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ændra. @aendra.com · Sep 27

Omg that would be cool as heck, love Val.town

Achille Lacoin @pomdtr.me · Sep 27

Thinking about rebuilding @val.town / @smallweb.run on top of atproto, with an architecture inspired by @tangled.org.

Every user can bring it's own runner, but the there is a federated appview for social stuffs (likes, follow, ect...).

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Matt TK Taylor @tk.gg · Sep 16

Very invested in this idea. Bullish on products like @val.town that could handle the security aspect of that (maybe you want to have a button that hits an internal API, or refreshes data).

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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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charmaine @charmaine.bsky.social · Sep 14

wooohooo! how awesome!! and hello 👋

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charmaine @charmaine.bsky.social · Sep 13

oh that’s great to hear!

charmaine @charmaine.bsky.social · Sep 13

wow this is very clean and nice!

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charmaine @charmaine.bsky.social · Sep 10

hahahhahahahahahahahhaha

gaimerI17 @gaimeri.github.io · Sep 10

Thank you for fixing the broken link @val.town

But how dare you rickroll us???

Email telling that yesterday's blog post link was not working.

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Tom MacWright @macwright.com · Sep 9

did we forget the link to the post or were you playing three-dimensional chess increasing engagement by prompting replies to your email, learn this new marketing hack

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charmaine @charmaine.bsky.social · Sep 9

omg I’m cackling

charmaine @charmaine.bsky.social · Sep 9

did i forget the button link in our email? yes

did we get the best responses? also yes 🥰

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val.town @val.town · Sep 5

🔴 LIVE TODAY: Realtime API deep dive w/ Justin Uberti (Head of Realtime AI at OpenAI, WebRTC creator)

⏰ 4pm ET / 1pm PT
📍 Livestream link to come!

We'll walk through the new API and share code samples so you can start building with it right away.

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val.town @val.town · Sep 2

Release notes:
- Mic access now works in the HTTP preview iframe (We did this for @juberti's OpenAI Realtime Demo)
- Flag users or vals for moderation
- 🤫 Easter egg: every val.run val also lives at val.howright now, on our next gen infra!

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charmaine @charmaine.bsky.social · Aug 13

Schedule a demo: cal.com/valtown/val-...

Blog post: blog.val.town/teams

(Or, just DM me :))

Val Town for Teams

Updates and articles from the Val Town team

blog.val.town

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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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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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Alex McRoberts @alex.mcroberts.me · Aug 2

Unsure the size of your demos that you need; but if you like serverless @val.town and Townie is an interesting take on this.

Their tagline is/was “what if gists could run like lambdas?”

Ship code-first automation, internal tools, and demos in minutes.

Val.town

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Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · Jul 30

Vibe code is legacy code

blog.val.town/vibe-code

Vibe code is legacy code

Updates and articles from the Val Town team

blog.val.town

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Paul Kinlan @paul.kinlan.me · Jul 26

📝 New blog post: Holiday musing: fixing stuff on prod

I love Val.town for building little experiments and getting them hosted quicky. The fact that you can instantly have a URL to run code is incredible. I use...

Read more: https://posthero.us/post/holiday-musing-fixing-stuff-on-prod

Holiday musing: fixing stuff on prod

I love Val.town for building little experiments and getting them hosted quicky. The fact that you can instantly have a URL to run code is incredible. I use townie (their agent - https://townie.val.run ) a lot to knock out ideas quickly. Give it a prompt and some $ and you have an app on that url in...

posthero.us

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🛸 Humble Neon @offgrid.lol · Jul 25

man when they got sold i felt so burnt as i really got into the templating at the time. this is great to see and saved me talking to an ai for ages with an astro blog setup so that's useful, thank you. i'll be certainly using through val town. yay.

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Paul Kinlan @paul.kinlan.me · Jul 14

I built an email-to-blog blogging system, much like Posterous from back in the day. It supports publishing to RSS, ActivityPub, BlueSky and pings via WebSub.

posthero.us

If you want your own you can fork it here: www.val.town/x/paulkinlan...

Email Blog

A blog powered by email publishing

posthero.us

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Tijs Teulings 🦑 @tijs.org · Jul 19

Seems to work decently! If you want to play with this yourself just remix my @val.town val and add the env variables for your own val & account www.val.town/x/tijs/atpro... Should run fine on free. But if you want more syncs then every 15 mins just upgrade and change the sync interval...

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itsderek @its-derek.bsky.social · Jul 9

here's a "random line from Ghostbusters" page
cheersderek--9108146d0d48480a9e4ed4e93e5cf857.web.val.run

testing out SASS and other front-end things on @val.town
(thanks for the help @stevekrouse.com)

random GHOSTBUSTERS (1984) quote
Forget it, Venkman!
get the whole script one line at a time by following @ghostbusters1984.bsky.social‬ on bluesky

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charmaine @charmaine.bsky.social · Jul 9

beautiful!!!!!

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Nolan Filter @calamitynolan.bsky.social · Jul 9

great card for the first daily reading from the new bot on Val Town!

Tarot Bot @tarotbot.bsky.social · Jul 9

Reading for 9 July
The Empress

♀️🌾🍇🌟❤️

abundance, creativity, nourishment, beauty

A dark-skinned person with pink eyes looks straight at the viewer. They have curly purple hair tied back in a bun and adorned with pastel pink and yellow flowers. Those same pink and yellow flowers flank them on either side. They hold a cornucopia, inside of which the galaxy can be seen. The cornucopia is overflowing with fruit, flowers, and six stars. One of the stars is tied around the Empress’ neck with a yellow string.

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Nolan Filter @calamitynolan.bsky.social · Jul 9

phew! just got my last bot ported to Val Town from Glitch right as it shuts down forever

this last one had to be completely re-architected but I got the core functionality working. time to not think about this for at least a week :P

gnight from Juicy Bear 🐻

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