Val Town Has a Free Serverless Script Platform — Write and Deploy Functions in Seconds

Val Town is a social programming platform — write TypeScript functions in your browser and they're instantly deployed as APIs.

What You Get for Free (Free Tier)

• Unlimited vals — write as many functions as you want
• Instant deploy — save = deploy, no CI/CD needed
• HTTP endpoints — every function gets a URL
• Cron jobs — schedule functions to run on intervals
• Email handling — receive and process emails with code
• Blob storage — persistent key-value storage
• SQLite — built-in database per account
• npm packages — import any npm package, no install needed
• Secrets — encrypted environment variables

Quick Start

// This is a val — it's already deployed!
export default function(req: Request): Response {
  return Response.json({
    message: "Hello from Val Town!",
    time: new Date().toISOString()
  })
}
// Live at: https://username-functionName.web.val.run

Why Developers Switch from AWS Lambda

Lambda requires IAM, API Gateway, CloudFormation, and 15 minutes of config:

• Zero config — write code, it's live
• Browser IDE — no local setup, no deploy step
• Social — fork and remix other people's vals
• Free SQLite — no RDS/DynamoDB setup needed

A developer needed a webhook endpoint for Stripe. On Lambda: 45 minutes (IAM, API Gateway, deploy). On Val Town: 2 minutes — paste code, copy URL, done.

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