About Val Town

Val Town is an automation & internal tools platform for programmers. We call our customers "know-code" engineers (as in, not "no-code") who want useful tools that work immediately without configuring infra but who also want the full power of code when they need it. Our founding poem from 2022 captures Val Town in ten words:

If GitHub Gists could run
and AWS Lambda were fun

What does that mean? It means that on Val Town you get versioned code (like a Gist) that can run (like a Lambda), with a box of goodies that make programming joyful again. You can create APIs, schedule crons, email yourself, and persist data.

Mission

Our mission is end-user programming, and we're working to get there by way of end-programmer programming. We believe everyone should have computational literacy and agency, in the same way they should have literacy to read and write their native language. We dream of a world where everyone shapes their software to improve their lives and communities. We believe in Seymour Papert’s vision that a well-designed programming environment ("Mathland") can make its users smarter, and strive to create such an environment.

We build tooling around JavaScript so that programming in Val Town feels more like editing a spreadsheet than using an IDE. We're creating a cloud computing, collaboration, and deployment platform that's bigger than the sum of its parts. We aim to build a product that everyone uses in their personal and professional lives, starting with developers and founders (for example, to catch stars - finding new hires and customers among your GitHub contributors ).

We dream of supporting long-term, moonshot, open-source research – in the style of ARPA, Bell Labs, and XEROX PARC – towards the next technological revolution.

Team

Steve Krouse - CEO, co-founder
Tom MacWright - CTO, co-founder
Brent Jackson - design-engineer
Pete Millspaugh - writer-engineer

Investors

We are proud to be funded by Dan Levine at Accel.
Read: Val Town's Seed Round

Learn more

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