{
  "slug": "defer",
  "name": "Defer",
  "url": "https://defer.run",
  "cat": "auto",
  "group": "ship",
  "tagline": "Discontinued, redirects away",
  "price": "Discontinued, no pricing. The domain now 302-redirects to an unrelated product at digger.tools.",
  "tier": "paid",
  "pick": false,
  "what": "A zero-infrastructure background jobs platform for Node and TypeScript, pitched as a hosted replacement for BullMQ with cron, retries and a dashboard. <b>It is no longer operating</b>: <code>defer.run</code> redirects elsewhere and the SDKs are unmaintained.",
  "why": "Included so you skip it. Everything Defer was for is now better served by Trigger.dev, Inngest or Hatchet, all of which have live free tiers and self-hosting.",
  "warn": "Dead product. Do not start anything new on it, and treat any blog post or tutorial recommending Defer as out of date.",
  "category": {
    "key": "auto",
    "name": "Automation & background jobs",
    "desc": "Visual no-code and code-first job runners — different problems, listed together.",
    "group": "ship",
    "groupName": "Ship it & keep it alive"
  },
  "freshness": null,
  "health": {
    "ok": true,
    "status_code": 429,
    "final_url": "https://digger.tools/?ref=defer.run",
    "checked_at": "2026-08-19T00:58:08.071+00:00"
  },
  "corrected_at": null,
  "upstream_changed_at": null
}