FastScheduler
Decorator-first Python task scheduler, async support
Details
- External ID
- 46601631
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- FastScheduler
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Jan. 13, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 46
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7832674571805006
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
Hi! I've built this because I kept reaching for Celery for simple scheduled tasks and it felt like overkill. I just needed "run this function every hour" or "daily at 9am", not distributed workers.So it's decorators for scheduling (@scheduler.every(5).minutes, @scheduler.daily.at("09:00")), state saves to JSON so jobs survive restarts, and there's an optional FastAPI dashboard if you want to see what's running.No Redis, no message broker, runs in-process with your app. Trade-off is it's single process only — if you need distributed workers, stick with Celery.
Enrichment
- Theme
- workplace productivity and workflow automation
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- python task scheduler with async support
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a lightweight Python scheduling library wrapping Python's built-in asyncio event loop and decorators.
Discussion
14 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: APScheduler, Celery, crontab, Kubernetes cronjobs
Concerns raised: Scheduler API/dashboard authorization not documented, Authentication/security middleware examples missing, Why not use established prior art like crontab or Kubernetes, Adds operational complexity vs. simpler alternatives
Feature requests: UI for defining jobs without code, User-defined job parameters via form interface, Edit scheduled jobs functionality, Pre-built dashboard with job creation forms
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 73 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #17 of 74 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 70 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Claude Code Scheduler · hn · 2026-01-14 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- ScheduleBuilder.dev · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- RealGoals · ph · 2026-09-23 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- Timezone App · hn · 2026-03-29 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.38
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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