book Explorer

book-browser.val.run

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Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · Aug 2

Now I know I've made it!

I threw that tldraw chart in there at the last minute. I love how much it's resonating ❤️

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Maggie Appleton @maggieappleton.com · Aug 2

A helpful graph made by @stevekrouse.com on the inverse relationship between vibes and understanding in AI assisted code.

Put a few thoughts down here: maggieappleton.com/2025-08-vibe...

Original article: blog.val.town/vibe-code

A line chart with vibe on the Y axis and understanding on the X axis with a downwards diagonal line

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Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · Aug 1

so cool!

Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · Jul 31

This is AWESOME. Are you using this with claude code?

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