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Trigger.dev

Trigger.dev is the open source platform for building AI agents and workflows in TypeScript. Long-running tasks with retries, queues, full observability, and elastic scaling. Previously, the founders built JSON Hero, an open source JSON viewer that is currently used by more than 35k developers a month. Eric was CTO of Code School, an early code learning platform that was acquired in 2015. Matt created two iPad apps that won Apple’s App of the Year.

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Y Combinator
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Trigger.dev is the open source platform for building AI agents and workflows in TypeScript. Long-running tasks with retries, queues, full observability, and elastic scaling. Previously, the founders built JSON Hero, an open source JSON viewer that is currently used by more than 35k developers a month. Eric was CTO of Code School, an early code learning platform that was acquired in 2015. Matt created two iPad apps that won Apple’s App of the Year.

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Trigger.dev is classified as AI agents from source descriptions and fund-directory context. Similar companies below are ranked from offline product facets and meaningful description overlap; category and source affiliation can only strengthen an existing product match. For lookup-created rows, the profile starts as pending enrichment until deeper source collection runs.

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TypeScriptJSON HeroTrigger.develastic scalingfull observabilityqueues
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Local clusters rerank extracted product concepts and description terms. The generated graph remains the fallback for sparse descriptions: offline reciprocal product-similarity graph: extracted concepts + description terms + bounded category/affiliation boosts. Minimum fallback score: 0; max competitors: 6.

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Companies similar to Trigger.dev

AI agents · 6 peers

A deterministic local cluster built from offline product facets and meaningful description terms. Category and selected-institution affiliation provide bounded tie-breaks. Open any peer to continue exploring its cluster.

Windmill

match 84

Windmill is an open-source developer platform that turns scripts into workflows, internal tools, and full-stack apps. Write scripts in Python, TypeScript, Go, Bash, Rust, SQL - Windmill auto-generates UIs from their parameters, handles dependencies, credentials, permissions, and scheduling so you focus on business logic, not infra. Open-source alternative to Airflow, Temporal, Retool and n8n. Chain scripts into flows with branching, parallelism, retries. Build dashboards with the app builder. Tr

shared extracted concepts: typescript; shared product terms: workflow, typescript, retrie, full; shared product theme: workflow automation, developer infrastructure, open source and local first; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Parse

match 70

Parse offers cloud-based software developer kits that enable users to create apps for desktop, mobile, and embedded devices. Its product portfolio is comprised of Parse Core to save data in the cloud; make the app social; run custom app code in the Parse Cloud; schedule recurring tasks such as sending engagement emails, updating data, and long running computation; share data between platforms; and get a local datastore and Parse dashboard. The company also provides Parse Push for creating, sched

shared product terms: developer, apps, app, code; shared product theme: developer infrastructure; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

OpenProse

match 59

OpenProse is building open-source infrastructure for long-running AI work: a declarative language plus the Reactor harness/runtime for reliable agent workflows. Our organic open-source traction (7k+ installs) has already translated into a customer at a medical research lab, starting with a $10k pilot set to roll into a $10k/month contract. YC recruited us into the current batch and we've since hired two senior founding team members (ex-Google, Forbes 30u30 harness engineer). All three founding t

shared product terms: long, runn, workflow, month; shared product theme: workflow automation, developer infrastructure, open source and local first; same category: AI agents; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

21st

match 59

21st.dev is the largest React component registry for AI applications, used by 2M developers (370K MAU). We provide the building blocks to create AI agents and agent-powered apps: UI components, agent templates, and an SDK with built-in UI, tools, memory, observability, and managed infrastructure.

shared extracted concept terms: observability; shared product terms: dev, used, developer, apps; shared product theme: developer infrastructure; same category: AI agents; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Hyrex

match 57

Hyrex is a task orchestration framework that uses PostgreSQL (or Hyrex Cloud) as a durable task queue. Define tasks in Python or TypeScript, send them to be processed asynchronously, and let Hyrex handle the rest. Hyrex tasks are COLD: Controllable, Observable, Large-Scale, and Durable!

shared extracted concepts: typescript; shared product terms: task, queue, typescript; shared product theme: workflow automation, developer infrastructure; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

StackMachine

match 56

Stack Machine is a developer tools company based in San Francisco, CA since May 2013. We enable a full-stack understanding of an organizations's codebases and developer environments. Our founders have years of experience running large-scale web services.

shared extracted concept terms: full; shared product terms: developer, full, founder, year; shared product theme: developer infrastructure; shared affiliation: Y Combinator