Create background jobs directly in your codebase with features like API integrations, webhooks, scheduling and delays. 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.
Matt Aitken is the CEO of Trigger.dev, a developer tool that makes creating automation workflows a great experience in your codebase. He's a programmer who previously created two iPad apps that went on to win Apple's iPad app of the year award. He's worked on several startups including building JSON Hero, a popular developer tool.
Eric Allam is the founder and CTO of Trigger.dev, the developer-first open source Zapier Alternative. He's previously co-founded CodeSchool.com and works on JSON Hero, a popular developer tool.
Co-founder of Trigger.dev; the background jobs framework for Typescript, and JSON Hero.
James is the founder and frontend engineer of Trigger.dev, a developer tool for creating background jobs in code. Previously he was a product lead at a number of VC backed startups. He also built JSON Hero, a popular developer tool.
🔥 TL;DR Trigger.dev is an open source platform that enables developers to effortlessly create event-driven background tasks directly in their codebase – for example, when a Stripe payment fails, open a Linear issue and send an email to yourself, or easily create a drip email campaign. Write workflows using our SDK, and view a detailed history of all runs in our web app.
Hey! We’re Matt, Dan, James and Eric, the founders of Trigger.dev.
Trigger.dev makes it easy to create workflows in response to API events (webhooks), on a schedule or on-demand by sending your own events.
All of this lives in code alongside everything else in your codebase. We handle API authentication with external services, allowing more time to be spent writing functional code, rather than dealing with credentials. We also support long delays of up to a year that survive your server restarting.
All workflow runs can be viewed in our web app providing great observability for debugging.
It’s clear from our launch and customers that developers want to be creating workflows in code rather than in an unfamiliar UI. We expect this trend to continue, especially with the rise of AI code writing assistants such as Copilot and Ghostwriter. Leveraging these tools will only improve Trigger.dev as time goes on, and make the creation of complex workflows more and more accessible to all developers.
If you have a workflow you want to build and would like to try our platform - we would love to hear from you!
If you have any questions or want to access the YC deal, please email me at matt@trigger.dev.