402cron
Signed HTTP scheduling for AI agents, paid via x402
Details
- External ID
- 1248823
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- 402cron
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 13, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7405388069275176
- Tags
- Developer Tools
- Fetched at
- Sept. 15, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 15, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
Schedule signed HTTP requests for AI agents through REST or MCP. 402cron delivers to verified HTTPS endpoints on UTC cron schedules, with HMAC signatures and delivery history. Prepay in USDC on Base through x402; credits are charged per delivery attempt and never expire. No subscription.
Enrichment
- Theme
- payments, billing, and wallet infrastructure
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- scheduled http execution for autonomous ai agents
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial While the web dashboard and REST/MCP interfaces are simple, reliable distributed cron infrastructure combined with on-chain crypto payment verification (x402 protocol / USDC on Base) requires robust backend engineering.
What it would actually take: A production version requires a resilient distributed scheduler (e.g., using Redis BullMQ, Temporal, or a custom Kafka/Postgres job queue) ensuring at-least-once signed HTTP deliveries across UTC schedules with retry policies. It also needs an automated listener/indexing service for Base blockchain transactions to credit accounts trustlessly upon payment detection. The stack would typically be Go or Node.js with distributed workers and cryptographic signing modules for HMAC headers.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 32 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #8 of 33 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 312 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Stablecoin-Payment-Gateway · github · 2026-09-22 · 193 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- I put an AI agent on a $7/month VPS with IRC as its transport layer · hn · 2026-03-26 · 340 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- OQP · hn · 2026-04-13 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- Apideck MCP Server · ph · 2026-05-13 · 178 upvotes · similarity 0.35
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- No other launches for this product.
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