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Zambyte • today at 6:37 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

It seems like everyone here knows what this is but me. I went to their homepage and I still can't tell what this is. How is this different from just giving your agent access to one of the many hosting services CLIs / MCPs? Did they just pioneer that?


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efficax • today at 6:41 PM

val.town was built mostly pre-LLMs and it was basically lightweight typescript functions as a service. i thought they were doing ok, so i'm a bit surprised by this, but i do admit that I only ever used them for some throwaway toys

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swyx • today at 7:49 PM

search hn, theyve ranked very highly consistently over the years

jujube3 • today at 7:14 PM

It's like var town but it's not mutable.

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