6 engineers on Hacker News describe using Dagger first-hand: 2 endorse it, 1 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“I've been using dagger.io and it's been really nice to work with. I pay for it using the company credit card.”
endorse · production · regularmother · 2025-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“switching from a Docker-based solution like Dagger to Nix is that it relaxed the infrastructure requirements to getting good caching properties”
regret · production · pxc · 2025-12-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“implemented it at a previous company across 95% of services, built the rust sdk... Love the tool, the team, the vision but it is too distracted”
mixed · production · kjuulh · 2025-12-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We moved to dagger to get replicable local pipeline runs, escape the gitlab DSL, and get the enormous benefits of caching.”
endorse · production · 1 yr · rgilton · 2025-03-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“replace my harness builtin tools with Dagger based implementation”
neutral · personal · verdverm · 2026-10-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use Dagger's implementation.”
neutral · production · SOLAR_FIELDS · 2023-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?