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Re:Val Town is winding down by swyx on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @02:48PM (#50445374)
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 (#50446125)
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.

Re:Val Town is winding down by swyx on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @08:23PM (#50448699)
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 (#50447659)
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
Re:Val Town is winding down by gigatree on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @07:55PM (#50448474)
If you look him up you’ll see he’s very serious
Re:Val Town is winding down by swyx on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @08:22PM (#50448696)
hey man sometimes i meme like my fellow kids
Re:Val Town is winding down by fouc on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @09:56PM (#50449267)
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