Day 4 — Build/Deploy an Automation to Trigger.dev

Project: weekly-niche-report — an automation that researches profitable affiliate niches weekly, analyzes them, and emails a summary report, with no laptop required to keep it running. I have an automation running in Trigger.dev's production environment that you can see in the dashboard, and it doesn't require your laptop to be open. Confirmed: the task is deployed, scheduled, and has successfully completed a real production test run — from data research through to sending the email — entirely independent of any local machine.The automation was built, deployed to Trigger.dev, and connected to GitHub so that new code changes deploy automatically. All required production credentials (AI, email, and search API keys) are configured in Trigger.dev. The weekly schedule is active and set to the correct local time zone. A full production test run completed successfully, confirming the entire pipeline works end-to-end and a real report email was delivered. Every Monday morning, Trigger.dev will run the task on its own and send a fresh report by email. Any future code changes pushed to the repository will redeploy automatically.During initial testing, one of the API integrations (SerpAPI / Resend / Anthropic) didn't behave as expected, most likely due to a version mismatch between the Trigger.dev CLI and the @trigger.dev/* SDK packages — these need to stay in sync, or calls can fail unpredictably. Claude Code identified the mismatch and aligned the package versions, after which the task ran cleanly end-to-end.

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Day 4 — Build/Deploy an Automation to Trigger.dev