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The cron alternative that does something only once is 'at'.
The modern at alternative is: systemd-run --user --on-calendar=23:20 notify-send Example Or relative with --on-active=60. And you automatically get the normal systemd tooling, e.g. systemctl list-timers.
Ask HN: What API do you wish you had while building your product?
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#83There are a few, but none provide some important information or have a reliable, complete data set. In particular, box art, UPC codes. From my research the Giant Bomb and Moby Games API's seem to be the most complete, but neither have the UPC. The only place I can find that is another API which is rather lacking in completeness and data.
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#84Let me programmatically schedule a task to run at a specific time, just once. E.g. if my user tells me to remind them about something in a day, I want to schedule a task to do that exactly 24 hours from now. I'm sure this exists already but it's hard to find because searching usually points me to a cronjob service. But what I'm looking for is distinct from a that. I don't want to run something every minute or hour or…
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#85A generic communication API (this might exist). When I want to communicate with my customer, it handles how they receive the message - whether that's SMS, Email, IM, slack, etc.
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#86A reverse pastebin, where you give it a pastebin URL and it returns the plaintext.
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#87An API providing access to coupons from major retailers in a machine readable format. Edit: Great question by the way!
Can you tell me more about how you would've integrated the API? I think I could've helped out.
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#88An API for handling image processing/uploading to S3: Use 1: Send a high-res image in any format (like, say, tiff), the original, a web-optimal jpg at full resolution, and any sizes that might be needed in various contexts (thumbnail, inline display at any screen density) are put into the right place in my S3 bucket. Use 2: Using ids or original file names, point the API to an image or array of images, uploaded via U…
We've had an excellent experience with http://cloudinary.com/ for pretty much what you describe.
relocated a developer to spent some hours writing a restful services, now paying ~$0.030 per GB
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#89Natural Language API with a well-defined ontology
https://cloud.google.com/natural-language/docs/reference/res...