Inngest vs Pushary

Inngest

Waits are durable and cost nothing while suspended, with runs up to 30 days on Free and 366 on Business. No reviewer inbox, Slack app or email, so the human side is your code.

Pushary

Six small tools with a detailed skill that says when to ask, when to notify and when to stay quiet. No free plan, and the 3-day trial takes a card up front.

Inngest

1. Use step.waitForSignal() when one run waits for one answer, and waitForEvent only when one answer resumes many runs
2. Register the wait before you send the approval request, or check the external state first, since early events are missed
3. Use a unique approval ID per tool call and match on it, so parallel approvals resolve independently
4. Treat null or undefined as a timeout and decide on purpose whether that rejects, approves or escalates
5. Set an event id when sending the answer, so a retried send is dropped within 24 hours

Pushary

1. Read answered, status and handoffAction on every result, and never treat a timeout as approval
2. Expect ask_user to return at once with answered: false when the user's mode is notify-only or terminal-only
3. Poll wait_for_answer once (it waits at most 55 seconds), then follow the handoff instead of looping
4. Cancel a live question with cancel_question before asking the same thing in chat
5. Group open decisions into one select question, since each push interrupts the user