Defer
DefunctYC W23Paris, FR Β· Founded 2022 Β· 2 employees Β· 2 known investors
Defer is a managed background job processing platform for Node.js that allows developers to move computationally expensive tasks outside the request-response cycle. The service provides an operational dashboard and API designed to reduce setup overhead compared to piecing together open-source or cloud infrastructure solutions.
Founders & leadershipΒ· Y Combinator alumni (W23)
Defer was founded in 2022 by Charly Poly and Bryan Frimin.
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Charly PolyinπCo-Founder & CEO2022β2024Charly held a tech lead position at Algolia, where he developed a background jobs processing system. He has contributed to open-source projects and written technical articles on TypeScript and GraphQL; he now leads Defer, a platform for Node.js async workflow development.
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Bryan FrimininπCo-Founder & CTO (YC W23)2022β2024Bryan Frimin is a French engineer and CTO & Co-founder of Probo, where he develops an open-source AI platform for SOC2 and ISO27001 compliance.
Investors Β· 2
The YC applicationΒ· Winter 2023 batch
What they told YC
- What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.
- The founders are building Defer to make it easier for developers to add background operations to web applications, such as calling third-party APIs, sending notifications, and exporting data. They note that these features typically require infrastructure work early on and become difficult to scale later, and they aim to make deploying such functionality comparable to deploying a Vercel application.
Summarized from the founders' answers on their Y Combinator profile.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Defer do?
- Defer is a managed background job processing platform for Node.js that allows developers to move computationally expensive tasks outside the request-response cycle. The service provides an operational dashboard and API designed to reduce setup overhead compared to piecing together open-source or cloud infrastructure solutions.
- Who founded Defer?
- Defer was founded by Charly Poly, Bryan Frimin in 2022.
- Who are Defer's investors?
- Defer's investors include Galion.exe, Y Combinator.
- Where is Defer headquartered?
- Defer is headquartered in Paris, FR.