This is sad. We're in a similar space as Val Town (which technically made us competitors) but I've always appreciated the care they had for the craft and the values they drove forward as a company like their transparency (even their investor updates were public).

Steve and Tom also individually have some of the best blogs out on the web.

I wish them all the best with whatever comes next. I'm pretty sure they'll all do great things.

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alizainf an hour ago | parent | next [-]

whoa - we're building something very similar. i scheduled some time with you.

very much agree that I've been inspired by val.town's craft

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swyx 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

well.. how does his decision affect how you feel about the space you're in?

	▲	yakkomajuri 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Fair question! We're a much younger company and thus more malleable. Val Town was started basically pre-AI and had early traction that might have locked it into its path a little bit. We're still figuring things out and this announcement is yet another data point about the simplified infra for devs space maybe not being very promising but most of our customers at the moment are actually non-technical teams who have struggled to use anything else. You could argue in some ways Val Town was tangentially in the same space as Lovable & Co and those companies are still going strong. I think there's real signal in this announcement but it's also hard to derive general lessons for a whole market from a single company given how many variables come into play.
	▲	threecheese 6 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I can't tell if you're mentoring, trolling, seeing an opportunity, or are genuinely curious. A man of (waves hand in front of face) MySTeRY