@ycombinator: http://Trigger.dev lets developers add AI agents to their products with a simple SDK, handling execution, long-running …
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Trigger.dev raised $16M in Series A funding to expand its platform that enables developers to build and deploy reliable AI agents and workflows using a simple SDK. The Y Combinator-backed company highlights features like long-running task execution, real-time streaming, and programmatic checkpointing.
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http://Trigger.dev lets developers add AI agents to their products with a simple SDK, handling execution, long-running workflows, and reliability so they don’t have to. Over 90% of their usage now comes from agent workflows, and they recently announced their $16M Series A led by Standard Capital. In this episode of Founder Firesides, co-founders @mattaitken and @maverickdotdev sat down with YC’s @koomen to talk about three versions of the product before finding product market fit, how building async infrastructure for two years accidentally put them in the perfect position for the agent era, and why they think the future of computing is programmatic checkpoint and restore — freezing and resuming compute on demand.
Trigger.dev | Build and deploy fully-managed AI agents and workflows.
Source: https://trigger.dev/ Build production-ready AI agents with tool calling, automatic retries, and full observability. Use existing Node.js SDKs and code from your repo.
Trusted by developers at companies all over the world
How it works
Build invincible AI apps
Offload any long-running async AI tasks to our infrastructure. Create AI agents with human-in-the-loop functionality and stream responses directly to your frontend.
Deploy and scale to any size
Find and fix bugs fast
Alerts for errors
Get notified via email, Slack or webhooks when your tasks or deployments fail.
Advanced filtering
Find runs fast using advanced filtering options, then apply bulk actions to multiple tasks at once.
Versioning
Each deploy is an atomic version ensuring started tasks are not affected by code changes.
Bring your tasks to the foreground
Trigger.dev Realtime
Display the status of your tasks anywhere in your app
Show the run status (in progress, completed, failed) and metadata to provide real-time, contextual information for your users as your tasks progress.
Realtime docs Update your UI in real-timewith the run status
Realtime streams
Stream LLM responses from your runs to your users
Forward streams from any provider through our Realtime API. Build AI agents with tools and context from your runs.
Realtime streams docs Pipe streams to your frontendfrom your runs
True runtime freedom for developers
Unlike restricted runtimes, Trigger.dev lets you freely customize every aspect of your build process, resulting bundle, and final container image.
Python
Execute Python scripts with automatic package installation through requirements.txt
Prisma
Copy files to the build directory, generate the Prisma client, migrate databases, and more.
Puppeteer
Automate browser capabilities and control web pages.
esbuild
Add custom esbuild plugins to your build process.
FFmpeg
Add FFmpeg binaries to your project during build time, enabling video manipulation tasks.
apt-get
Easily install any system packages you need, from libreoffice to git
additionalPackages
Add additional packages which aren’t automatically included via imports.
audioWaveform
Produce visual renderings of audio using waveform data.
Custom build extensions
Integrate custom tooling and project-specific requirements directly into your build pipeline.
All the tools you need to ship
Development
Production
Observability
Reliable by default
Works with your existing tech stack…
We love open source.Trigger.dev is Apache 2.0 licensed so you can view the source code, contribute and self-host.
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Build and deploy your first task in 3 mins with no timeouts and no infrastructure to manage.
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