# Inngest

8 Hacker News commenters recommended Inngest and 2 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 6 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend Inngest for durable retries and observability without touching business logic. The common caveat is that you give up transactional job creation.

## Why people recommend it

- Durable retries and observability (2 comments): "adding durable retries and observability with Inngest, all without touching your business logic" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48983800)) "Inngest's Durable Endpoints aim to solve the durable API problem without messy DB txns" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47330640))
- Named among workflow tools (2 comments): "Let me introduce you to a few of my friends: Make, Task, Dagu, Windmill, Rivet, Inngest" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47117917)) "Rivet, Inngest, OVH/uTask, OVH/cds" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47117960))

## What people warn about

- Gives up transactional job creation (1 comments): "It works, but you give up transactional job creation" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47330387))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Temporal](https://hackerapproved.com/p/temporal.md): 138 recommend
- [DBOS](https://hackerapproved.com/p/dbos.md): 39 recommend
- [Apache Airflow](https://hackerapproved.com/p/airflow.md): 18 recommend
- [Restate](https://hackerapproved.com/p/restate.md): 16 recommend
- [Windmill](https://hackerapproved.com/p/windmill.md): 11 recommend

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://www.inngest.com/)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Inngest", https://hackerapproved.com/p/inngest/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).