I think that's what's he's cooking now: https://github.com/mech-lang I still keep checking on it. There were a lot of great ideas in Eve.

To be clear, the "he" is not Steve, but the parent poster. Maybe obvious, wasn't to me 8)

That was my question. The little i understood of ValTown seemed like a sustainable, small business. No need for it to get huge. As long as it doesn't require hosting cheaper than customers would be wiling to pay. Given the type of services you could probably multi-tenant the boxes quite heavily and predictably (lots of crons you understand, etc).

I didn't look at it closely, but everything i saw looked like a great small business. VC money seems confusing, i must be missing a lot.

If you're in the "vc-world" a small business is hard to wrap your brain around; it's an entirely different think and thing.

In this case, I think VC investment was essentially required because the idea for Val Town originally came from a VC (Dan Levine), rather than a founder - see 9.04ish onwards from the interview with Steve Krouse: https://puckacademy.substack.com/p/steve-krouse-on-val-towns...

This is a fundamental question that founders struggle with every day. A classic "hard problem" where there isn't an objective correct answer.

As a failed VC backed founder, I agree. This is the way to go.