Eric Allam

we're opening up more roles, hiring remote or in person in London 🇬🇧, building some very cool open source stuff and working on hard/medium/easy problems (we have them all). DM me and please share 🙏

Applications for the latest Standard Capital Series A funding cycle are now open! Apply by July 21, hear back by July 31.

On 22-23 June our us-east-1 and eu-central-1 regions had periods of downtime and the overall incident lasted 18 hours. This falls way short of the reliability we aim for. I’m really sorry to all our customers, who will be receiving credits for that period and more. What happened, why it took so long to recover, and what we’re changing (starting from yesterday): trigger.dev/blog/incident-…

@alexdanilowicz @magicpatterns Okay now this is sick

Today, we're launching Screens on @magicpatterns A bird's-eye view of your entire design, like Figma, but everything is interactive and code-first. Our agent will intelligently lay out screens for you. We believe this is the future of design tooling.

Verbal ticks that give away Claude code: - Blast radius - Phase 1/2/x - Smoking gun - Let me actually check - Honestly, no - Honest answer

@jordipx @triggerdotdev @readbaseapp Looking into it

.@maverickdotdev @triggerdotdev trigger deploy command failing at the final depot registry push with 401 "failed to fetch anonymous token". PAT is valid (worker was created OK in the same run), so depot creds don't seem to be reaching the builder. CLI v4.4.6. Any pointers? 👀

Trigger.dev lets developers add AI agents to their products with a simple SDK, handling execution, long-running workflows, and reliability so they don't have to. Over 90% of their usage now comes from agent workflows, and they recently announced their $16M Series A led by Standard Capital. In this episode of Founder Firesides, co-founders @mattaitken and @maverickdotdev sat down with YC's @koomen to talk about three versions of the product before finding product market fit, how building async infrastructure for two years accidentally put them in the perfect position for the agent era, and why they think the future of computing is programmatic checkpoint and restore — freezing and resuming compute on demand.

Bolto is a single platform that provides AI-native recruiting, HR and payroll in the same product, from YC S23. I just posted an interview with @mrinalsingh02 and @jakeatbolto, the founders of @boltohq, about their recent $ 12M Series A from @Standard_Cap. Link below

. @mattaitken from @triggerdotdev talking durable agents - @aiDotEngineer Europe

📝Detailed write up of how we ditched git worktrees in favor of @gitbutler and how we use it with agents here: trigger.dev/blog/parallel-…

We've decided to get into the 👟 business

We led the Series A for Insight Health. Insight Health builds AI agents for specialty care. The founders include a YC alum, the former head of cloud infrastructure at Twilio, and two practicing physicians. Welcome to @Standard_Cap, Insight Health!

@acadb3k @pugson @Zai_org @triggerdotdev we also do support idempotency keys when triggering tasks: trigger.dev/docs/idempoten…

@acadb3k @pugson @Zai_org @triggerdotdev Typically for that kind of thing you could use idempotent writes to the database (e.g. upserts) but I'm not sure what credit drift is

Vercel is great, but... My AI app generates 5-10 screens via @Zai_org Vercel's timeout kills it in prod. Need a service for long-running AI tasks: Supports Next.js timeout 10 min+ Railway? Render? VPS? What are you using? #saas #developers #nextjs

@acadb3k @pugson @Zai_org @triggerdotdev Use batchTriggerAndWait and do each screen in a separate task like this:

@maverickdotdev @pugson @Zai_org @triggerdotdev wow so glad to see you here! that’s exactly what I’m planning to do. thanks! I have another question, mind if I ask? for 6-8 screens (1-2 min each), do you recommend 1 run = 1 job (sequential) or 1 screen = 1 job (parallel)? Which is better for production?

@acadb3k @pugson @Zai_org @triggerdotdev Do you mean stream updates to convex as in like saving the llm stream chunks to a the database? You can definitely do that with us, its a full Node.js process so you can do pretty much anything

@pugson @Zai_org @triggerdotdev sequential ai generation takes 5-10 mins can i stream updates to Convex from a Trigger task in real time? and how does it handle 3k users without hitting LLM rate limits? Is this the best production safe path?

Been running AI automation on GitHub PRs - generating them, reviewing them. Was doing it in GitHub Actions. Debugging GitHub Actions is a slog. Rerunning a failed job is a hassle. Observability beyond pass and fail requires parsing logs. Switched to @triggerdotdev. Night and day. Easier to set up, integrate locally, rerun, and actually see what's happening. The DX is much better.

Switching from Node to @bunjavascript gave us a 5x speed boost (28x better max latency) but there was a gotcha… Pending response promises don't resolve on client disconnect. @nodejs handles this automatically. Fix: resolve disconnects with 499. trigger.dev/blog/firebun

@NathanFlurry @triggerdotdev Ah man someone beat us to it! We need to publish a demo

Another cool use case we didn't consider: company started using Secure Exec with @triggerdotdev 👀

🤘 Rivet Secure Exec (V8 isolates): Securely execute Node.js anywhere (Railway, Vercel, Hetzner, Kubernetes) vs 🔥 Firecracker (microVMs): Full Linux operating system, but requires specialized infrastructure

@bmcnew_ @triggerdotdev How about us?

Ran an agent audit on @triggerdotdev