Inngest 1.0 – Open-source durable workflows on every platform
Hi HN! I’m Tony, one of the co-founders of Inngest (https://inngest.com/) Inngest is an open-source durable workflow platform that works on any cloud. Durable workflows are stateful, long running step functions written in code, which automatically retry on failure. It abstracts everything about queues, event streams and state for you, letting you focus on code. Some examples of uses: managing stateful AI chained step functions; managing search/rag indexes and data pipelines; integrations and webhooks; billing and payment flows. Technical details: unlike other solutions,…
Inngest 1.0 – Open-source durable workflows on every platform launched on September 20, 2024 with 165 votes, #372 of 5,281 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.
In plain words
Inngest is an open-source platform for building durable workflows—stateful, long-running functions that automatically retry on failure—across any cloud. It handles queues, event streams, and state management, allowing developers to write workflow logic directly in code. The platform supports use cases including AI step functions, data pipelines, integrations, webhooks, and payment flows. It emphasizes developer experience through straightforward APIs and includes built-in multi-tenancy, batching, and debouncing capabilities.
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From the sources
Build reliable background jobs, workflows, and AI agents without extra infrastructure. Automatic retries, flow control, and step-level observability.
H o w y o u b u i l d a g e n t s w i l l c h a n g e . H o w t h e y r u n s h o u l d n ' t . I n n g e s t m o v e s d u r a b i l i t y a n d o b s e r v a b i l i t y o u t o f s e p a r a t e i n f r a s t r u c t u r <s Your code has to work no matter what. Add steps to any codebase to automate retries from failure— not from scratch. Don’t let one needy user starve the rest. Add rate limits, per-tenant concurrency, and throttling with one line of code. Observability that lives outside the execution chain misses context. Trace everything, replay anything, and eval variants based on real product outcomes. Because durability lives in code—not tied to any specific infrastructure…from inngest.com
In the maker’s words, at launch
Hi HN! I’m Tony, one of the co-founders of Inngest (https://inngest.com/) Inngest is an open-source durable workflow platform that works on any cloud. Durable workflows are stateful, long running step functions written in code, which automatically retry on failure. It abstracts everything about queues…
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