Hello! We at Val Town have spent the last couple months redesigning our product around a new core primitive: Val Town Projects.<p>Why: Our prior core primitive, a "val", was too small. A val is just a single hosted JavaScript file. Users kept bumping up against rough edges managing lots of disparate vals.<p>What: A Val Town Project is a group of vals, files, and folders, versioned collectively. They support branches, forks, and merges.<p>How: We made the sacrilegious decision to <i>not</i> build on git. We instead built a simplified system that works directly in our postgres database.<p>Our dream is that Val Town Projects will unlock a new kind of collaboration, and we hope you all make amazing things with it!
Hey, I worked on this. I am the person who advocated for us not to use git and build our own thing instead. Happy to answer any questions or expound on my hopes and regrets!