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Trigger.dev Blog
Company blog · trigger.dev/blogprogrammingai
Trigger.dev Blog is the company blog at trigger.dev, writing about programming and ai. Since 2023, 21 different Hacker News readers have linked it 30 times, most often “Show HN: We built a developer-first open-source Zapier alternative”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Comments link trigger.dev mainly as a product: an open-source platform for background jobs and AI workflows, with its docs, guides and pricing page. The blog itself is barely referenced.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Trigger.dev is the open source platform for durable AI agents and workflows in TypeScript. Long-running tasks with retries, queues, and LLM observability.
Most-linked posts?
- /3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-02-09
- Show HN: We built a developer-first open-source Zapier alternative3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-02-01
- Trigger.dev v3: Durable Serverless functions. No timeouts2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-01-23
- How to write great cursor rules2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-03-28
- How we tamed Node.js event loop lag: a deepdive2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-06-28
What Hacker News says?
Trigger.dev (YC W23) | Senior Backend Engineer | Hybrid UK or Remote (EET to PST) | Full-time We are an open source developer platform for building and running managed workflows and AI agents, serving thousands of teams and handling hundreds of millions of executions per month. The role: Build SDK/platform features, backend systems, optimize database performance, create scalable APIs, implement monitoring solutions,…
Comment linking /careers/senior-backend-engineer
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2025)”Submitted Shai-Hulud compromised a dev machine and raided GitHub org access: a post-mortem as a story · 262 points
HN discussionwe built an execution engine ourselves https://github.com/simstudioai/sim/tree/main/apps/sim/execut... and for the infra for background jobs, we use https://trigger.dev/
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on “Show HN: Sim – Apache-2.0 n8n alternative”Submitted How we tamed Node.js event loop lag: a deepdive as a story · 40 points
HN discussionCongrats this is huge! I've been in the market looking for a tool like this and was curious to know how this compares against toolings such as Temporal ( https://temporal.io/product ) or Trigger.dev( https://trigger.dev/ ) ?
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on “Show HN: Inngest 1.0 – Open-source durable workflows on every platform”Submitted How to write great cursor rules as a story · 6 points
HN discussionFor sure, you can handle generating both images and text in the same workflow running multiple AI SDK operations in parallel or sequence, and then combine the outputs however you need for your PDFs. I'd recommend browsing our examples docs ( https://trigger.dev/docs/guides/introduction ) if you want to see different ways of using the AI SDK and converting / generating PDFs (React to PDF / Libreoffice, etc).
Comment linking /docs/guides/introduction
on “Launch HN: Trigger.dev (YC W23) – Open-source platform to build reliable AI apps”Submitted We built a real-time service that handles 20k updates per second as a story · 5 points
HN discussionAwesome 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 th…
Comment linking /docs/guides/example-projects/anchor-browser-web-scraper
on “Launch HN: Trigger.dev (YC W23) – Open-source platform to build reliable AI apps”Submitted Upgrading a 56TB database that's growing at 250GB/day with (nearly) no downtime as a story · 4 points
HN discussionWe support this but you do need to pass a public access token to your frontend so it's secure: https://trigger.dev/docs/realtime/react-hooks/triggering
Comment linking /docs/realtime/react-hooks/triggering
on “Launch HN: Trigger.dev (YC W23) – Open-source platform to build reliable AI apps”Submitted Trigger.dev v3: Durable Serverless functions. No timeouts as a story · 4 points
HN discussionWe’ve been using Algora at https://trigger.dev for a while now. Other than being great for bountying issues we’ve found it especially helpful for getting video walkthroughs of our onboarding created and improving our docs. Great product!
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on “Show HN: Algora – Open source coding bounties”Submitted Bringing Supabase to Trigger.dev as a story · 4 points
HN discussionConsidering that another open source alternative [0][1] was posted just a few days ago, how does this compare? [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34610686 [1] https://trigger.dev/
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on “Launch HN: Activepieces (YC S22) – Open-Source Zapier Alternative”Submitted Things we wish we'd known before building an AI chat agent as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI'm thrilled to announce the launch of my first open-source project and Hacker News post: JoblessDev! This platform is tailored for current CS students seeking internships and recent graduates looking for full-time roles, focusing on opportunities that require 0-3 years of experience. Here’s what makes JoblessDev stand out: Dynamic Search Capabilities: Easily filter job listings by terms, companies, and states. Time…
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on “JoblessDev: New Open-Source CS Job Platform for Students and Recent Grads”Submitted We tamed Node.js event loop lag: a deepdive as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWhile true, the free tier already comes with email support [1] so I'm not sure a $10/mo tier would have any impact in that respect? [1] https://trigger.dev/pricing
Comment linking /pricing
on “Show HN: We built a developer-first open-source Zapier alternative”Submitted Claude Code Tips You Didn't Know as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Skills: Teaching AI agents to act consistently as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted GovSignals is solving government procurement using Trigger.dev as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to write great Cursor Rules as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Trigger.dev v3: Durable Serverless functions. No timeouts as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Trigger.dev v2: a self-hostable background jobs framework for Next.js as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: We built a developer-first open-source Zapier alternative as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted We replaced Node.js with Bun for 5x throughput as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted We give every user SQL access to a shared ClickHouse cluster as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Self-hosting Trigger.dev v4 using Docker as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted From beta to 3.0: Trigger.dev v3 reaches GA as a story · 1 points
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