well.. how does his decision affect how you feel about the space you're in?
Re:Val Town is winding down
by yakkomajuri on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @03:49PM
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Fair question! We're a much younger company and thus more malleable. Val Town was started basically pre-AI and had early traction that might have locked it into its path a little bit.
We're young and still figuring things out and this announcement is yet another data point about the simplified infra for devs space maybe not being very promising but most of our customers at the moment are actually non-technical teams who have struggled to use anything else. You could argue in some ways Val Town was tangentially in the same space as Lovable & Co and those companies are still going strong.
I think there's real signal in this announcement but it's also hard to derive general lessons for a whole market from a single company given how many variables come into play.
good answer
nah val town wanted a v different type of user than lovable
Re:Val Town is winding down
by threecheese on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @06:14PM
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I can't tell if you're mentoring, trolling, seeing an opportunity, or are genuinely curious. A man of (waves hand in front of face) MySTeRY
If you look him up you’ll see he’s very serious
hey man sometimes i meme like my fellow kids
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whoa - we're building something very similar. i scheduled some time with you.
very much agree that I've been inspired by val.town's craft
Just want to second Tom being great. His blog is fantastic and he's a genuine guy who's happy to help or answer questions when you reach out.
Steve and Tom also individually have some of the best blogs out on the web.
I wish them all the best with whatever comes next. I'm pretty sure they'll all do great things.