trigger.dev
Reduces engineering overhead for orchestrating multi-step AI workflows and agents by handling deployment, scaling, and execution management, letting teams fo…
Trigger.dev is an open-source platform for building AI agents and background workflows in TypeScript. You write tasks in your codebase with its SDK and deploy them to the Trigger.dev cloud or a self-hosted instance, getting long-running execution without timeouts, retries, queues, human-in-the-loop waitpoints, and full tracing. It is a developer platform with its own SDK and dashboard — not a Claude skill you install into Claude Code.
- Trigger multi-step AI workflows from webhook events with built-in retry logic
- Schedule recurring tasks (data syncs, report generation) without cron infrastructure
- Fan-out parallel job execution across thousands of items with automatic backpressure
Reduces engineering overhead for orchestrating multi-step AI workflows and agents by handling deployment, scaling, and execution management, letting teams focus on business logic rather than infrastructure.
Platform engineering teams building event-driven AI systems or background job pipelines at scale.
https://github.com/triggerdotdev/trigger.dev
By triggerdotdev
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- Show HN: We built a developer-first open-source Zapier alternative — Hacker News · 745 pts
- Show HN: Trigger.dev V2 – a Temporal alternative for TypeScript devs — Hacker News · 172 pts
- Launch HN: Trigger.dev (YC W23) – Open-source platform to build reliable AI apps — Hacker News · 162 pts
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Reviewer notes
Reviewed review. These are observations, not a security certification.
Auto-assessment from April sweep — baseline scores pending hands-on review.
2026-04-18: Approved in April sweep: Mega-popular, battle-tested by a large community.
Things to check
- Cloud pricing scales with job volume and execution time. Self-hosting is available via Docker Compose or Kubernetes (official Helm chart) if you want to avoid the managed platform. This is a TypeScript developer platform with its own SDK, not a Claude Code skill or plugin.
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