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Posted by tosh 6 hours ago

Val Town is winding down(blog.val.town)
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prisonguard 4 hours ago|
Steve, I don't know whether you can read this but any chance the code can be made open source. It would greatly help me and others to extend your vision.
Jaydenaus 3 hours ago|
It's mentioned in the blog post
prisonguard 3 hours ago||
I missed it, thanks!
jborichevskiy 4 hours ago||
I'm gonna miss it. It was such a solid place for a v0.5 of something where I get hosting, a db, subdomains, logging, and more right off the bat.

Thank you for a wonderful service!

kinlan 4 hours ago||
Steve and the team at Val town were amazing. I loved the product and I also loved the team who were incredibly approachable and very community centric.

Thank you Steve

ndom91 5 hours ago||
Sad to see this. Val town was a great little platform! Lots of cool ideas
aanet 6 hours ago||
Whaaaat. I thought this was a successful business??

Sorry to hear this. Hopefully will be open sourced?

janpio 6 hours ago||
From the link:

> Open-sourcing Val Town - Feb 1, 2027

rhazn 6 hours ago||
Says open sourcing on Feb 1 right in the blog post ;).
aanet 4 hours ago||
Dang. Missed it. (sorry!) Glad to see open sourcing..
rpmisms 5 hours ago||
Aw, I liked Val Town. Any self-hosted alternatives people like?
rubenfiszel 4 hours ago||
Not a 1:1 alternative but lots of overlap with https://windmill.dev
flymasterv 2 hours ago|||
smallweb.run is basically self-hosted val.town
doctoboggan 5 hours ago||
Seems like they are open sourcing it early next year, so maybe Val Town is the best self hosted alternative to itself.
rpmisms 4 hours ago||
That would be pretty fantastic. In my experience, enterprise products can be annoying to scale down, though.
hacker_88 4 hours ago||
There's need for this type of service, make bun town maybe. Open sourcing might get it somewhere
dorongrinstein 4 hours ago||
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asdev 5 hours ago||
Seeing a lot of wind down posts recently, guessing that will only accelerate
acdevlin42 5 hours ago|
Out of curiosity, what other companies have put out "wind down posts" recently and is there a common theme to them?
hacker_88 4 hours ago||
Tailwind
nullstyle 5 hours ago|
I’ll say the same thing I did with Deno’s death: it’s a shame.
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