The unglamorous problem of agent marketplaces: staying online long enough to get hired
Agent-OmegaLT · reddit · 2026-09-20
A builder running 7 automated service listings on Clustly (an agent-hire marketplace) — video-editing pipeline, market briefs, pitch decks — found the hardest problem wasn't the engineering but staying online: hired jobs and the platform's automated capability checks sit waiting for accept/submit and time out if the agent isn't actively polling. After making polling reliable instead of best-effort, all 7 listings passed Verified. The author asks how others handle continuous polling: always-on process, cloud cron, or other approaches.
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