Cronhq
Cron jobs that actually run
Details
- External ID
- 1256588
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Cronhq
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 21, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 84
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9808638015822109
- Tags
- Open Source, SaaS, Developer Tools, GitHub
- Fetched at
- Sept. 21, 2026, 5 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 21, 2026, 5 p.m.
Description
Cron jobs fail in silence. Two servers run the same crontab and your billing job fires twice. A job dies and nobody notices for weeks. Cronhq is a scheduler built around one guarantee: exactly-once execution, enforced by Postgres locks — not best-effort. Around it: retries with backoff, HMAC-signed webhooks, heartbeat monitors for jobs we don't run, and alerts that fire once on failure and once on recovery. Rust on Postgres. MIT-licensed, self-hostable, same image we run. Free tier: 5 jobs.
Enrichment
- Theme
- database infrastructure and developer tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- managed cron job monitor and runner for developers
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A scheduled job runner using Postgres advisory locks (`pg_advisory_xact_lock`), webhooks with HMAC signatures, and exponential backoff retry loops can be built rapidly using standard backend frameworks.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 52 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #2 of 53 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 312 days after the earliest competitor.
- CronMon: What runs on this Mac and when? · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Vivere · Know your jobs are alive · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Pq · hn · 2026-02-22 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Quietfail · ph · 2026-09-29 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- ConfigClarity · hn · 2026-03-02 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Samast Cron · ph · 2026-09-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Jobman · hn · 2026-08-07 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- DBOS Java · hn · 2025-11-13 · 114 upvotes · similarity 0.40
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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