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Launch HN: Trigger.dev (YC W23) – Open-source platform to build reliable AI apps

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Re: Launch HN: Trigger.dev (YC W23) – Open-source platform to build reliable AI apps

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Post by jmarbach »

Awesome product! Although Trigger.dev is fully capable, if you want to skip installing the browser infra and offload it to a remote session, I wrote a tutorial recently on how to use Anchor Browser with Trigger.dev to achieve this: - https://trigger.dev/docs/guides/example-projects/anchor-brow... - https://anchorbrowser.io/blog/integrate-trigger-dev-and-anch...

Looking forward to tracking Trigger.dev's success in the future.

Re: Launch HN: Trigger.dev (YC W23) – Open-source platform to build reliable AI apps

#54

Post by all2 »

jedberg wrote: post #42
dennisy wrote: post #38

The platform looks great! However I do personally really dislike that everyone is either marketing themselves or has truly pivoted to AI agents… This seems like a great platform to run any type of tasks.

> However I do personally really dislike that everyone is either marketing themselves or has truly pivoted to AI agents… I'm the CEO of a direct competitor to trigger, and we're in the same boat. What we make is great for any type of workflow, but our investors are pushing us hard to frame it as AI agents. FWIW, more than 1/2 of our customers are AI agents, so it does make sense. But you're right, it's great for all…

I'm curious what product you ship for workflows? I'm looking at pushing out a workflow engine in the near future and it is interesting to me to see what other people are doing.

Re: Launch HN: Trigger.dev (YC W23) – Open-source platform to build reliable AI apps

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Post by jedberg »

all2 wrote: post #54
jedberg wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> However I do personally really dislike that everyone is either marketing themselves or has truly pivoted to AI agents… I'm the CEO of a direct competitor to trigger, and we're in the same boat. What we make is great for any type of workflow, but our investors are pushing us hard to frame it as AI agents. FWIW, more than 1/2 of our customers are AI agents, so it does make sense. But you're right, it's great for all…

I'm curious what product you ship for workflows? I'm looking at pushing out a workflow engine in the near future and it is interesting to me to see what other people are doing.

Out of respect for my competitor's Launch HN, I don't want to say here, but if you look at my profile or google my username it won't be hard to find. :)

Re: Launch HN: Trigger.dev (YC W23) – Open-source platform to build reliable AI apps

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Post by georgeofjungle7 »

This is really cool — the snapshotting approach with CRIU feels like the missing piece that serverless was never able to solve cleanly. Being able to “pause” work across long waits without hacks is huge. Curious how you see this stacking up against Temporal or LangGraph — feels like you’re aiming at the same pain points but from a more infra-first angle.

Re: Launch HN: Trigger.dev (YC W23) – Open-source platform to build reliable AI apps

#57

Post by plastic_bag »

I'm very interested in trying this out for my side project. I'm using Vercel's AI SDK to generate content and images to create PDFs but getting it to output both images and text in the same generateObject call feels almost impossible.

Is it something that Trigger can do?

Re: Launch HN: Trigger.dev (YC W23) – Open-source platform to build reliable AI apps

#58

Post by raooll »

Big fan of Trigger.dev here

We’ve been using it for a while and I’m a super happy customer. The scheduled task feature has been a lifesaver—super simple and just works exactly as expected. Also want to call out the Dev mode: it’s an absolute gem, makes testing and iterating so much smoother than anything else I’ve tried.

Really appreciate the thoughtfulness that’s gone into the product—excited to see the upcoming MicroVM + checkpointing work land!

Re: Launch HN: Trigger.dev (YC W23) – Open-source platform to build reliable AI apps

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Post by typpilol »

raooll wrote: post #58

Big fan of Trigger.dev here We’ve been using it for a while and I’m a super happy customer. The scheduled task feature has been a lifesaver—super simple and just works exactly as expected. Also want to call out the Dev mode: it’s an absolute gem, makes testing and iterating so much smoother than anything else I’ve tried. Really appreciate the thoughtfulness that’s gone into the product—excited to see the upcoming Mic…

This seems like a blatant AI comment
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