Steve Krouse

About

Steve Krouse smiling in a café

I’m Steve Krouse. I live in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, and build Val Town.

I founded the Future of Coding podcast and community, and The Coding Space after-school program. Before that, I worked at Looker and First Round Capital.

I was born in New York City and raised in South Florida. I studied computer science at Penn for three semesters.

Projects

  • 2026–nowLegibility
  • 2022–nowDate Me Directory — a directory of date-me docs
  • 2022–nowVal Town — write and deploy code in the cloud
  • 2022Zaplib — a Rust/Wasm framework for fast web apps
  • 2021–2022Compose — a startup exploring a more integrated web stack
  • 2019Whole Code Catalog — reviews of programming tools and environments
  • 2017–2019Future of Coding — the podcast and community I founded
  • 2017–2019Research log — notes from my Future of Coding research
  • 2016WoofJS — a JavaScript framework for learning to code
  • 2015–2017The Coding Space — an after-school program for learning to code