[mikece]

In many cases, paying for a service you could do yourself is more about having a throat to choke in case something goes wrong. I'm sure I could figure out cron/crontab if I took the time to learn about it but that's not my core skillset so paying $5/month is actually rather cheap for me (especially when the cost is passed along to a client who is less skilled at these things than I am).

[Wronnay]

Cron-job.org uses a similar interface and is much older than this project.

And if you don't wanna write crontab syntax, then there are other free alternatives like IFTTT

[pkaye]

And what happens when this service you depend on gets shut down for whatever reason?

[mikece]

I get to bill the client for moving them to another service.

[quickthrower2]

So best to choose one that's gonna shut down soon :-).