Val Town is winding down: read-only on 10 December, everything off on 10 January

Val Town, the service for writing and hosting small JavaScript and TypeScript programs called vals, is shutting down. Founder Steve Krouse announced the wind-down on 10 November, saying the company “couldn’t compete in the cloud computing space”.

The timeline

Date	What stops
10 November 2026	New signups and plan upgrades
10 December 2026	Read-only mode (SQLite and blob storage not included)
10 January 2027	All other services
1 February 2027	Val Town is open-sourced

Billing is paused as of 10 November, and existing subscriptions keep running for free. Annual prepaid plans get a partial refund. Val Town says read-only mode does not include SQLite and blob storage, which stay as they are until 10 January. It does not spell out whether vals keep running during that month, so plan as if they might not.

Where to go

Val Town has written migration guides for Cloudflare, Vercel, Netlify and Render, linked from the post. Krouse notes that “today’s LLMs are great at these types of migrations”, which is a reasonable shortcut for small vals: hand an agent the code and the target platform’s docs, then test each endpoint by hand. Support is at [email protected] and on Discord.

Why this matters

Vals tend to be the glue nobody remembers: a cron job, a webhook, a small API behind a Slack bot. List every val you own, note which ones store data in SQLite or blob storage, and export that data before 10 January, because that is when it goes. It follows other recent wind-downs we have covered, such as Chroma Cloud and Google’s Jules, and the lesson is the same: keep an export path for anything you host on a small platform.