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Dev tools · October 5, 2019

Render

Hey HN, I'm Anurag, founder and CEO of Render, a cloud for application developers. We've just launched Render Workflows, a way to define durable tasks by decorating plain TypeScript or Python functions and running them on Render without operating queues, worker pools, retry logic, and state management. Code example below [1]. The use cases we have in mind include agent loops, ETL/data pipelines, billing flows, and other long-running jobs. The model is simple: mark an existing function as a Task, deploy the repo as a Workflow, then trigger runs from your application code or via our API.…

Render launched on October 5, 2019 with 318 votes, #26 of 3,363 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 7 years on.

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In plain words

Render is a cloud platform that lets developers and startups build and deploy applications and websites. It provides free SSL certificates, a global content delivery network, private networking, and automatic deployments connected to Git repositories. The platform consolidates multiple tools into a single unified service for running apps and websites.

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From the sources

Render is a unified platform to build and run all your apps and websites with free SSL, a global CDN, private networks and auto deploys from Git.

Deploy reliable application logic and parallel workloads without managing queues, worker pools, or custom retry logic.

Migrating production infrastructure? Get up to $10K in migration credits. Deploy reliable application logic and parallel workloads without managing queues, worker pools, or custom retry logic. const agentLoop = task ( { name : 'agentLoop' } , async ( ctx : TaskContext , userInput : string , conversationContext : object ) => { const actions = await callLlm ( userInput , conversationContext ) // Chain a task run for each planned action, in parallel const results = await Promise . all ( actions . map ( ( action ) => ctx . run ( execute , action ) ) ) // Combine results into a coherent response return await ctx . run ( synthesize , userInput , results ) } ) const execute = task ( { name :…from render.com

In the maker’s words, at launch

Hey HN, I'm Anurag, founder and CEO of Render, a cloud for application developers. We've just launched Render Workflows, a way to define durable tasks by decorating plain TypeScript or Python functions and running them on Render without operating queues, worker pools, retry logic, and state management. Code example…

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