# Val Town Prototype Showcase

[Canonical article](https://www.ashryan.io/writing/val-town-prototype-showcase/)

Published: 2025-05-21

A short note on building the Collxn prototype in Val Town and presenting it at the first Val Town Hall.

I’ve written about Val Town (a [few](https://www.ashryan.io/writing/youre-going-to-val-town/) [times](https://www.ashryan.io/writing/ai-powered-fun-in-p5-js/) [before](https://www.ashryan.io/writing/deploy-with-claude-ai-val-town/)). But it doesn’t seem I’ve ever mentioned that the prototype of [Collxn](https://www.collxn.com/?ref=ashryan.io) was written as a val.

I’m a huge fan of the service for rapid ideation and prototyping. For a hackers-and-painters developer, it’s really the best sense of idea-to-deploy freedom I’m aware of at the moment. [\[1\]](https://www.ashryan.io/writing/val-town-prototype-showcase/#fn1)

Today, at some point between **12pm–1pm EDT**, I’ll be showing off how the seed of Collxn came to be at the very first *Val Town Hall* event. Come check it out and get inspired to ship something fun today.

Details and signup: [https://town-hall.val.run/](https://town-hall.val.run/?ref=ashryan.io)

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1. In no small part, it might be because Val Town is not myopically focused on UI tricks for no-coders. [Backend is a first-class citizen](https://docs.val.town/?ref=ashryan.io). [↩︎](https://www.ashryan.io/writing/val-town-prototype-showcase/#fnref1)