# Show HN: NextMQ – managed BullMQ for serverless Next.js

> Source: <https://nextmq.com/>
> Published: 2026-06-30 15:30:20+00:00

### Auto-retry & backoff

Throw, and we retry with fixed or exponential backoff.

Schedule jobs with auto-retry, parallel execution, rate-limiting, deduplication, and parent-child dependencies.

```
// A slow LLM call outlives a serverless function, and a
// burst trips the provider's 429 — run it off-request,
// throttled and in parallel.
import { Worker } from '@nextmq/sdk'

export const ai = new Worker('ai', async (job) => {
  return await openai.responses.create(job.data.input)
}, {
  limiter: { max: 10, duration: 1000 }, // 10 calls / sec
  concurrency: 25,                      // 25 in flight
})
```

The same `Queue`

, `Worker`

, and `FlowProducer`

— without the complex infrastructure, seamlessly integrated into your Next.js app.

```
// The logic runs in your app, the queue runs on ours 
// — connected by a single webhook handler.

import { createNextMQHandler } from '@nextmq/sdk/next'
import { ai } from '@/jobs/ai'

export const { GET, POST } = createNextMQHandler({
  workers: [ai],
})
```

NextMQ runs the open-source BullMQ engine that's processed billions of jobs a day since 2011. Battle-tested core, none of the ops.

Throw, and we retry with fixed or exponential backoff.

Delayed and repeating jobs on timezone-aware cron.

Set per-queue concurrency; jobs run in parallel.

Cap calls per window so you never blow a provider quota.

Drop duplicate jobs by key — the work runs once.

Fan out parent/child graphs and gather child results.

| Queue | Completed | Failed | Err |
|---|---|---|---|
| ai | 62.4k | 180 | 0.3% |
| 211k | 42 | 0.0% | |
| payments | 47.9k | 610 | 1.3% |
| webhooks | 18.3k | 96 | 0.5% |

Inspect, debug, or replay your BullMQ queues in real time — and get alerted the moment failures spike.

Start free, upgrade to Pro for production, and talk to us for a dedicated setup.

For testing and small projects.

For production workloads.

For dedicated infrastructure.

Drop-in BullMQ-compatible SDK.

No server, no Redis, no webhook plumbing.