I'm sorry to hear this didn't work out for him, but there's no doubt that he'll get the next one (or maybe the one after that).

Steve inspired us to build a val.town-like platform Gitlip (https://gitlip.com/) in early 2025. We quietly stopped working on it about a year ago because it was difficult to get paying customers.

I've been thinking that the idea of a cloud for personal applications makes less sense as time goes on - because that area of the market will be captured by the harnesses that alloe people to build their toy project in the first place - like how Claude can deploy your websites.

Thank you Steve

Thank you for a wonderful service!

I kind of liked their story and wanted to support them. Their UX wasn't great for one (back when I tried it at least). But I think the bigger problem is that the big opportunity for them was that they started early before it was crowded, and if they didn't capture a big market share then, now it's too late and impossible to compete. For agents to be useful you need to integrate them with all your services and data, and if you're already using a trusted provider Like Claude or ClaudeFlare etc. then it's easy just to stick with their offerings.

Thanks for the migration guide!