Steve Krouse
@stevekrouse.com
I built a built a better version of lovable!
It'll help you build a billion-dollar business in just a few decades!
billionaire.val.run
It'll help you build a billion-dollar business in just a few decades!
billionaire.val.run
February 7, 2026 at 3:26 PM
I built a built a better version of lovable!
It'll help you build a billion-dollar business in just a few decades!
billionaire.val.run
It'll help you build a billion-dollar business in just a few decades!
billionaire.val.run
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started playing with mcp servers today and built a little one with just one tool to look up country by ccTLD
val town for the server and @cloudflare.social's ai playground for testing is a nice feedback loop
val town for the server and @cloudflare.social's ai playground for testing is a nice feedback loop
February 3, 2026 at 10:57 PM
started playing with mcp servers today and built a little one with just one tool to look up country by ccTLD
val town for the server and @cloudflare.social's ai playground for testing is a nice feedback loop
val town for the server and @cloudflare.social's ai playground for testing is a nice feedback loop
Reposted by Steve Krouse
would it surprise you to learn that the first thing i tried to make when learning javascript in 2017 was a word game? alexsfirstwordgamewasbad.val.run
January 31, 2026 at 3:59 PM
would it surprise you to learn that the first thing i tried to make when learning javascript in 2017 was a word game? alexsfirstwordgamewasbad.val.run
holy crap! dan abramov knows about val town!
January 29, 2026 at 6:09 PM
holy crap! dan abramov knows about val town!
i came up with a new way to build software!
you write the code yourself with your fingers
it's claude code, in your own brain
it's as local-first as it gets, and sustainable: just slop bowls & 1 gallon of water
lmk if you'd like a help installing in your brain! it's called "learning to code"
you write the code yourself with your fingers
it's claude code, in your own brain
it's as local-first as it gets, and sustainable: just slop bowls & 1 gallon of water
lmk if you'd like a help installing in your brain! it's called "learning to code"
January 26, 2026 at 7:59 PM
i came up with a new way to build software!
you write the code yourself with your fingers
it's claude code, in your own brain
it's as local-first as it gets, and sustainable: just slop bowls & 1 gallon of water
lmk if you'd like a help installing in your brain! it's called "learning to code"
you write the code yourself with your fingers
it's claude code, in your own brain
it's as local-first as it gets, and sustainable: just slop bowls & 1 gallon of water
lmk if you'd like a help installing in your brain! it's called "learning to code"
Reposted by Steve Krouse
First everyone on @bsky.app gets a small database.
Now every Val on @val.town gets a small database.
Who’s next?!
Now every Val on @val.town gets a small database.
Who’s next?!
new thing at @val.town - every val gets a database! plus a database browser / ui. blog.val.town/scoped-datab...
maybe the coolest part: if you fork someone's val, you get a copy of the database schema.
maybe the coolest part: if you fork someone's val, you get a copy of the database schema.
Every val gets a database!
Updates and articles from the Val Town team
blog.val.town
January 23, 2026 at 9:25 PM
Reposted by Steve Krouse
new thing at @val.town - every val gets a database! plus a database browser / ui. blog.val.town/scoped-datab...
maybe the coolest part: if you fork someone's val, you get a copy of the database schema.
maybe the coolest part: if you fork someone's val, you get a copy of the database schema.
Every val gets a database!
Updates and articles from the Val Town team
blog.val.town
January 23, 2026 at 9:23 PM
new thing at @val.town - every val gets a database! plus a database browser / ui. blog.val.town/scoped-datab...
maybe the coolest part: if you fork someone's val, you get a copy of the database schema.
maybe the coolest part: if you fork someone's val, you get a copy of the database schema.
we rebuilt @val.town's ai agent from scratch for the 5th time, and it's pretty great! would love any feedback :)
blog.val.town/townie-v5
blog.val.town/townie-v5
Townie's back in town!
Updates and articles from the Val Town team
blog.val.town
January 22, 2026 at 8:21 PM
we rebuilt @val.town's ai agent from scratch for the 5th time, and it's pretty great! would love any feedback :)
blog.val.town/townie-v5
blog.val.town/townie-v5
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a favorite part of my new job is getting to* doodle for blog posts, like this octocat (drawn with my mouse in @excalidraw.com lol)
*not just getting to, but encouraged to
*not just getting to, but encouraged to
January 20, 2026 at 5:07 PM
a favorite part of my new job is getting to* doodle for blog posts, like this octocat (drawn with my mouse in @excalidraw.com lol)
*not just getting to, but encouraged to
*not just getting to, but encouraged to
I wrote some advice for college kids in 2026, what I learned since college, what I wish someone told me, etc
stevekrouse.com/advice
stevekrouse.com/advice
January 19, 2026 at 8:03 PM
I wrote some advice for college kids in 2026, what I learned since college, what I wish someone told me, etc
stevekrouse.com/advice
stevekrouse.com/advice
pretty wild that you can send "timings" from the backend to browsers and they'll visualize them for you
January 16, 2026 at 11:15 PM
pretty wild that you can send "timings" from the backend to browsers and they'll visualize them for you
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To start 2026 I officially joined @stevekrouse.com, @macwright.com, and co. at @val.town as a programmer-writer, part-time while I continue writing my book :)
Val Town's founding poem is still my favorite way to describe what it is:
> If GitHub Gists could run
> And AWS Lambda were fun
Val Town's founding poem is still my favorite way to describe what it is:
> If GitHub Gists could run
> And AWS Lambda were fun
January 15, 2026 at 3:06 PM
To start 2026 I officially joined @stevekrouse.com, @macwright.com, and co. at @val.town as a programmer-writer, part-time while I continue writing my book :)
Val Town's founding poem is still my favorite way to describe what it is:
> If GitHub Gists could run
> And AWS Lambda were fun
Val Town's founding poem is still my favorite way to describe what it is:
> If GitHub Gists could run
> And AWS Lambda were fun
Reposted by Steve Krouse
My latest obsession has been optimising webhook events from Ghost to Netlify. I needed a way to filter out large payloads sent to Netlify. Using @val.town as a webhook middleware, I can strip payloads and skip triggering builds for certain posts.
jonathanyeong.com/writing/usin...
jonathanyeong.com/writing/usin...
Using Val.town as a webhook middleware
My latest obsession has been optimising webhook events from Ghost to Netlify. I needed a way to filter out large payloads sent to Netlify. Using Val.town as a webhook middleware, I can strip payloads ...
jonathanyeong.com
January 13, 2026 at 11:19 PM
My latest obsession has been optimising webhook events from Ghost to Netlify. I needed a way to filter out large payloads sent to Netlify. Using @val.town as a webhook middleware, I can strip payloads and skip triggering builds for certain posts.
jonathanyeong.com/writing/usin...
jonathanyeong.com/writing/usin...
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It was fun to build flickity.val.run
I turn each article linked from hackernews into a short video by summarizing the post, taking a screenshot and then combining them into a script for veo3.1
Video gen could be better, but surprisingly good.
I turn each article linked from hackernews into a short video by summarizing the post, taking a screenshot and then combining them into a script for veo3.1
Video gen could be better, but surprisingly good.
December 14, 2025 at 4:28 AM
It was fun to build flickity.val.run
I turn each article linked from hackernews into a short video by summarizing the post, taking a screenshot and then combining them into a script for veo3.1
Video gen could be better, but surprisingly good.
I turn each article linked from hackernews into a short video by summarizing the post, taking a screenshot and then combining them into a script for veo3.1
Video gen could be better, but surprisingly good.
Reposted by Steve Krouse
love seeing val.town work through this in public. one of the hardest things we dealt with at glitch was never being able to narrow down to specific use cases - we wanted to be everything to everyone and that's part of how we ended up being nothing to anyone (rip)
what we've been up to recently at val town: blog.val.town/pickling
Pickling Compute
Updates and articles from the Val Town team
blog.val.town
December 8, 2025 at 10:35 PM
love seeing val.town work through this in public. one of the hardest things we dealt with at glitch was never being able to narrow down to specific use cases - we wanted to be everything to everyone and that's part of how we ended up being nothing to anyone (rip)
what we've been up to recently at val town: blog.val.town/pickling
Pickling Compute
Updates and articles from the Val Town team
blog.val.town
December 8, 2025 at 10:23 PM
what we've been up to recently at val town: blog.val.town/pickling
ah the bicycle, the computer for the body
December 8, 2025 at 3:03 PM
ah the bicycle, the computer for the body
Honeycomb really knows how to sticker!!! Thanks so much @charity.wtf ❤️
December 5, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Honeycomb really knows how to sticker!!! Thanks so much @charity.wtf ❤️
📢 Introducing The Val Town MCP Server
Bring Val Town to your favorite LLM – Cursor, ChatGPT, Zed, wherever! AI coding, instant deployments, built-in SQLite
For example, here we use Claude Code to make a blog in a couple prompts
Learn more & get started 👉 blog.val.town/mcp
Bring Val Town to your favorite LLM – Cursor, ChatGPT, Zed, wherever! AI coding, instant deployments, built-in SQLite
For example, here we use Claude Code to make a blog in a couple prompts
Learn more & get started 👉 blog.val.town/mcp
November 14, 2025 at 3:04 PM
📢 Introducing The Val Town MCP Server
Bring Val Town to your favorite LLM – Cursor, ChatGPT, Zed, wherever! AI coding, instant deployments, built-in SQLite
For example, here we use Claude Code to make a blog in a couple prompts
Learn more & get started 👉 blog.val.town/mcp
Bring Val Town to your favorite LLM – Cursor, ChatGPT, Zed, wherever! AI coding, instant deployments, built-in SQLite
For example, here we use Claude Code to make a blog in a couple prompts
Learn more & get started 👉 blog.val.town/mcp
Reposted by Steve Krouse
i wrote everything that i've been kind of nervous to write about @val.town: here's how things have been going the last three years, and read to the end for how we're hiring for two people macwright.com/2025/11/11/v...
Val Town 2023-2025 Retrospective
The whole story
macwright.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:07 PM
i wrote everything that i've been kind of nervous to write about @val.town: here's how things have been going the last three years, and read to the end for how we're hiring for two people macwright.com/2025/11/11/v...
Reposted by Steve Krouse
made enough progress on coney letters to push to prod loopyletters.val.run/coney
like my other "find a big word" games, the words are random uniformly pulled from the wordnik list, which includes a lot of junk. i'm sorry. better on mobile than desktop.
like my other "find a big word" games, the words are random uniformly pulled from the wordnik list, which includes a lot of junk. i'm sorry. better on mobile than desktop.
November 9, 2025 at 10:46 PM
made enough progress on coney letters to push to prod loopyletters.val.run/coney
like my other "find a big word" games, the words are random uniformly pulled from the wordnik list, which includes a lot of junk. i'm sorry. better on mobile than desktop.
like my other "find a big word" games, the words are random uniformly pulled from the wordnik list, which includes a lot of junk. i'm sorry. better on mobile than desktop.
Reposted by Steve Krouse
recommitted to @opensourcepledge.com at @val.town for 2025! very pumped to support projects like zod, fastify, codemirror, unified, and esm.sh with real 💸 as well as positive vibes.
blog.val.town/oss-pledge
blog.val.town/oss-pledge
Year Two of the Open Source Pledge
Updates and articles from the Val Town team
blog.val.town
November 5, 2025 at 9:10 PM
recommitted to @opensourcepledge.com at @val.town for 2025! very pumped to support projects like zod, fastify, codemirror, unified, and esm.sh with real 💸 as well as positive vibes.
blog.val.town/oss-pledge
blog.val.town/oss-pledge
Very excited about this Remix 3 Fetch Router demo by
@jim-nielsen.com
www.val.town/x/jimniels/f...
Remix 3 is still super early (and changing fast) but it's exciting how powerful this full-stack routing thing will be - seems like a perfect fit for val town
h/t @tylur.dev for finding this!
@jim-nielsen.com
www.val.town/x/jimniels/f...
Remix 3 is still super early (and changing fast) but it's exciting how powerful this full-stack routing thing will be - seems like a perfect fit for val town
h/t @tylur.dev for finding this!
November 4, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Very excited about this Remix 3 Fetch Router demo by
@jim-nielsen.com
www.val.town/x/jimniels/f...
Remix 3 is still super early (and changing fast) but it's exciting how powerful this full-stack routing thing will be - seems like a perfect fit for val town
h/t @tylur.dev for finding this!
@jim-nielsen.com
www.val.town/x/jimniels/f...
Remix 3 is still super early (and changing fast) but it's exciting how powerful this full-stack routing thing will be - seems like a perfect fit for val town
h/t @tylur.dev for finding this!
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!!
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!!
October 28, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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!!
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!!