1. Sign up to Val Town (or replit, lovable, vercel, etc)
2. Vibe coding gets you super far in minutes
3. You need an API key for Browserbase, OpenAI, S3, etc...
4. You spend 5-45min creating an account, adding payment...
5. Only to find it's the wrong API! Try again!
6. 90% of the time of making a vibe-coded-app is getting API keys!

• Val Town Standard Library
  • OpenAI
  • Email
  • Blob
  • SQLite
  • IP-anonmyizer (discontinued)
• Twitter API proxy
• Clay API proxy
• Push users towards free APIs

1. Show up to any API with cold hard cash
2. Immediately send micropayments to try stuff out
3. Open protocol > closed app store

Created by Coinbase, supported by Stripe

Launched May 2025

1. Create a wallet
2. Add USDC
3. Make a payment
4. Accept a payment

• What about LLM payments where it can be variablea
• What about vms/storage/databases like ec2 or s3 or supabase?

1. Sign up to Val Town (or replit, lovable, vercel, etc)
2. Val Town creates for you (or imports) a crypto wallet
3. Val Town gives you some free pennies to play (but you can add more)
4. You vibe code an app in minutes, it uses half a dozen APIs
5. It works; the app is done. You never got any API keys.

1. We need more sellers on x402. Why isn't there a gold rush? Anyone can proxy any paid API onto here and make money.
2. We need to make the onramp easier. I know Stripe is working on it. Maybe "Login with Stripe" or "Login with Coinbase" could be helpful?

• What impact does this have on performance?
• Can we improve the performance by skipping the x402 step and simply showing up with payment that we know they'll ask for?
• Can we prepay or use escrow to improve performance?