Launch HN: Defer (YC W23) – Zero-infrastructure background jobs for Node.js

Hi HN! We are Charly and Bryan, founders of Defer ( https://www.defer.run/ ). Defer is a zero-infrastructure background jobs platform for Node.js developers. As a managed platform that brings modern development standards to background jobs (ex: multi-env support, zero-API design), we enable Node.js developers to build products faster and scale without effort and infrastructure knowledge. Background jobs, while being used in all web applications (processing webhooks, interacting with 3rd party APIs, or powering core features), did not benefit from the developer experience improvements that arose in all other layers of the Node.js API stack: quick and reliable databases with Supabase or easy Serverless deployment with Vercel. Today, even for simple use cases, working with background jobs in Node.js necessarily requires some infrastructure knowledge—either by deploying and sc

Kind

startup

Status

Shut down

Inventor

wittydeveloper

Ended

2023

Source

hackernews