Val Town is winding down

	Val Town is winding down(blog.val.town)
	417 points by tosh 1 day ago \| 100 comments
	tl;dr: Val Town is shutting down, citing inability to compete in cloud computing. Billing is paused immediately, with new signups ending today, read-only mode starting Dec 10, 2026, all services ending Jan 10, 2027, and the platform being open-sourced Feb 1, 2027. The team has provided migration guides to Cloudflare, Vercel, Netlify, and Render, and will issue partial refunds for annual plans.
	HN Discussion: ↑Building a business in the end-user programming/dev platform space is inherently very difficult ↑Val Town's dependence on Deno made its demise predictable after Cloudflare acquisition ↑Sadness and personal appreciation for the team's craft, values, and transparency •Confusion about what Val Town actually was and its unique value proposition •This reflects a broader trend of devtools companies closing or being acquired