Daymon
Open-source app that gives Claude scheduled tasks
Details
- External ID
- 47048705
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Daymon
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Feb. 17, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 6
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.28099730458221023
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- developer tools for ai agents
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Agent / copilot
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- scheduled tasks for claude
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Daymon is a local daemon or task scheduler (cron/systemd/Node) that triggers scripted prompts to Anthropic's Claude API at specified intervals and logs or acts on the responses.
Discussion
7 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: OpenClaw, Bash script with cron + Claude CLI
Concerns raised: Anthropic could build this natively and kill the project, Risk of account ban for using Claude CLI this way, Conflicts with Anthropic's business model (session limits drive Pro to Max upgrades), Mac only, Linux not yet supported, Early stage, solo developer
Feature requests: Linux support, Cross-platform availability beyond Mac
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 383 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #280 of 384 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 105 days after the earliest competitor.
- A desktop app for managing Claude Code sessions · hn · 2026-03-12 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- ClaudePanel · github · 2026-09-23 · 222 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Wallfacer · hn · 2026-08-06 · 36 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- MulmoClaude · hn · 2026-05-20 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Claude Code Scheduled Tasks · ph · 2026-03-22 · 465 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- claudeq · github · 2026-09-14 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- TryPost · hn · 2026-05-25 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Claude Code Scheduler · hn · 2026-01-14 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.48
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a agent / copilot tool for Agriculture yet.