Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Trigger.dev lets developers add AI agents to their products with a simple SDK — handling execution, long-running workflows, and reliability so they don't have to. Over 90% of their usage now comes from agent workflows, and they recently announced their $16M Series A led by Standard Capital.
In this episode of Founder Firesides, co-founders Matt and Eric sat down with YC's Pete Koomen to talk about three versions of the product before finding product market fit, how building async infrastructure for two years accidentally put them in the perfect position for the agent era, and why they think the future of computing is programmatic checkpoint and restore — freezing and resuming compute on demand.
http://trigger.dev/
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00:00 What Trigger.dev does
00:55 Zapier for developers (v1)
04:14 The first pivot
06:36 Finding product-market fit
10:43 Real customer use cases
18:00 Open source as agent marketing
23:14 Hiring after Opus 4.5
27:41 Shipping quality code with agents
31:17 Advice for new founders
Trigger.dev lets developers add AI agents to their products with a simple SDK — handling execution, long-running workflows, and reliability so they don't have to. Over 90% of their usage now comes from agent workflows, and they recently announced their $16M Series A led by Standard Capital.
In this episode of Founder Firesides, co-founders Matt and Eric sat down with YC's Pete Koomen to talk about three versions of the product before finding product market fit, how building async infrastructure for two years accidentally put them in the perfect position for the agent era, and why they think the future of computing is programmatic checkpoint and restore — freezing and resuming compute on demand.
http://trigger.dev/
Apply to Y Combinator: ycombinator.com/apply
Work at a startup: ycombinator.com/jobs
00:00 What Trigger.dev does
00:55 Zapier for developers (v1)
04:14 The first pivot
06:36 Finding product-market fit
10:43 Real customer use cases
18:00 Open source as agent marketing
23:14 Hiring after Opus 4.5
27:41 Shipping quality code with agents
31:17 Advice for new founders
