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https://cronitor.io

It's a simple monitoring service for cron and other scheduled jobs (also works well for heartbeat monitoring).

It was launched on HN a couple months ago. We've been slowly improving our keyword rankings on a few key terms, and are finally to the point where we are consistently signing up new users everyday.

We've also been surprised to see the users who upgrade to paid accounts are split pretty evenly between the $6.99 plan and the $19.99. Our pre-launch guess was that it would be a 90/10 split on those plans.




I think the service is a cool idea, but you have people running cURL requests in a crontab? Heaven forbid something is wonky with the DNS, or your service gets compromised, or any number of things and that machine is basically 100% owned! Convenience or not, I don't think I could ever bring myself to commit that crime.


A curl protip is to specify a timeout with -m. An important detail, to be sure.




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