I Got Tired of Rebuilding the Same Backend Logic for Every AI Agent… So I Built InvokeAPI

Hey Builders

Over the last year, I’ve spent a lot of time building AI workflows, automation tools, and async agents , and no matter what I was working on, I kept running into the same friction:

• Long-running tasks that needed retries and job tracking
• Webhooks that had to fire only when the work was done
• Merging PDFs or generating invoices from JSON
• Scraping metadata from a URL
• Keeping the logic clean without writing the same boilerplate again and again

At some point, I realized… I was wasting more time wiring up infrastructure than actually building new ideas.

And like many indie hackers and developers before me , I scratched my own itch.

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The Idea Behind InvokeAPI

I started working on InvokeAPI as a way to offload those repetitive, heavy-lifting backend tasks I kept rebuilding for every new agent.

The idea was simple:
One API that handles async functionality like:

• PDF merging
• JSON-to-invoice generation
• Metadata scraping
• Long-running job execution with webhook support

You send a request → it processes the job asynchronously → you poll or receive a webhook when it’s done → done.

No queues. No workers. No setting up servers.

Just plug it into your AI agent or automation flow and focus on what matters: building intelligence, not infrastructure.

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Where We Are Now

Right now, InvokeAPI is in beta, and I’m talking to other builders especially those working on AI agents or multi-step automation flows to gather real-world feedback.

We're using this feedback loop to:

• Identify the most painful parts of agent workflows
• Prioritize which APIs to build next
• Shape the product into something that feels like a natural extension of how agents operate

It’s been exciting (and a little scary) to build in the open like this but that feedback loop is already proving more valuable than any feature I could’ve guessed on my own.

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Scratching Your Own Itch Works

If there’s one thing I’ve learned from this process so far, it’s this:

When something annoys you repeatedly that’s not a blocker, it’s a blueprint.

The tools we create from our own friction points often become the most useful, because they’re grounded in real, frustrating, day-to-day problems.

InvokeAPI was born because I got tired of rebuilding queues and scraping pipelines. Now I’m hoping it helps others skip that same pain and just build.

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Would Love to Hear From You

If you’re building agents, async automations, or chaining together tools and APIs:

What’s one piece of functionality you wish existed as a plug-and-play API?

I’d love to hear what you're working on and what kind of tools could save you hours.

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Appreciate you reading this far and if you're curious to try the beta, you can check it out here:
👉 https://invokeapi.dev 🚀