Val Town is winding down after four years, with services ending January 10th
Founder Steve Krouse gave users migration guides, refunds and an open-source date after saying Val Town could not compete in cloud computing.
By RuntimeWire Staff · Published
Primary source: Hacker News
Why it matters
For users, the shutdown sets a January 10th, 2027 deadline to move APIs, crons and stored data off Val Town. Krouse said Val Town could not compete in cloud computing, and Val Town has published migration guides to Cloudflare, Vercel, Netlify and Render.
Founder Steve Krouse told Val Town users on November 10th that Val Town is winding down its hosted service, ending a four-year run at building a browser-based place to write and deploy JavaScript. Val Town let users deploy APIs and scheduled jobs and store data without first assembling a conventional hosting stack.…
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