Val Town raises seed round.
I love the idea behind Val Town: it hosts serverless functions for simple APIs or scheduled tasks. I use it to scrape my local council’s waste collection page and return an ICS file that I can subscribe to from my calendar app so that I know which colour bin is being collected on which day.
I need to think up other little uses for it.
I went to @GrowableMeetups’ Serverless talks at @CazooUK this week. I find real-world examples much more compelling than theory, and @bob_the_mighty’s and Scott’s stories of rapid scalability and what can be built with small teams were very impressive. twitter.com…