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Re:Val Town is winding down by swyx on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @02:48PM (#50445363)
> It seems to me about 2-3 years is all you get for seed runway, when realistically projects like this should take at minimum 5 years incubating.

measuring things by years is not really first principles thinking. i think the reality is that end user programming looks a lot more like notion than it is like valtown.

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Re:Val Town is winding down by bwilliams18 on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @05:26PM (#50447176)
the only successful example of end user programming is Excel. start there and work backwards.
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Re:Val Town is winding down by d-us-vb on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @10:47PM (#50449551)
What about emacs? Sure, it's not for everyone, but it finds those for whom it is, and those people, even when they're not "programmers" (PHds, Lawyers, etc, are known to use it and program elisp in it), still seem to take to elisp fairly well.
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Re:Val Town is winding down by pjc50 on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @05:20AM (#50451733)
Rounding error compared to the number of Excel users.
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