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stevekrouse
09/08/2022, 1:33 PM👋 hey guys! I’ve been working on a new project & I’d love your feedback. Lmk if you get a chance to try it out, read the docs, make something cool, have thoughts. Really appreciate it! 💗
Val Town is a collaborative notebook for APIs, for building integrations between different APIs, exposing your own endpoints with a single click, etc. I think the FoC community will enjoy 1) the global namespace where you can @reference friend's values, 2) using a database to store functions and values side-by-side, and 3)
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Pasha Sadri
09/08/2022, 4:53 PMI love the idea of shared variables that I can remix into my own code. I have played around with a similar concept in the past — one thing I struggled with was versioning. If my var is used by others and I changed it, what happens?
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stevekrouse
09/08/2022, 4:55 PMGreat question! I have rudimentary versions in the product already but no real way to access them. The plan is to encourage people to refer to pinned versions
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Pasha Sadri
09/08/2022, 5:05 PMif you control the IDE, you could render the val mentions specially. perhaps highlight them if there is a new version available. and/or a drop down that lists other versions. bonus points if it lets me run my code with those versions before picking one.
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stevekrouse
09/08/2022, 5:06 PMExactly, great ideas!
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Pasha Sadri
09/08/2022, 5:14 PMDuh - just noticed you already dealt with versions in the docs 🙂
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Yousef El-Dardiry
09/10/2022, 3:38 PMThis looks exciting @stevekrouse! Some cool features in there, and I like the approach of “vals” as first class citizen. The collaboration modal is a bit similar to what I’m trying to do with TypeCell. Keep up the good work!
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stevekrouse
09/10/2022, 5:23 PMTypecell is cool too!
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Kartik Agaram
09/17/2022, 4:27 AMOk, this example really speaks to me: https://val-town.notion.site/Get-notified-when-legends-post-to-HN-Tutorial-1043362a6d5f43b0a3446f8f1b6c491b
I've long wanted follow for HN. (I even built it for a time: http://akkartik.name/hackerstream, though this slideshow doesn't mention following)
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stevekrouse
10/14/2022, 4:30 PM"follow for HN" is a great way to put it!!!
"follow button for HN", it could even be a chrome extension