<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jonahx</author><text>I assumed it was a play on &amp;quot;value town&amp;quot;?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ll add a +1 to praising your (sadly rare) ability to actually explain what your product does on your product&amp;#x27;s landing page.  I got it instantly from your tagline &amp;quot;If GitHub Gists could run And AWS Lambda were fun&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;I can see myself using this for one-off scripts and personal stuff.  Out of curiosity, is it intended for more than that as well?</text><parent_chain><item><author>stevekrouse</author><text>Great question! A val is a small snippet of JavaScript&amp;#x2F;TypeScript that runs on our servers. You can also schedule them.&lt;p&gt;We&amp;#x27;re trying to make a new kind of web primitive, like a Tweet or a Github repo, or more pointedly, like a Github Gist, but one that runs.</text></item><item><author>steinbring</author><text>Can someone define &amp;quot;val&amp;quot;? I don&amp;#x27;t think that I&amp;#x27;ve seen that, before.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Val Town Pro - $10/month for more compute, storage, private vals</title><url>https://www.val.town/pricing</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>meepmorp</author><text>I feel compelled to tell you that your website explains your product and what I might use it for incredibly well. It&amp;#x27;s a surprisingly rate trait in a service&amp;#x2F;product marketing site.</text><parent_chain><item><author>stevekrouse</author><text>Great question! A val is a small snippet of JavaScript&amp;#x2F;TypeScript that runs on our servers. You can also schedule them.&lt;p&gt;We&amp;#x27;re trying to make a new kind of web primitive, like a Tweet or a Github repo, or more pointedly, like a Github Gist, but one that runs.</text></item><item><author>steinbring</author><text>Can someone define &amp;quot;val&amp;quot;? I don&amp;#x27;t think that I&amp;#x27;ve seen that, before.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Val Town Pro - $10/month for more compute, storage, private vals</title><url>https://www.val.town/pricing</url></story>