Val Town Projects

In plain words

Val Town Projects is a platform for organizing and managing multiple hosted JavaScript files together as a unified unit. It groups vals, files, and folders with built-in support for branches, forks, and merges—using a simplified versioning system stored directly in a database rather than git. The tool is designed for developers who found managing individual vals cumbersome and need better collaboration features for larger codebases.

written from the facts on this page · September 2026

From the sources

In the maker’s words, at launch

Hello! We at Val Town have spent the last couple months redesigning our product around a new core primitive: Val Town Projects. Why: Our prior core primitive, a "val", was too small. A val is just a single hosted JavaScript file. Users kept bumping up against rough edges managing lots of disparate vals. What: A Val…

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  Val Town – A Cloud Scripting Site2023 · val.town · ▲332

  Hey HN! We're so excited to show you Val Town (https://val.town)! A "val" is a JavaScript/TypeScript function or value that runs on our servers. We aim to get you from idea to running code in seconds: type code, run it, get its API endpoint, schedule it - all from the browser, in a couple keystrokes. We're a startup of 4 people, mostly in NYC. We've been working on this for 6 months and are eager for feedback from the HN community. Why do we need yet another online coding IDE? While researching devtools[1], I found myself wanting something halfway between Replit and Zapier: a…

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  Supabase2024 · supabase.com · ▲2,325

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  val – An arbitrary precision calculator language2025 · github.com · ▲34

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  Dev tools · 22d ago · openbot.run

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  Dev tools · 2025 · byran.ee

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  I realized that the PDF engines of modern desktop browsers (PDFium and PDF.js) support JavaScript with enough I/O primitives to make a basic game like Tetris. It was a bit tricky to find a union of features that work in both engines, but in the end it turns out that showing/hiding annotation "fields" works well to make monochrome pixels, and keyboard input can be achieved by typing in a text input box. All in all it's quite janky but a nice reminder of how general purpose PDF scripting can be. The linked PDF is all ASCII so you can just open it in a text editor, or have a look at…

  Life & fun · 2025 · th0mas.nl

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  I originally built this app to organize and reuse interesting React + Tailwind components I came across on Twitter, inspired by the shadcn/ui approach. Later, a friend started contributing their own components, and it got me thinking—this could grow into something bigger, like an NPM for design engineers to share and use components. Would love to hear your thoughts!

  Dev tools · 2025 · 21st.dev

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