Val Town, the service for writing and deploying small JavaScript and TypeScript programs ("vals") from the browser, is closing. Founder Steve Krouse announced it on 10 November 2026: "We've made the difficult decision to wind down Val Town." His reason is that the company couldn't compete in the cloud computing space.
The timeline:
- 10 November 2026: new signups and plan upgrades end.
- 10 December 2026: the platform goes read-only, except SQLite and blob storage.
- 10 January 2027: all other services end.
- 1 February 2027: Val Town is released as open source.
Money: billing is paused as of the announcement, and existing subscriptions keep running for free until the end. Customers who prepaid for an annual plan will get a partial refund.
Moving out: Val Town has published migration guides for Cloudflare, Vercel, Netlify and Render, and says LLMs are good at doing these migrations. According to RuntimeWire, users need to move their APIs, cron jobs and stored data off the platform by 10 January. Help is available at [email protected] and on Val Town's Discord. The announcement drew 337 points on Hacker News.
