Show HN: Schedule periodic jobs on Heroku with Cron (opens in new tab)

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6 pointssosedoff7y ago5 comments

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Hi HN,

This is a small project that i've been meaning to launch for quite some time. Cronrunner is a job scheduler addon for Heroku applications, similar to standard scheduler but more powerful: you can define jobs with cron, set timezone, see history and receive error notifications. No need to setup webhooks or background jobs.

I've been using this addon internally for many months and finally decided to clean up and make a public site. The addon is not listed on the marketplace yet, i just need a bunch of test users to try it out, once it's done i can move it to the beta phase.

Feedback/ideas are highly appreciated!

uberneo7y ago

Clean execution !! Is there a functionality where you can create dependencies between jobs, means run job 2 only on the successful run of job 1.

Also are simply creating a cron entry based on whats inputted in frontend?

Would be interested to see the flow and that how you are generating and saving the logs

sosedoffOP7y ago

There is no dependency graph between the jobs, i think this would be the case for a specialized tool. Cronrunner is very simple when it comes to job definition.

As for cron jobs, there's a bit of validation involved. The jobs are not executed with the old cron daemon, im using cron-like implementation in my stack. The logs are produces by Heroku platform so im just saving those, no magic at all.

lpellegr7y ago

It seems your are competing with Google Cloud Scheduler:

https://cloud.google.com/scheduler/

Good luck!

sosedoffOP7y ago

I dont think there's any competition with Google here, CronRunner is tailored specifically for Heroku.

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5 comments

sosedoffOP7y ago

Hi HN,

Feedback/ideas are highly appreciated!

uberneo7y ago

Clean execution !! Is there a functionality where you can create dependencies between jobs, means run job 2 only on the successful run of job 1.

Also are simply creating a cron entry based on whats inputted in frontend?

Would be interested to see the flow and that how you are generating and saving the logs

sosedoffOP7y ago

There is no dependency graph between the jobs, i think this would be the case for a specialized tool. Cronrunner is very simple when it comes to job definition.

lpellegr7y ago

It seems your are competing with Google Cloud Scheduler:

https://cloud.google.com/scheduler/

Good luck!

sosedoffOP7y ago

I dont think there's any competition with Google here, CronRunner is tailored specifically for Heroku.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse