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The homepage of val.town says "Zapier for know-code engineers".. Is KNOW-code engineer a term?
by dakolli 6mo ago
The homepage of val.town says "Zapier for know-code engineers".. Is KNOW-code engineer a term?
- CharlesW 6mo agoIt's just a play on the phrase "no code". Maybe you can help me out: I still have no idea what val.town is. I guess it's an alternative to Cloudflare Workers?
- dakolli 6mo agoThat's a good question, I was having a hard time figuring that out myself. They call themselves the "zapier" for developers. In reality it seems kinda like a FaaS but idk. They have a code intelligence product that seems like a FIM autocomplete. Very confusing product suite.
- petemilly 6mo agoHey, I work at Val Town, and we definitely struggle to describe what it is because the platform is so broad, but I'll try: a javascript code editor in the browser that auto-deploys that code to our servers whenever you edit a file. You can run code by clicking a button, on a cron, via HTTP. And there's other stuff like SQLite and blob storage So yes, like Cloudflare Workers in some ways. Or like CodePen but fullstack. Or Replit. The val town "founding poem" was: > If GitHub Gists could run, > And AWS Lambda were fun
- petemilly 6mo agoThis comment thread was a nudge to push out a quick experimental change to the val.town landing page, so thank you. Very open to feedback on that messaging if anyone has any. Most customers these days ask about using val town with claude code, so you could also think of us as a deployment platform for vibe coded apps
- dakolli 6mo agoI wasn't trying to be negative. I think the changes you made to your landing page are more communicative than before, good luck with val.town.
- petemilly 6mo agoThanks! And btw I didn't perceive your comment as negative! More a helpful confirmation of what we've been thinking: "yeah, we have a messaging/positioning problem"