aid: defer-run
name: Defer
description: >-
  Defer was a Paris-based, Y Combinator-backed (W23) zero-infrastructure
  background jobs platform for Node.js and TypeScript developers, founded
  in 2022 by Bryan Frimin and Charly Poly. The product converted regular
  JavaScript/TypeScript async functions into managed background jobs with
  configurable retries, throttling, concurrency controls, scheduled crons,
  multi-environment support, alerting, and a hosted dashboard — removing
  the need for developers to operate their own queues, workers, and
  Redis-style infrastructure. Defer shipped client SDKs and framework
  integrations (Next.js, RedwoodJS) and a CLI/build pipeline that uploaded
  function bundles to the Defer cloud for execution. The company appears
  to have wound down its hosted service in 2024 — the defer.run domain
  now 301-redirects to digger.tools, no end-of-service post-mortem is
  publicly linked from the homepage, and the GitHub organization
  (github.com/defer-run) last saw meaningful activity in July 2024 with
  the final defer.client release v2.3.0 cut on 2024-03-06. The open
  source client libraries remain available but are effectively unmaintained
  and the hosted backend they depended on is no longer operational. This
  catalog entry preserves the historical footprint of Defer as part of the
  2022-2024 wave of "zero-infrastructure" background-job and durable-
  execution startups (Inngest, Trigger.dev, Hatchet, Temporal Cloud,
  Restate) so the design pattern and the players who pursued it remain
  discoverable in the API Evangelist network.
type: Index
position: Provider
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
  - Background Jobs
  - Asynchronous Processing
  - Job Queues
  - Serverless
  - Node.js
  - TypeScript
  - Workflow Orchestration
  - Cron
  - Durable Execution
  - Developer Tools
  - Defunct
  - Y Combinator
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/defer-run/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-05-25'
modified: '2026-05-25'
specificationVersion: '0.20'
apis: []
common:
  - type: DomainSecurity
    url: security/defer-run-domain-security.yml
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.defer.run
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.defer.run
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/defer-run
  - type: ClientSDK
    url: https://github.com/defer-run/defer.client
  - type: NextJSIntegration
    url: https://github.com/defer-run/nextjs
  - type: RedwoodJSIntegration
    url: https://github.com/defer-run/defer-redwoodjs
  - type: DemoApp
    url: https://github.com/defer-run/defer.demo
  - type: YCombinator
    url: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/defer
  - type: YCombinatorLaunch
    url: https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I2Y-defer-a-zero-infrastructure-platform-for-node-js-background-jobs
  - type: LaunchHN
    url: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35096366
  - type: EndOfServiceAnnouncement
    url: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39817493
  - type: Crunchbase
    url: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/defer
  - type: Twitter
    url: https://x.com/defer_run
  - type: IntroductionBlogPost
    url: https://dev.to/defer/introducing-defer-a-zero-infrastructure-background-jobs-nodejs-platform-43jb
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com