Show HN: I built a cron job scheduler
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Show HN: I built a cron job scheduler
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Re: Show HN: I built a cron job scheduler
#2Nice, I also think that backend engineering needs more innovation!
Re: Show HN: I built a cron job scheduler
#3You 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 ...
Re: Show HN: I built a cron job scheduler
#4You 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 ...
On the other hand, I'm not sure I'd upload credentials into a free-as-beer site. I assume there are self hosted, open source, cron web ui projects.
Re: Show HN: I built a cron job scheduler
#5What are the differentiators from a service like https://cloud.google.com/scheduler ?
Re: Show HN: I built a cron job scheduler
#6You 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).
Re: Show HN: I built a cron job scheduler
#7You 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).
Cron-job.org uses a similar interface and is much older than this project.
And if you don't wanna write crontab syntax, then there are other free alternatives like IFTTT
Re: Show HN: I built a cron job scheduler
#8Slick 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 scheduling support for seconds. Obviously you'd have to get creative on this one.
2. Allow conditionals with rules-based triggers that are easily configured in a UI
Those would require you create something more akin to Laravel's Console setup instead of working directly with Cron directives, but that's something worth considering! In that setup, a Cron is pointed at the Laravel configuration and it runs every minute: https://laravel.com/docs/7.x/scheduling - ultimately for #1 you'd want to take inspiration from https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9619362/running-a-cron-e...
Good luck, have fun :-)
Re: Show HN: I built a cron job scheduler
#9You 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 ...
Personally, you get what you pay for, also If I use something a lot I do not mind paying a few bucks a month to someone that worked hard creating it.
Re: Show HN: I built a cron job scheduler
#10You 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 ...
I was also thinking, it's a bit lower level but, using Github Actions with the 'on.schedule'
https://help.github.com/en/actions/reference/workflow-syntax...