Val Town

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Val Town sells a platform for running small pieces of code at a live URL, with storage, scheduling and serverless execution built in. It is used by developers and operators automating things quickly, including teams at OpenAI, Anthropic, Shopify and Google.

##signals 03

September 2026
- Val Town ships two-line OAuth login via DCR and CIMD (opens in a new tab)
  
  09-03 Release blog.val.town ↗ (opens in a new tab)
  
  Val Town shipped `std/oauth`, a middleware that adds "Login with Val Town" in two lines of code.
- Names a three-step framework for optimizing docs for agents (opens in a new tab)
  
  09-02 Practice blog.val.town ↗ (opens in a new tab)
  
  Val Town engineer Pete Millspaugh argues docs pages now work as long.
August 2026
- Rebuilt its docs on its own platform, and named the DX cost (opens in a new tab)
  
  08-12 News blog.val.town ↗ (opens in a new tab)
  
  Val Town moved its docs off Astro and Cloudflare onto Val Town itself — server-rendered, no build step.

##examples 01

Val Town dogfoods its docs and prices the trade

blog blog.val.town ↗ (opens in a new tab)

A dogfooding migration that names its own cost — priorities ranked UX over AX over DX.