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Build and deploy fully‑managed AI agents and workflows

Winter 2023Founded 20229 peopleLondon, England, United Kingdom

About

Trigger.dev is the open source platform for building AI agents and workflows in TypeScript. Long-running tasks with retries, queues, full observability, and elastic scaling. Previously, the founders built JSON Hero, an open source JSON viewer that is currently used by more than 35k developers a month. Eric was CTO of Code School, an early code learning platform that was acquired in 2015. Matt created two iPad apps that won Apple’s App of the Year.

Founders · 4

Matt Aitken
Matt AitkenFounder
Apple

Matt Aitken is the CEO of Trigger.dev, a developer tool that makes creating automation workflows a great experience in your codebase. He's a programmer who previously created two iPad apps that went on to win Apple's iPad app of the year award. He's worked on several startups including building JSON Hero, a popular developer tool.

Eric Allam
Eric AllamFounder

Eric Allam is the founder and CTO of Trigger.dev, the developer-first open source Zapier Alternative. He's previously co-founded CodeSchool.com and works on JSON Hero, a popular developer tool.

Dan Patel
Dan PatelFounder

Co-founder of Trigger.dev; the open source background jobs platform, and JSON Hero.

James Ritchie
James RitchieFounder

I'm co-founder and frontend engineer of Trigger.dev, a developer tool for creating background jobs in code. Previously I was a product lead at a number of VC backed startups. I also built JSON Hero, another popular OSS developer tool.

Launch

Launched on Y Combinator · Nov 2022
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An open source API proxy that makes debugging and caching APIs trivial

API Hero provides an edge proxy to route selected API traffic for caching and full visibility of requests and responses, aiming to speed up APIs and simplify debugging. The launch highlights a free onboarding, configurable traffic proxy, request/response monitoring, alerts, and automatic retries for developers and teams working with APIs.

From the original launch (Nov 2022) — may be outdated.

Formerly API Hero

B2BEngineering, Product and DesignDeveloper ToolsSaaSB2BOpen SourceAI

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