Cool! This reminds of https://val.town
Oh, interesting! Thanks for that link, I hadn't managed to come across that when I was looking for existing alternatives.
I'm not sure I would have actually started building this if I knew that was an option. Hopefully their existence is telling me "there's a market, go for it" and not "there's already a better alternative, don't do it", heh. Though their pricing tiers really tells me I need to optimize my sandboxing. I don't think I can match those request limits at those prices just from the CPU cost of my per-request sandboxing overhead.
I actually think there's a lot of room in this space for other tools!
My first thought too!
I'm calling it a "Micro Functions as a Service" platform.
What it really is, is hosted Lua scripts that run in response to incoming HTTP requests to static URLs.
It's basically my version of the old https://webscript.io/ (that site is mostly the same as it was as long as you ignore the added SEO spam on the homepage). I used to subscribe to webscript and I'd been constantly missing it since it went away years ago, so I made my own.
I mostly just made this for myself, but since I'd put so much effort into it, I figure I'm going to try to put it out there and see if anyone wants to pay me to use it. Turns out there's a _lot_ of work that goes into abuse prevention when you're code from literally anyone on the internet, so it's not ready to actually take signups yet. But, there is a demo on the homepage.