[nautical]

Hey cgenuity, Great to see the simplicity, I am working on a very similar product, launched couple of days back on HN (https://send.rest). Best of luck.

But have added couple of extra features in send.rest

1) Calling external APIs ( Think : pull data from Facebook while running this task in future and post data on my API or send SMS )

2) Reports and retries ( Try 3 times or send me sms its failing )

3) Recurrence ( Call this task every Monday 9:00 pm )

4) SMS and Emails comes along with them ( Send SMS or Email , pick any service as your backend )

I guess without some extra features it will be difficult to get a market acceptance.

[cgenuity]

Thank you, good luck to you as well!

I've found that with scheduling tasks for the future it's important to do a final check before fulfilling the action, whether it's sending an email, push notification, etc. You don't want to send a reminder for an event that has been deleted, for example. That is why I have decided to keep the scope small and let developers make the final decision there.

Reports and retries are definitely things that I think add value though, and I have plans to expand on that.

[nautical]

I also think there might be a market for this kind of product .. Great to see more people think on the same line .. Got some paid signups from last week also ..

You might be right about email/push, but it certainly comes handy if minimal config is required.

[ako]

There are already mature products in this market, e.g. RunMyJobs: https://rmj.redwood.com/

This started out as a distributed cron over 20 years ago, available as a saas product for a few years already.

[nodesocket]

With send.rest and using hook, can I specify a POST and POST data and custom request headers?

[nautical]

send.rest supports HAR1.2 calls, you can technically call any API