Talk of the Town - October 2026 OpenAI Head of Realtime Justin Uberti published hello-live.val.run, a Val Town demo of a GPT-Live voice agent reachable by web or by calling 425-800-0073, with customization handled in routes/agent.ts. The October 2026 "Talk of the Town" roundup also featured Jim Nielsen's analytics-cron val, which persists Netlify web analytics data into SQLite before Netlify deletes it after 30 days, and Arber Xhindoli's two Canonry vals for testing a brand's AEO: a brand perception check and an AI visibility check. Talk of the Town is our series highlighting neat public vals in userspace. Community vals Justin Uberti https://x.com/juberti , Head of Realtime at OpenAI, made hello-live.val.run https://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 https://x.com/juberti/status/2098263283182817465?ref src=twsrc%5Etfw Justin is a recurring friend of the town see: March https://blog.val.town/talk-of-the-town-mar-2026 , May https://blog.val.town/talk-of-the-town-may-26 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 https://www.val.town/x/valdottown/hello-gemini-live . Jim Nielsen https://www.jim-nielsen.com/ wrote an analytics-cron https://www.val.town/x/jimniels/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. blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/preserv... \ image or embed\ https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ln6p42mckoylrkcd3ds6b7vv/post/3mvh6532h7s2z?ref src=embed @jim-nielsen.com https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ln6p42mckoylrkcd3ds6b7vv?ref src=embed September 13, 2026 at 11:28 PM https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ln6p42mckoylrkcd3ds6b7vv/post/3mvh6532h7s2z?ref src=embed Luis Gabriel https://luisgabriel.online/ published a Youtube RSS feed val, using Codex and the Val Town agent plugin. He wrote a great blog post about it https://luisgabriel.online/posts/youtube-rss-feed-grabber , 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 https://canonry.ai/ , made two vals for testing your brand’s AEO https://blog.val.town/aeo on Val Town: a brand perception check https://www.val.town/x/canonry/Brand-Perception-Check and an AI visibility check https://www.val.town/x/canonry/AI-Visibility-Check . Charlie also interviewed Arber https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44h6 jjW62o about AEO as part of his “Charlie learns AEO in public for Val Town” series. Owen Christofferson https://www.val.town/u/owenchristofferson made a tiny transit info website, grand-perkins.val.run https://grand-perkins.val.run/ , for presumably his stop in Oakland. A val can be a home-cooked meal https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-cooked-app/ . On the topic of home-cooked transit apps, Jonathan Blanchard https://www.val.town/u/jpblanchard made a street cleaning parking map for Park Slope, Brooklyn: parkslope-parking.val.run https://parkslope-parking.val.run/ . And one more— Kirill Maltsev https://www.kirillmaltsev.net/ 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 https://nicobaier.com/ made example-domain.val.run https://example-domain.val.run/ , a canonical .val.run example URL, in the spirit of IANA’s example.com https://example.com . Nico also created a Lorem Ipsum API https://www.val.town/x/nbbaier/lorem-ipsum at lipsum.val.run https://lipsum.val.run/ , which I am waiting for an excuse to use One paragraph curl https://lipsum.val.run/p Three paragraphs curl https://lipsum.val.run/p/3 One sentence curl https://lipsum.val.run/s Five sentences curl https://lipsum.val.run/s/5 Nico is a prolific https://www.val.town/u/nbbaier 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 https://github.com/winrid/ , creator of FastComments https://fastcomments.com/ , built a blog-with-comments https://www.val.town/x/fastcomments/blog-with-comments demo val and contributed a FastComments integration guide https://docs.val.town/guides/fastcomments to our docs. If your agent is integrating FastComments in a val, it can refer to agent skills on fastcomments-skills.val.run https://fastcomments-skills.val.run/ . Fabian Iwand https://mootari.de/ asked Townie to make a Commitfest-to-RSS val https://www.val.town/x/mootari/cf-rss 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. https://paulchinjr.com/ made a “cute feed of animals skateboarding,” available for your viewing pleasure at the cleverly named boardmembers.val.run https://boardmembers.val.run/ . Paul is vibing all sorts of Fun Software on Val Town, like his glamstrum https://www.val.town/x/pchinjr/glamstrum site “Webcam air guitar. Big hair. Bigger riffs.” and firstpage.val.run https://firstpage.val.run/ “A 20-minute HTML website maker for kids” . Mariano Guerra https://marianoguerra.org/ vibe coded his own coding agent https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJOE EuyRTY for Val Town-specific code. Derek Ahmedzai https://cheersderek.com/ made a Letterboxd heartbeat https://x.com/derekahmedzai/status/2087471361572663417 visualization that you can try at letterboxd-heartbeat.cheersderek.com https://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 https://x.com/hashtag/letterboxdheartbeat?src=hash&ref src=twsrc%5Etfw https://t.co/BIT6mXJdec https://t.co/BIT6mXJdec pic.twitter.com/GYQtUzMXJd https://t.co/GYQtUzMXJd August 12, 2026 https://x.com/derekahmedzai/status/2087471361572663417?ref src=twsrc%5Etfw Frank van Puffelen https://puf.io/ used Codex to create a goodreads-bookhive-sync https://www.val.town/x/puf/goodreads-bookhive-sync val that automatically syncs his GoodReads updates to BookHive. Ozan Öğreden https://ozan.ogreden.com/ made org-publish https://www.val.town/x/cricks unmixed4u/org-publish live at org-publish.val.run https://org-publish.val.run/about for publishing plain text files from Emacs or Neovim. jellyj https://www.val.town/u/jellyj created everyone-red-button.val.run https://everyone-red-button.val.run/ . It reminds me of The Reddit Button