Talk of the Town is our series highlighting neat public vals in userspace.
Community vals #
Justin Uberti, Head of Realtime at OpenAI, made hello-live.val.run to demo GPT-Live. You can literally call the val by telephone!
This might be a bit quaint in the age of Codex, but here’s a simple GPT-Live API demo of a voice agent that you can access via web or phone. web: https://t.co/vpSayItSyH phone: 425-800-0073 source: https://t.co/DyF68xwBRw It’s easy to customize - check out routes/agent.ts. https://t.co/G0JDKxe8Ix
— Justin Uberti (@juberti)September 11, 2026
Justin is a recurring friend of the town (see: March, May) with many OpenAI Realtime demo vals to his name. (If you’re interested in trying out more AI voice demos on Val Town, we also have one for Gemini Live.)
Jim Nielsen wrote an analytics-cron val to stick his Netlify web analytics data—which goes kapoof after 30 days—into SQLite.
📝 I'm officially a hoarder now.
Netlify throws away my analytics data every 30 days, but I finally setup a little automation with @val.town to persist it.
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@jim-nielsen.com) September 13, 2026 at 11:28 PM
Luis Gabriel published a Youtube RSS feed val, using Codex and the Val Town agent plugin. He wrote a great blog post about it, too. Thanks for the kind words, LG!
I was quite happy with the result. I think this is vibe coding at its finest. A simple tool written specifically for me, the way that I wanted it. -LG
Arber Xhindoli, founder of Canonry, made two vals for testing your brand’s AEO on Val Town: a brand perception check and an AI visibility check. Charlie also interviewed Arber about AEO as part of his “Charlie learns AEO in public for Val Town” series.
Owen Christofferson made a tiny transit info website, grand-perkins.val.run, for (presumably) his stop in Oakland. A val can be a home-cooked meal.
On the topic of home-cooked transit apps, Jonathan Blanchard made a street cleaning parking map for Park Slope, Brooklyn: parkslope-parking.val.run.
And one more—Kirill Maltsev home-cooked a personal transit val for his stop in Tallinn, Estonia.
“Val Town? Oh, that’s the personal transit website builder, right?”
Nico Baier made
example-domain.val.run, a canonical
*.val.run example URL, in the spirit of IANA’s
example.com. Nico also created a
Lorem Ipsum API at
lipsum.val.run, which I am waiting for an excuse to
use!
curl https://lipsum.val.run/p
curl https://lipsum.val.run/p/3
curl https://lipsum.val.run/s
curl https://lipsum.val.run/s/5
Nico is a prolific friend of the town, always producing a steady stream of neat vals (or as he puts it in his bio: “Valin’ up a storm”).
Devon Winrick, creator of FastComments, built a blog-with-comments demo val and contributed a FastComments integration guide to our docs. If your agent is integrating FastComments in a val, it can refer to agent skills on fastcomments-skills.val.run.
Fabian Iwand asked Townie to make a Commitfest-to-RSS val for following Postgres patches without having to subscribe to the mailing list or wait for the cool-off period on new accounts.
Paul Chin Jr. made a “cute feed of animals skateboarding,” available for your viewing pleasure at the cleverly named boardmembers.val.run. Paul is vibing all sorts of Fun Software on Val Town, like his glamstrum site (“Webcam air guitar. Big hair. Bigger riffs.”) and firstpage.val.run (“A 20-minute HTML website maker for kids”).
Mariano Guerra vibe coded his own coding agent for Val Town-specific code.
Derek Ahmedzai made a Letterboxd heartbeat visualization that you can try at letterboxd-heartbeat.cheersderek.com.
new letterboxd toy! it takes your last 50 ratings and makes a nice heartbeat monitor visualisation, and you can even save a png or gif
share your #letterboxdheartbeat pic.twitter.com/GYQtUzMXJd
Frank van Puffelen used Codex to create a goodreads-bookhive-sync val that automatically syncs his GoodReads updates to BookHive.
Ozan Öğreden made org-publish (live at org-publish.val.run) for publishing plain text files from Emacs or Neovim.
jellyj created everyone-red-button.val.run. It reminds me of The (Reddit) Button, which—fun fact—was created by Josh Wardle of Wordle fame. (I also created The Val Town Button a few years ago, before I worked here.)
Holger Harzer vibed readable.val.run on top of the Mozilla Readability library, which lets you paste a URL and get the same webpage back with less “clutter” (like Firefox’s reader mode).
Romain Demesmay vibe coded pizza-feu-de-bois, apparently an app to order wood-fired pizzas for house parties, which I am including because I initially assumed it meant “pizza for the boys.
Many people are vibe coding MCP servers to stick an API they use into their chatbots, like Emad Gadou’s MCP servers for Brave Search; Nososke’s for Google Classroom, Google Maps & Google Earth, and YouTube; Yuki Murakami’s for Oura; and Lindsay Patrick’s for Sleeper Fantasy Football.
From the Val Town team #
Charlie made Whose Jev is it anyway? at whosejev.val.run. Made me laugh!
Charlie also made JevHero at jevhero.val.run. Made me laugh again.
Steve made a Jev demo to classify your prose at typesafe-demo.val.run.
typesafe’s jev is fun! live demo you can play with: https://t.co/ctnPF0w70r https://t.co/i6kMGkkWOV
— Steve Krouse (@stevekrouse)September 16, 2026
Steve also prototyped using Jev + Kernel for fast browser use at jev-browser-use.val.run.
jev + kernel browser use demo
pretty freaking cool! so fast!
try it yourself: https://t.co/CoVFzscaa0 https://t.co/OyXdNA1H0F
One more from Steve: A Cerebras voice coder demo—
cerebras voice coder - this is realtime - no speedups!
the slow parts are me deciding what to change https://t.co/F2KivGifzj
Potluck made gmail-interactions to scan his email and keep his ducks in a row, where by ducks I mean CRM cards for email correspondence with Val Town customers. (The Val Town CRM is itself also on Val Town.)
Potluck also made Dustbound, a planning app for his burning man camp to coordinate rides, tents, slushie shifts, and whatnot.
Pete—I—put together abottom.org, an infosite for the word abottom, meaning “at the bottom,” an analogue of atop. (I know it’s silly, but I’m hoping to spread the word and eventually get it in the dictionary, so I invite you to use it!)
We—the Val Town team—also published an OpenRouter template val. It’s very easy to get an OpenRouter API key and try out hundreds of models.
We also migrated our official Val Town docs to a val and wrote about the docfooding process. This blog is also a val, and we have an older writeup about blogfooding.
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