Inngest – Developer platform for background jobs and workflows

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Inngest – Developer platform for background jobs and workflows

Hi HN! We’re Dan and Tony - founders of Inngest ( https://www.inngest.com/ ). Inngest is a developer platform and toolchain for developing, testing and running background jobs, and workflows. Inngest invokes your jobs via HTTP, wherever you want to deploy your code. Shipping reliable background jobs and workflows is a time suck for any software team. They’re painful to develop locally and getting into production is a tedious experience of configuring infra. When you want to add scheduling, orchestrate multi-step workflows or handle concurrency or idempotency, you spend even more time building bespoke systems - not your actual product. Software engineers spend a ton of duplicated effort building and rebuilding this at every company. It shouldn’t be this way. We’ve taken our experience building and scaling reliable, secure queueing systems across Healthcare, B2B SaaS, and developer infra companies. With Inngest, we sought out to create a single platform and set of developer tools to unburden the developer. - You write functions alongside your API, in your existing codebase with our simple SDK. We invoke your functions via HTTPS, so there are no additional worker services to setup. - End-to-end local development, with one command. Our dev server runs Inngest on any machine with a web interface to visualize, debug, and test your functions with zero additional dependencies. - Our serverless queue calls you, so you can run your code anywhere - serverless, servers or edge. - Inngest manages state across functions and long-running workflows for you. We handle retries, concurrency, idempotency, and coordinating parallel and sequential workloads out-of-the-box. We’ve helped users like: - Snaplet.dev uses Inngest to handle the lifecycle of managing preview databases for their developer platform. - Ocoya.com re-build their e-commerce and social media scheduling workflows in days while dramatically simplifying their infra to run solely with Inngest + serverless functions. - Secta.ai uses Inngest to run all of their AI image generation models on GPU-optimized instances. Today, we have a TypeScript SDK and we will expand to other languages soon (Go is next). We’re building in the open on Github and we offer usage-based plans with a generous free tier. We’re excited to share this with HN and we’re eager for your feedback! What are your experiences building systems for background jobs and workflows?