Val Town released a self-building Slackbot powered by Claude and the Vercel AI SDK, enabling the coding agent Townie to read, write, run, and query internal tools via the Val Town MCP in 9 lines of co…
Val Town, the instant deploy platform for small apps, reported 6% ARR growth in July 2026, missing its 20% target, though Pro subscriptions grew 26% month-over-month. The company added DeepSeek v4 Fla…
Val Town released its August 6, 2026 changelog, introducing a new docs site, Discover page, and updated Townie models, with DeepSeek V4 Flash now the default model, being ~100x cheaper and roughly as …
Val Town's July 2026 community roundup highlights user-built vals, including Mitch Jacovetty's three-headed hydra experiment, Vincent Termini's AI-slop linter, and Paul Chin Jr.'s lava lamp fluid simu…
Val Town, the social programming environment, announced support for AGENTS.md files, allowing agents like Townie to read per-val, per-user, and per-org instructions. The feature is available to all ag…