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Re: Show HN: Posthook – Job Scheduling as a Service

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Post by cgenuity »

rglover wrote: post #27
cgenuity wrote: post #2

Hello all! I built Posthook as a simple solution for web applications to schedule one-off tasks. It lets you schedule a request back to your application for a certain time, with an optional JSON payload. It can be an alternative to running your own systems like Sidekiq, Celery, or Quartz and the operational overhead that comes along with them. Cron jobs and cloud provider tools like CloudWatch Events are also used fo…

Thank you for this. I've been on the hunt for this exact service for awhile now but a lot of the options were lacking. Excited to give this a try.

Thanks! Happy to provide value, feel free to use the live chat or the support email for any specific questions or requests you might have.

Re: Show HN: Posthook – Job Scheduling as a Service

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Post by nautical »

nodesocket wrote: post #17
nautical wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey cgenuity, Great to see the simplicity, I am working on a very similar product, launched couple of days back on HN ( https://send.rest ). Best of luck. But have added couple of extra features in send.rest 1) Calling external APIs ( Think : pull data from Facebook while running this task in future and post data on my API or send SMS ) 2) Reports and retries ( Try 3 times or send me sms its failing ) 3) Recurrence (…

With send.rest and using hook, can I specify a POST and POST data and custom request headers?

send.rest supports HAR1.2 calls, you can technically call any API

Re: Show HN: Posthook – Job Scheduling as a Service

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Post by Cieplak »

This is definitely a needed service. As a business, if something isn't core to the business model, it's better to pay money and avoid distractions, at least until it's clear that something is actually core to the business.

That said, I've wanted something akin to a distributed cron, without the complexities of workflow engines like airflow or azkaban, so I started writing a little HTTP API for scheduling jobs [1], which is mostly complete except for configurable retry logic and failure notifications. To schedule a periodic job that runs every 30 seconds,

    curl http://$HOSTNAME/jobs \
    -d '{ "title"      : "Healthcheck"
        , "code"       : "curl example.com"
        , "frequency"  : "30 seconds" }'
[1] https://github.com/finix-payments/jobs

Re: Show HN: Posthook – Job Scheduling as a Service

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Post by caio1982 »

That's something I will definitely use soon! Great simple idea indeed. Just one question regarding the criteria to come up with the current pricing tiers: isn't it a bit too expensive for an one-off scheduling? I mean, over time I could totally see this as a commodity service going by the same price of popular VPS offerings (in tandem: they increase it, you increase it too, prices go down yours goes too).

Re: Show HN: Posthook – Job Scheduling as a Service

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Post by briHass »

How do you compare/compete against something like Azure Scheduler which gives you 500 jobs with unlimited executions (max 1 per minute) for $14/month.

The Azure service also supports logging (60 days), retry options, and advanced recurrence schedules (every other Tue, etc.)?

Re: Show HN: Posthook – Job Scheduling as a Service

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Post by cgenuity »

briHass wrote: post #36

How do you compare/compete against something like Azure Scheduler which gives you 500 jobs with unlimited executions (max 1 per minute) for $14/month. The Azure service also supports logging (60 days), retry options, and advanced recurrence schedules (every other Tue, etc.)?

Azure Scheduler seems to be aimed towards recurring tasks. So a scheduled request from Posthook is more actionable than a recurring execution from Azure Scheduler for the use cases I'm aiming to help solve with Posthook (think reminders). Also I'm hoping Posthook is a simpler offering in terms of pricing and integration.

Re: Show HN: Posthook – Job Scheduling as a Service

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Post by cgenuity »

caio1982 wrote: post #35

That's something I will definitely use soon! Great simple idea indeed. Just one question regarding the criteria to come up with the current pricing tiers: isn't it a bit too expensive for an one-off scheduling? I mean, over time I could totally see this as a commodity service going by the same price of popular VPS offerings (in tandem: they increase it, you increase it too, prices go down yours goes too).

Thank you! Pricing is still subject to change as I get more data from the market but the aim was to price it by the value it provides developers over just going off what the servers cost to run.

Re: Show HN: Posthook – Job Scheduling as a Service

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Post by jmvoodoo »

nodesocket wrote: post #6
cgenuity wrote: post #2

Hello all! I built Posthook as a simple solution for web applications to schedule one-off tasks. It lets you schedule a request back to your application for a certain time, with an optional JSON payload. It can be an alternative to running your own systems like Sidekiq, Celery, or Quartz and the operational overhead that comes along with them. Cron jobs and cloud provider tools like CloudWatch Events are also used fo…

Does Posthook support recurring scheduling (i.e. every 15 minutes)? Also, is there retry logic? I.E. 3 retries, delay 60 seconds between retries?

I use cron-job.org for recurring hooks. It's not as developer friendly as posthook but it gets the job done.
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