Absurd
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
4recommend
0warn against
Nov 3, 2025first mention
Aug 9, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“which is also Postgres and even simpler than DBOS”
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“I'm greatly enjoying using it”
“I think it's a brilliant idea.”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
Often compared with
Who recommends it in their own words
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“absurd does the state storage. I wrote some more about why it exists here”
Threads where it came up
- Absurd Workflows: Durable Execution with Just Postgres 4 mentions
- Just Use Postgres for Durable Workflows 2 mentions
- Building a Durable Execution Engine with SQLite 2 mentions
- Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026) 1 mention
- PostgreSQL Is Enough 1 mention
- pg_durable: Microsoft open sources in-database durable execution 1 mention
Also written as absurd. Data: absurd.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 11
“Reminds me a bit of https://github.com/earendil-works/absurd”
“There's great projects like”
“Absurd (by the Pi LLM harness devs) minimizes the pure db approach as much as possible.”
“which is also Postgres and even simpler than DBOS”
“I've not used it, but it's worth comparing to other options”
“which is also an interesting project”
“I'm greatly enjoying using it”
“here is the Python Client for Absurd”
“FYI. Highway DSL now fully supports Absurd.”
“I think it's a brilliant idea.”
“Ah, got it, it throws Exception in order to stop the task each time”