What can I make with Val Town?
Val Town can be anything from a TypeScript playground to a personal automation tool, or the basis for a web API.
Your first cron val
quickstart
Tutorial on scheduling recurring code execution
Your first website val
quickstart
Tutorial on making a simple website
Twitter alerts
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Track Twitter mentions and be alerted via email
Air quality
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Get email alerts when the air quality is bad. Val created with much help from @russbiggs
Render HTML
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Use an HTTP val to return HTML pages.
RSS Notification
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Your own RSS feed. Just create a list of the blogs you want to follow.
Uptime monitor
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Check if your website (or any website) is down.
Stripe subscription notification
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Sends a Discord message for new Stripe subscriptions
Bitcoin price alert
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Get an email when Bitcoin price changes more than 20%
Stale PRs
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Get emails with the open PRs that have't had any activity.
Save HTML Form Data
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Submit forms to Val Town
Generate PDFs
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Generate PDFs using val functions by using an external library like jsPDF
Discord stand-up bot
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Every weekday send a message to our team's Discord channel to start a stand-up thread
Umbrella reminder
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Sends an email reminding to bring an umbrella if there's rain in the forecast