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\n Three live demos showing what Val Town enables for early-stage founders.\n Every URL on this page is a real, working serverless function deployed during this meeting.\n

Date: March 27, 2026

For: Justin Kang, Managing Partner

Platform: Val Town

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Live Demos

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\n Portfolio Pulse\n Live Data\n

\n Real-time HackerNews signals filtered and categorized across Visible Hands five thesis sectors.\n Tracks relevant trends for Spill, SignSpeak, Dollaride, Candoor, Hire Henry, and TANGApp.\n Data refreshes on every page load.\n

\n HN Algolia live feed\n 5 VH sectors\n Auto-categorized\n Portfolio named\n

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\n Founder Tools\n Interactive\n

\n A live webhook echo endpoint. POST to it and see your payload parsed in real time.\n Handles both GET and POST. Shows zero-infrastructure serverless in action with\n use cases mapped to each VH portfolio company.\n

\n Live webhook echo\n GET + POST\n Portfolio use cases\n No DevOps\n

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\n Val Power: Composability\n Unique to Val Town\n

\n A val that calls itself as an API, processes the JSON response, and renders both\n the code and live data in one page. Demonstrates val-to-val architecture\n and the modular backend pattern that lets founders move fast.\n

\n Val-to-val calls\n JSON + HTML modes\n Composable architecture\n Live server-side fetch\n

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Why Val Town for VH Portfolio

The fastest path from idea to live endpoint

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From code to live HTTPS endpoint

Infrastructure cost to start

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Composability: vals calling vals

\n Early-stage founders in the Visible Hands portfolio building for underrepresented communities\n need to move fast without getting stuck on DevOps. Val Town eliminates the infrastructure layer:\n write a function, get a URL, iterate in real time. Scheduled jobs, webhook receivers, API endpoints,\n AI pipelines, all in one place, free to start, scales as they grow.\n

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