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Slick landing page design, well done and congrats on your hard work. As others have said the market is saturated and engineers would implement this themselves. Don't let that deter you, though, there's still room for innovation. If you can get user feedback I'm sure you can find a niche or killer feature that makes your product worth paying for. For me, I have two things I'd like to see in a paid service: 1. Allow sc…
What are the differentiators from a service like https://cloud.google.com/scheduler ?
That can be a scary step but if you want to get paid so that you can afford to keep working on cronhub then it makes sense!
You might also want to consider explicitly stating the value proposition: how will I save money/time/etc by using your service?
One possible use case that you might be missing are recurrent tasks that I want to ensure are run. For example, for my service, https://pagecheck.app, I run tests every 30 minutes or so and I want to make sure those tests succeed. I couldn't find a job scheduler that allows for recurrent tasks, so I ended up writing my own Javascript library for Postgres: https://github.com/meyer9/postqueue
I'd love an external service that ensured that my recurring tasks run reliably, but it would make 0 sense for me to use your service at that price level. I have hundreds or thousands of scheduled tasks, but I can't pay thousands of dollars to ensure that they are run.
You realized that there are already free alternatives like https://cron-job.org/en/ on the market?! I - personally - would never pay for a cron job service ...
In many cases, paying for a service you could do yourself is more about having a throat to choke in case something goes wrong. I'm sure I could figure out cron/crontab if I took the time to learn about it but that's not my core skillset so paying $5/month is actually rather cheap for me (especially when the cost is passed along to a client who is less skilled at these things than I am).
You realized that there are already free alternatives like https://cron-job.org/en/ on the market?! I - personally - would never pay for a cron job service ...
What makes cron-job.org not an alternative for us, is that this they monitor by crawling a URL that you provide. This is limiting and doesn't serve our use case for backend system monitoring.
By contrast, Cronhub gives us a public endpoint that we must ping by a certain interval to say that our service ran in the interval.
We also use their slack integration to show any monitoring failures in our #fires channel!
It's a monitoring service that "just works" and we don't have to maintain it, and if things go wrong we can reach out to someone since we are paying customers.
Also Tigran is very responsive!
Congrats on the launch and moving away from the free tiers for monitoring! That can be a scary step but if you want to get paid so that you can afford to keep working on cronhub then it makes sense!
I have one question: What tool did you use to create the docs? => https://docs.cronhub.io/how-to-ping.html#ping-api
Nice landing page man! :) I have one question: What tool did you use to create the docs? => https://docs.cronhub.io/how-to-ping.html#ping-api