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Inngest
Company blog · inngest.com/blog · on HN as tonyhbprogrammingweb
Inngest is the company blog at inngest.com, writing about programming and web. Since 2021, 28 different Hacker News readers have linked it 95 times, most often “Show HN: Inngest 1.0 – Open-source durable workflows on every platform”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (13) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers mostly mention inngest.com as a durable execution and workflow platform for background jobs and AI agents. The comments are product comparisons, job posts and references to its docs and blog, not judgments of the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 13 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Build reliable background jobs, workflows, and AI agents without extra infrastructure. Automatic retries, flow control, and step-level observability.
Most-linked posts?
- Show HN: Inngest 1.0 – Open-source durable workflows on every platform4 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2022-09-23
- Show HN: Inngest – Developer platform for background jobs and workflows3 people · 21 mentions · first linked 2021-08-19
- /2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-03-01
- Python errors as values: Comparing useful patterns from Rust and Go2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-11-09
- Evaluating trillions of event matches in real-time2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-05-16
- /docs/reference/functions/step-wait-for-event2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-07-12
- Building Webhooks That Scale2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-07-27
- You might not need a queue2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-09-28
- 5 Lessons Learned from Taking Next.js App Router to Production2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-05-08
- Every app you've built is an ETL pipeline2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-02-19
What Hacker News says?
The other day I asked chatgpt (o3) to help me compare a bunch of task orchestration systems and arrange them according to some variables I care about (popularity, feature richness, durability, whether can be self-hosted, etc.). I ended up using https://www.inngest.com/ -- which was new to me -- and that single tool sped up my particular task by at least 10x for the week. That was a one-off project, so it won't gener…
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on “Things that helped me get out of the AI 10x engineer imposter syndrome”Submitted Building a fair multi-tenant queuing system as a story · 176 points
HN discussionhttps://inngest.com and agentkit. disclaimer is I work on it. Does all of the event stuff and state stuff for you. Plus the orchestration.
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on “OpenAI adds MCP support to Agents SDK”Submitted Show HN: Inngest 1.0 – Open-source durable workflows on every platform as a story · 165 points
HN discussionI built https://www.inngest.com specifically because of healthcare flows. You should check it out, with the obvious disclaimer that I'm biased. Here's what you need: 1. Functions which allow you to declaratively sleep until a specific time, automatically rescheduling jobs ( https://www.inngest.com/docs/reference/functions/step-sleep-... ). 2. Declarative cancellation, which allows you to cancel jobs if the user resc…
Comment linking /docs/guides/cancel-running-functions
on “Show HN: Hatchet – Open-source distributed task queue”Submitted Queues Aren't the Right Abstraction as a story · 25 points
HN discussionYou might want to look at https://www.inngest.com for that. Disclaimer: I'm a cofounder. We released event-driven step functions about 20 months ago.
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on “Show HN: Hatchet – Open-source distributed task queue”Submitted Modern Serverless Job Schedulers as a story · 24 points
HN discussionInngest | San Francisco (preferred) + Remote https://www.inngest.com is a modern queueing/durable execution platform that allows all developers to ship fast, reliable code without managing infra, queues, or state. Our users write step functions in their existing codebase, and we handle the backend infra, queueing, scaling, concurrency, throttling, rate limiting, batching, o11y, and tracing for you. We're beginning t…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2024)”Submitted Sharding high-throughput Redis without downtime as a story · 18 points
HN discussionSomething like Inngest's multi-tenancy aware flow control should be table stakes for most complex products now: https://www.inngest.com/docs/guides/flow-control . Huge disclaimer here: I'm one of the founders. You should most definitely be able to set concurrency levels, throttling, rate limiting, etc. per your own tenant, in code, without having to mess around with creating independent queues or streams for users,…
Comment linking /docs/guides/flow-control
on “Visualizing algorithms for rate limiting”Submitted Debouncing in Queueing Systems: Optimizing Efficiency in Asynchronous Workflows as a story · 11 points
HN discussionInngest | San Francisco + Remote https://www.inngest.com is a modern queueing/durable execution platform that allows all developers to ship fast, reliable code without managing infra, queues, or state. Our users write step functions in their existing codebase, and we handle the backend infra, queueing, scaling, concurrency, throttling, rate limiting, batching, o11y, and tracing for you. We're beginning the hiring pr…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2024)”Submitted How we keep a noisy neighbor from starving your jobs at Inngest as a story · 7 points
HN discussionInngest ( https://www.inngest.com ) | Engineers, Marketing+GTM | Remote (US, San Francisco) | Full-time | $130-245k + equity Inngest is a developer platform that enables developers to build amazing, complex, and reliable products without the hassle of building and maintaining infrastructure. It combines modern orchestration, advanced multi-tenant aware queueing, and built-in observability packaged in an easy to lear…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2025)”Submitted Context engineering is just software engineering for LLMs as a story · 7 points
HN discussionInngest | 3 Engineer roles | Fully-remote Inngest is the reliability layer for modern applications. Inngest combines durable execution, events, and queues into a zero-infra platform with built-in observability. We're multi-cloud (host your code wherever you want!) and multi-language. Our product takes advanced-but-complicated reliability patterns and makes them simple to configure for any developer. We're a team of…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2024)”Submitted Evaluating trillions of event matches in real-time as a story · 7 points
HN discussionYes, but it doesn't actually matter. You can use pointers for models, return the same pointer, and it will re-render fine. We do this for our CLI at https://www.inngest.com for creating new serverless functions via a quick walkthrough. It's actually the `tea.Msg` that causes re-renders. Here's the code: https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea/blob/v0.20.0/tea.... . tea.Msg is, in Redux land, an "action" that trig…
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on “Bubble Tea: fun, functional and stateful way to build terminal apps”Submitted Adding a second middleware broke our TypeScript types as a story · 6 points
HN discussionInngest ( https://www.inngest.com ) | Engineers, Marketing+GTM | Remote (US, San Francisco) | Full-time | $130-245k + equity Inngest is a developer platform that enables developers to build amazing, complex, and reliable products without the hassle of building and maintaining infrastructure. It combines modern orchestration, advanced multi-tenant aware queueing, and built-in observability packaged in an easy to lear…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2025)”Submitted Node.js worker threads in production: what's easy, what's not as a story · 6 points
HN discussionInngest ( https://www.inngest.com ) | Engineers, Marketing+GTM | Remote (US, San Francisco) | Full-time | $130-245k + equity Inngest is a developer platform that enables developers to build amazing, complex, and reliable products without the hassle of building and maintaining infrastructure. It combines modern orchestration, advanced multi-tenant aware queueing, and built-in observability packaged in an easy to lear…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2025)”Submitted Building Webhooks That Scale as a story · 6 points
HN discussionThis is exactly what I'm working on at https://www.inngest.com . You can write statically typed workflows, run any code as an action (if it runs in a container, or use lambda otherwise), have complex conditionals, and coordinate between events (eg. pause until an event comes in that matches a condition, with TTL paths). There's a debugger to step-over workflows, and see the input/output as it happens. Coming soon, t…
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on “Automating a Software Company with GitHub Actions”Submitted Online vs. Offline AI Evals: When to Use Each as a story · 5 points
HN discussionRe Inngest - there are a few differences: 1. Hatchet is MIT licensed and designed to be self-hosted in production, with cloud as an alternative. While the Inngest dev server is open source, it doesn't support self-hosting: https://www.inngest.com/docs/self-hosting . 2. Inngest is built on an HTTP webhook model while Hatchet is built on a long-lived, client-initiated gRPC connection. While we support HTTP webhooks fo…
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on “Launch HN: Hatchet (YC W24) – Open-source task queue, now with a cloud version”Submitted Iteration is the new product moat as a story · 5 points
HN discussionChiming in as the founder of https://www.inngest.com . It looks like Hatchet is trying to catch up with us, though some immediate differences: * Inngest is fully event driven, with replays, fan-outs, `step.waitForEvent` to automatically pause and resume durable functions when specific events are received, declarative cancellation based off of events, etc. * We have real-time metrics, tracing, etc. out of the box in…
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on “Launch HN: Hatchet (YC W24) – Open-source task queue, now with a cloud version”Submitted Migrating long running workflows across clouds with zero downtime as a story · 5 points
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