Pg-workflows
Lightweight workflows for Node.js using Postgres
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Hey HN,I'm a big fan of the Postgres ecosystem and the reliability it brings to the TS stack. More often than not, the answer to "should I add another piece of infrastructure?" is "Postgres can already do that."I’ve been a long-time user of https://timgit.github.io/pg-boss, but I wanted to take the developer experience (DX) a step further for multi-step processes, especially for AI workflows.I built pg-workflows to provide a fluent API for defining durable background logic. Instead of manually stitching together disparate jobs, you can define your business logic as a clean, type-safe chain.
HN · launched Feb 16, 2026 · 14 upvotes (top 37%) · 2 views
Niche: backend development platforms and services · 94 launches, 6 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Yes It is a TypeScript library that wraps Postgres using standard transactional queue patterns and table-based state machines on top of `pg` and `pg-boss`.
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Attention rank: #116 of 250 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 109 days after the earliest competitor.
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