Val Town Has a Free Serverless Platform — Deploy Functions From Your Browser

The Problem With Serverless in 2026 AWS Lambda: 47 clicks to deploy a function. Vercel: needs a git repo. Cloudflare Workers: requires wrangler CLI setup. You just want to run a function in the cloud. Right now. Val Town: Functions as a Social Network Val Town lets you write, run, and share serverless functions directly in your browser. No deploy step. No git. No CLI. Free Tier Unlimited vals (their name for functions) 10 seconds max execution time 10MB memory Built-in key-value store (SQLite) Cron scheduling included HTTP endpoints with instant URLs Write a Function in 30 Seconds Open val.town, type this: export default function ( req : Request ): Response { return Response . json ({ message : " Hello from Val Town! " , timestamp : new Date (). toISOString () }) } You immediately get a URL like https://username-functionname.web.val.run . Done. It is live. Why Developers Love It 1. No Deploy Step Save = Deploy. Every val gets an instant URL. Change the code, the URL serves the new vers