Val Town winds down, with all services ending on 10 January 2027

Val Town winds down, with all services ending on 10 January 2027

10 November 2026: Val Town, a hosted platform for running small JavaScript and TypeScript programs, scheduled jobs and web endpoints, is shutting down. Founder Steve Krouse wrote on 10 November that the company could not compete in cloud computing, and that every service will stop on 10 January 2027.

The four dates

• 10 November 2026: new signups and plan upgrades end.
• 10 December 2026: read-only mode. Code can no longer be changed, but SQLite and blob storage are excluded from this step.
• 10 January 2027: all other services end.
• 1 February 2027: Val Town is released as open source.

Billing paused on 10 November and existing subscriptions continue free until the end. Customers who prepaid for an annual plan will get a partial refund; the post does not give a formula.

Moving the work elsewhere

Krouse points users to migration guides for four platforms: Cloudflare, Vercel, Netlify and Render. "There are many wonderful hosting providers you can migrate to," he writes, adding that language models are good at this kind of migration. Support is available at support@val.town and on Discord.

The read-only date is the one that matters for anything in production. From 10 December a team cannot fix or redeploy a function that breaks, so a val that a business depends on, such as a webhook receiver, a cron job that sends reports, or an endpoint behind a form, should be moved before then rather than before January.

Data to take out first

The post separates code from data. SQLite databases and blob storage are left out of the December read-only step, and the post does not say what happens to them on that date or how either can be exported. A team holding customer records or files there should plan the export alongside the code migration and check which of the four suggested hosts offers a matching database and object store.

Webhook URLs and custom domains pointed at Val Town endpoints will also need updating at the sending side, which is easy to miss when the code itself has moved.

Four years, ending in open source

The post thanks a team of about a dozen and investor Dan Levine, and closes four years of the service. The promise to open-source the platform on 1 February 2027 means teams could, in principle, run their own copy, but the licence and what will be included have not yet been announced.

Sources

• Val Town: Val Town is winding down, by Steve Krouse, 10 November 2026, 10 November 2026