Show HN: Jiter – Just in Time Webhooks
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Re: Show HN: Jiter – Just in Time Webhooks
#2Hey HN!
Today we are launching Jiter, a service that lets you schedule callbacks and receive webhook events when you are ready for them. We got really annoyed by having to manage cron jobs in our application when the vast majority of the functionality that we needed was to be reminded that an event was supposed to happen in the future. Jiter makes this simple since all you need to provide is an ISO timestamp, a stringified payload, and your endpoint destination - we'll handle all of the queuing and do our best to send you that event at your desired time.
Please let us know if you have any questions or feedback! We will have an SDK up soon!
Re: Show HN: Jiter – Just in Time Webhooks
#3Congrats @josevalerio
So rad! I built an experiment a while back to do exactly this (https://onassar.github.io/experiments/boomerang-webhooks)
It's awesome to see this productized. I had the same annoyance: setting up and managing cron jobs.
Good luck with the launch :)
Re: Show HN: Jiter – Just in Time Webhooks
#4Pretty cool!
Some other similar tech for those interested in tools like this:
Zeplo https://www.zeplo.io/
Boomerang https://onassar.github.io/experiments/boomerang-webhooks
Re: Show HN: Jiter – Just in Time Webhooks
#5Hey HN! Today we are launching Jiter, a service that lets you schedule callbacks and receive webhook events when you are ready for them. We got really annoyed by having to manage cron jobs in our application when the vast majority of the functionality that we needed was to be reminded that an event was supposed to happen in the future. Jiter makes this simple since all you need to provide is an ISO timestamp, a strin…
From the homepage and the examples after signing up, I don't get if you are able to create one event which would be recurring and trigger a webhook every week/month/year etc. or is that not possible yet?
Re: Show HN: Jiter – Just in Time Webhooks
#6Hey HN! Today we are launching Jiter, a service that lets you schedule callbacks and receive webhook events when you are ready for them. We got really annoyed by having to manage cron jobs in our application when the vast majority of the functionality that we needed was to be reminded that an event was supposed to happen in the future. Jiter makes this simple since all you need to provide is an ISO timestamp, a strin…
From the homepage and the examples after signing up, I don't get if you are able to create one event which would be recurring and trigger a webhook every week/month/year etc. or is that not possible yet?
Recurring events will be supported in the future for full CRON like functionality, we wanted to start off with the simple one off events first :)
Re: Show HN: Jiter – Just in Time Webhooks
#7Hey HN! Today we are launching Jiter, a service that lets you schedule callbacks and receive webhook events when you are ready for them. We got really annoyed by having to manage cron jobs in our application when the vast majority of the functionality that we needed was to be reminded that an event was supposed to happen in the future. Jiter makes this simple since all you need to provide is an ISO timestamp, a strin…
It looks interesting but even after signing up I cannot find any documentation aside from the basic code snippets. An example of what I would like to know is: what if things go wrong, will there be retries?
Re: Show HN: Jiter – Just in Time Webhooks
#8Hey HN! Today we are launching Jiter, a service that lets you schedule callbacks and receive webhook events when you are ready for them. We got really annoyed by having to manage cron jobs in our application when the vast majority of the functionality that we needed was to be reminded that an event was supposed to happen in the future. Jiter makes this simple since all you need to provide is an ISO timestamp, a strin…
It looks interesting but even after signing up I cannot find any documentation aside from the basic code snippets. An example of what I would like to know is: what if things go wrong, will there be retries?
If an error occurs on our end while processing it, we will keep retrying for a while. If an event fails to POST to your endpoint it'll have a failedAt time for when it failed. We are adding customizable retries soon, as well as docs and an SDK, thanks for your concern we know that's a big feature :)
Re: Show HN: Jiter – Just in Time Webhooks
#9Please do not interpret this comment as negative in any way - I am sincerely trying to understand what this does.
Instead of setting up cronjobs on a machine I own, this allows me to set up a cronjob on jiter servers to make a callback to my server?
Who is your target user? I am happy to run cronjobs or systemd timers on servers that I or my team control. And for execution in environments like GitHub Actions or AWS Lambda, they all have functionality to trigger execution with a timer.
This introduces added complexity of maintaining a webhook receiver and having to deal with the rather complex failure modes of webhooks.
Re: Show HN: Jiter – Just in Time Webhooks
#10Pretty cool! Some other similar tech for those interested in tools like this: Zeplo https://www.zeplo.io/ Boomerang https://onassar.github.io/experiments/boomerang-webhooks
Thanks for sharing! Onassar is also in this thread :D