Cronhq

Not yet independently verified. The launch date rests only on the Product Hunt launch page (21 September 2026); the site names no company and has no terms or privacy policy. The claimed MIT licence and self-hosting point at github.com/cronhq/cronhq, which returned 404 on 22 September 2026, and the cronhq npm package in the install instructions does not exist on the npm registry. We will update this when it can be confirmed, and remove this note.

Cronhq is a hosted scheduler for developers who want scheduled HTTP calls without running their own cron server. You create a job through a REST API, the dashboard or a cronhq.yaml file synced by its command-line tool, giving a five-field cron expression, a time zone and the URL to call. Before each run a worker claims it with a Postgres lock, which the vendor says stops two workers firing the same slot; failed calls are retried with a per-job delay, and every attempt is logged with status code, duration and a truncated response body. Each request carries an HMAC-SHA256 signature using a per-job secret. Heartbeat monitors work the other way round: your job pings Cronhq, which alerts you when a ping is late. Alerts go to email or Slack on the third failure within an hour, and again on recovery. It is built in Rust on Postgres and is at version 0.1. Pricing: Free, $0, 5 active jobs, 5-minute minimum interval, 7 days of history; Developer, $5 a month, 20 jobs, 1-minute interval, 30 days; Pro, $10 a month, unlimited jobs, 30-second interval, 365 days. Annual billing (two months free) is arranged by email. The pricing page also offers a free, MIT-licensed self-hosted container, but the GitHub repository it links to returned 404 today and the npm package named in its install command is not on the npm registry, so neither the licence nor self-hosting can be checked. The site publishes no terms, privacy policy or company name, and does not say where data is held.