Townie upgrades & faster HTTP vals
Meet Townie, our AI assistant that helps you ship apps fast
Townie AI, Faster vals, and Lockfiles
We donated $9,600 to open-source!
Adding lockfiles to Val Town for stability, security, and performance.
Like Claude Artifacts, but with a backend and database
Missing permissions-checking in our internal save endpoint
Taking advantage of our typed REST API to build a platform around Val Town.
Full-screen Editor, 5x faster HTTP vals, new Dashboard, improved Search, Townie redesign, Trending redesign, Profile filters, and more!
At Val Town we spawn a lot of processes. We're working on making it faster
We built a new runtime for HTTP vals that is up to 5x faster at scale
Why we’re using TypeBox instead of Zod for our server validation layer
How switching to Fastify let us embrace runtime and compile-time types
HTTP Streaming, Semantic Search, Townie AI Chat, and a TypeScript SDK
How to build semantic search with embeddings for Val Town within Val Town itself
Val Town supports HTTP streaming for streaming LLMs, large requests and responses, and server-sent events
Improved performance, redesigned val page, live coding, and much more!
Disclosure, mitigation, and next steps
A more understandable entry-point to Val Town
Our seed round, growing team, Codeium completions, @std/openai, and more