The platform looks great!

However I do personally really dislike that everyone is either marketing themselves or has truly pivoted to AI agents…

This seems like a great platform to run any type of tasks.

jedberg 20 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> However I do personally really dislike that everyone is either marketing themselves or has truly pivoted to AI agents…

I'm the CEO of a direct competitor to trigger, and we're in the same boat. What we make is great for any type of workflow, but our investors are pushing us hard to frame it as AI agents.

FWIW, more than 1/2 of our customers are AI agents, so it does make sense. But you're right, it's great for all sorts of use cases (trigger and us).

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all2 14 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I'm curious what product you ship for workflows? I'm looking at pushing out a workflow engine in the near future and it is interesting to me to see what other people are doing.

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jedberg 14 hours ago | parent [-]

Out of respect for my competitor's Launch HN, I don't want to say here, but if you look at my profile or google my username it won't be hard to find. :)

	▲	eallam 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Class act. Appreciated. > FWIW, more than 1/2 of our customers are AI agents, so it does make sense. We’ve seen the same thing, more even. Our positioning wasn’t even lead by our investors; we figured if the main thing our customers were doing on the platform was building complex/long-running AI agents (and ‘agentic’ workflows), it made sense to lean into it. Fortunately (or unfortunately) for us, it does actually fit what we do pretty well, even if you can also do a lot of other great stuff with the platform which isn’t covered under that umbrella. It’s a tricky thing to get right.
	▲	dennisy 8 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		What a breath of fresh air! Love this comment!

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codegeek 20 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

"our investors are pushing us hard to frame it as AI agents"

One of the biggest downsides of raising money. The moment you have investors, they own a lot of what you do even though they shouldn't in theory.

	▲	jedberg 20 hours ago \| parent [-]
		In their defense, they are trying to help us grow and get follow on investment. I'm apprecative of my investor's input. They aren't forcing me to do anything, just highly encouraging. All of the un-budgeted money right now is for AI related workloads, so if you want enterprise money you have to pitch your product as AI. And if you want investor money right now, you better have an AI product.

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oooyay 19 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I do some AI agent work; I suspect it's because there's a lot of people with infrastructure and programming skills that are new to building "agents". It's easy to think this requires monolithic architecture when a distributed DAG is often optimal. A lot of frameworks and SDKs for "agents" also inadvertently encourage monolithic design.

Long way of saying it's the marketing machine doing its thing. This looks like Cloud or run it yourself DAG software with some bells and whistles.

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lxe 19 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

yeah this really confused me... at first I was like... oh boy yet another "agentic ai saas" but then looking closer I realized this is like hosted temporal alternative which made me a lot more curious.