About Val Town
Founded in 2022, Val Town is a social website to code in the cloud. You can create APIs, scheduled functions, email yourself, and persist data. We offer a free tier and a paid plan.
Mission
Our mission is end-user 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 work towards end-user programming by way of end-programmer programming. 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 tinkerers.
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
We're currently a team of three. We work in Brooklyn, NY. We're hiring!
- Steve Krouse - CEO, co-founder
- Tom MacWright - CTO, co-founder
- Andre Terron - founding engineer
Investors
We are proud to be funded by Dan Levine at Accel.
Learn more
You can learn more about Val Town by signing up, reading our blog or docs, or listening to podcasts: