Trigger.dev Has a Free Background Jobs Platform — Long-Running Tasks Without Infrastructure

A developer needed to process uploaded CSVs in the background. Bull/Redis needed a server. AWS Lambda had 15-minute limits. Vercel functions timeout at 60 seconds. Trigger.dev is a platform for background jobs. Write TypeScript functions that run for hours. No infrastructure to manage. What Trigger.dev Offers for Free 50,000 Runs/Month - Free tier Long-Running - Tasks can run for hours (not seconds) TypeScript - Full type safety Retries - Automatic retry with backoff Scheduling - Cron and delayed jobs Webhooks - Trigger from any webhook Dashboard - Monitor all runs with logs Self-Hostable - Run on your own infrastructure Quick Start import { task } from ' @trigger.dev/sdk/v3 ' export const processCSV = task ({ id : ' process-csv ' , run : async ( payload : { fileUrl : string }) => { const data = await fetch ( payload . fileUrl ) // Process for hours if needed for ( const row of rows ) { await processRow ( row ) } return { processed : rows . length } }, }) Website: trigger.dev - 50K run