Pg-workflows
Lightweight workflows for Node.js using Postgres
Details
- External ID
- 47032062
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Pg-workflows
- Website domain
- github.io
- Launched
- Feb. 16, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 14
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.6314016172506739
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
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.
Enrichment
- Theme
- database infrastructure and developer tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- workflow automation for node.js and postgres
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
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`.
Discussion
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Competitors
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