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A lightweight job queue built with just Flask and SQLite. It lets you trigger scripts on edge devices (like Android/Termux or Raspberry Pis) sitting behind NAT without opening inbound ports. It handles task routing, atomic locking, and retries natively, giving you a reliable distributed system. Built for developers who want something lighter than Redis, RabbitMQ, or Firebase, but more reliable than cron.
Hey Product Hunt!
I'm Dhanush, a CS undergrad and backend developer, and this is Intent Bus.
I built this to solve a massive headache I was having: I needed a simple way to trigger automation scripts on my personal edge devices (specifically an Android phone running Termux) from a cloud server.
The standard advice is to deploy Celery and RabbitMQ/Redis, but that is heavy, expensive, and massive overkill for simple side projects. The other option was opening inbound network ports, which is a security nightmare.
So, I built Intent Bus. Your cloud server just holds the jobs in a SQLite database, and your edge devices act as workers that safely pull tasks via standard outbound HTTP. It handles lease locking, exponential backoff, and dead-letter queues natively.
It's not meant to replace Kafka, but for personal infrastructure and edge automation, it works perfectly (stress-tested to ~13 jobs/sec).
I’d love to hear your feedback on the architecture, and I'm around all day to answer any questions!
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About Intent Bus on Product Hunt
“Zero-infrastructure task queue for edge devices.”
Intent Bus was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #136 on the daily leaderboard. A lightweight job queue built with just Flask and SQLite. It lets you trigger scripts on edge devices (like Android/Termux or Raspberry Pis) sitting behind NAT without opening inbound ports. It handles task routing, atomic locking, and retries natively, giving you a reliable distributed system. Built for developers who want something lighter than Redis, RabbitMQ, or Firebase, but more reliable than cron.
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