# piercefreeman/waymark

> A Rust-based library for building durable background workflows on Postgres, with Python as the first supported language. It lets you write async workflows and actions that survive server restarts, crashes, and long-running jobs without extra infrastructure.

- Magnitude: 3.5 out of 10 — Early signal
- Stars: 141 total · +2 stars measured 2026-11-09, 00:03–02:10 UTC, ≈ 14 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Backend & databases · Language: Rust · License: MIT · Created: 2025-11-16 · Last push: 2026-11-06
- GitHub: https://github.com/piercefreeman/waymark · Homepage: https://waymark.sh · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/piercefreeman/waymark

## Useful for

- Run a batch of welcome emails to active users in parallel with retries and timeouts.
- Schedule a data sync workflow on a cron expression without extra infrastructure.
- Pause a workflow durably for a day before sending follow-up recommendations.

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-11-09 (UTC), 00:03–02:10: 139 → 141 stars (+2). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +14 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- Over the last two days the pace is 1.8× that of the previous week and a half.
- Elevated gains were measured on the last 3 completed UTC days in a row. Continued growth is not guaranteed.
- Hacker News: “Show HN: Waymark – A workflow engine that compiles jobs instead of replaying” — 85 points, 3 days ago.
- Recent forks include notable developers: @mbrukman (400 followers), @dorucioclea (317 followers).

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 6
- Issues and pull requests: 887
- Watchers: 2
- Average over the last week: 20 per day
- Usual pace: 0 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 1
- Latest release: v0.30.1 (2026-11-06)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-11 … 2026-11-09: 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 77, 36, 12, 2

## Magnitude by day, last 4 days

11-06 2.8, 11-07 5.8, 11-08 4.7, 11-09 3.5

## Hacker News

- Show HN: Waymark – A workflow engine that compiles jobs instead of replaying — 85 points, 46 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50379221

## Spotted in now

- Spotted on Hacker News

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Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-11-09 02:18 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.