Use Cases

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This section is still a work in progress.

We will be adding detailed tutorials for each use case soon.

Tell us on Discord or X what you would like to see here.

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Triggering Nextjs Functions on a schedule

Create a schedule in QStash that runs every hour and calls a Next.js serverless function hosted on Vercel.

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Reset Billing Cycle in your Database

Once a month, reset database entries to start a new billing cycle.

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Fanning out alerts to Slack, email, Opsgenie, etc.

Createa QStash URL Group that receives alerts from a single source and delivers them to multiple destinations.

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Send delayed message when a new user signs up

Publish delayed messages whenever a new user signs up in your app. After a certain delay (e.g. 10 minutes), QStash will send a request to your API, allowing you to email the user a welcome message.